Executive Enablement Lead - Vice President

Join us as an Executive Enablement Lead- Vice President at Barclays where you will spearhead the evolution of our infrastructure and deployment pipelines, driving innovation and operational excellence. You will harness cutting-edge technology to build and manage robust, scalable, and secure infrastructure, ensuring seamless delivery of our digital solutions.

To be successful as an Executive Enablement Lead- Vice President, you should have experience with:

• Partner with senior executives to translate strategic priorities into actionable plans.

• Drive execution of key initiatives across business units, ensuring alignment with corporate goals.

• Prepare executive-level presentations, dashboards, and reports for internal and external stakeholders (the responsibility of data provision will remain with business owners; but the candidate will have to coordinate and escalate where needed).

• Optimize workflows, meeting cadences, and decision-making processes for leadership.

• Manage executive communications, including briefing documents, talking points, and stakeholder updates.

• Coordinate cross-functional projects and ensure timely delivery of outcomes.

• Collaborate to provide data-driven insights for executive decision-making.

• Monitor and report KPIs and business performance metrics, flagging risks and opportunities proactively.

• Support creation of business cases, investment proposals, and strategic reviews.

• Act as a liaison between executives and internal/external stakeholders.

• Facilitate alignment across teams, ensuring clarity of objectives and accountability.

• Manage sensitive and high-impact communications with discretion and professionalism.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Support change management efforts, including communication plans and stakeholder engagement.

• Assist in rollout of transformation programs, CoEs, or strategic initiatives.

• Ensure change management is completed in a controlled and robust manner, with rigorous check-and-challenge.

• Act as the senior contact and escalation point for all on change initiatives and governance exercises.

• Define jobs and responsibilities, and plan for the future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes.

• Manage talent development, succession planning, and diversity initiatives.

• Workforce planning, demand forecasting and budgeting, cost saves.

• Maintain rigor around hiring controls, early career demand, inrole promotion, diversity, attrition etc.

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

The role is based out of Noida.

Purpose of the role

To manage the efficient delivery of large-scale technical projects and capabilities across the bank and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to understand their needs and expectations throughout the software product lifecycle, adhering to agreed time, budget and quality requirements. 

Accountabilities

• Management of the delivery, resource allocation and improvement of complex technical project capabilities across the bank using Agile/Scrum methodologies for planning, stand-ups, demos, retrospectives and the execution of sprints.
• Collaboration with customers and business teams to manage and implement customer trails to support the proposal of technically feasible solutions, and effort and timeline expectations.
• Collaboration with software engineers, quality teams, product managers and other engineering teams to deliver high-quality products and features through the software project lifecycle aligned to the banks objectives, regulation and security policies.
• Identification, assessment, and mitigation of risks associated with technical projects to prepare the bank for potential challenges.
• Management of change requests and communication with stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.
• Management of vendor relations involved in technical projects to ensure they deliver according to agreed terms.
• Stay abreast of the latest industry technology trends and technologies, to evaluate and adopt new approaches to improving deliver outcomes and to foster a culture of continuous learning, technical excellence and growth.

Vice President Expectations

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures..
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others..
• OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.