Lead Business Analyst / Project Manager

Join us at Barclays as a Lead Business Analyst / Project Manager, where you'll shape and drive high-impact programmes including our GenAI Strategic Tool, Appian Centre of Excellence, and WatsonX governance. In this role, you'll bridge business strategy and technology delivery—translating complex requirements into actionable solutions that accelerate AI innovation, automation, and regulatory compliance across the organisation.

To be successful as a Lead Business Analyst / Project Manager, you should have experience with:

• Proven experience in business analysis and requirements engineering on regulatory and transformation change projects, with the ability to elicit, document, and validate complex business and technical requirements.
• Strong stakeholder management and executive-level communication skills, including the ability to facilitate workshops, present options appraisals, and articulate impact assessments to senior leadership.
• Solid understanding of the SDLC lifecycle and Agile methodologies, with hands-on experience writing user stories, defining acceptance criteria, and supporting sprint planning and backlog prioritisation.
  
  

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Experience performing business analysis across a portfolio of projects, preferably in technology, AI/ML, or process automation domains.
• Prior exposure to Appian or similar workflow automation platforms, including process mapping, data modelling, and solution design.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to conduct gap analyses, map current- and future-state processes, and define measurable success criteria.
• Ability to operate effectively in a matrix structure, influencing without direct authority and acting as a trusted advisor between business, technology, and compliance teams.
  
  

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in the role, such as Risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, and digital and technology—as well as job-specific technical skills including requirements management, process analysis, data literacy, and benefits realisation.

This role is based in Northampton.

Purpose of the role

To manage change projects that help the organisation achieve its strategic objectives, while ensuring that projects are delivered on time, within budget, in control and in compliance with regulatory requirements and internal policies and procedures. 

Accountabilities

• Management of change projects within the organisation, ensuring that they are delivered on time, within scope, budget, and to the required quality standards.
• Development and management of project plans that outline the scope, objectives, timelines, and resource requirements for change projects.
• Communication with stakeholders, including senior management, project teams, and external partners, to ensure that they are informed about project progress and that their needs and expectations are being met.
• Management of project teams, ensuring that they are properly resourced and that they have the necessary skills and expertise to deliver on project objectives.
• Management of project budgets, ensuring that projects are delivered within the agreed budget.
• Creation of reports on project progress to ensure that proposed solutions are delivered on time and within budget.
• Management of project risks, ensuring that risk, assumptions, issues and dependencies are identified, assessed, and mitigated as necessary.
• Facilitation of change management activities, including training and communication, to ensure that change projects are successfully implemented and embedded in the organisation.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
• 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 lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders 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.