Head of Command Centres India

Key Accountabilities:

• Fully accountable for the delivery of Command Centre Services from India, taking functional direction from the Global Head and striving to improve service offerings and integrate them into the global operating model.
• Provide thought leadership for the development of the group-wide Command Centre
• Manage and develop team of individual contributors and command centre managers
• Establish relationships with key stakeholders within GTSM, GTIS, and across the technology organization to create a go-to Command & Control function for IT Operations.
• Demonstrate financial and business management awareness of technologies that underpin the Command Centre.
• Manage costs, demand, and resource capacity for team resources
• Own and mature major incidents management processes and procedures

Essential Qualifications/Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering
• Responsibility for delivering and managing a service in a technology context
• Experience managing large teams (50+) and budgets (£5m+).
• Proven track record of leading and delivering enterprise change (specific examples required).
• Strong knowledge of observability technologies and systems monitoring
• Understanding of core ITSM process disciplines - Incident, Problem, Change

Preferred Qualifications/Experience:

• Industry experience with Application and Infrastructure technologies like Java, Mainframe, Database etc.
• Production Support experience at a large scale (specific examples required)
• Postgraduate qualification or equivalent industry experience.
• Banking/financial services experience.
• External certification – ITIL Certification.

Purpose of the role

To manage the IT Services department and set the strategic direction, provide support to the bank's senior management team, and to manage IT Service risk across the organisation management of IT Services to support the banks operations and representing Technology service performance with senior stakeholders and managing IT service risk across the organisation.   

Accountabilities

• Development of strategic direction for IT Services, including the implementation of up-to- date methodologies and processes.
• Management of the IT Services department, including oversight of IT Services colleagues and their performance, implementation of departmental goals and objectives, oversight of department efficiency and effectiveness.  .
• Relationship management of IT Services stakeholders, including identifying relevant stakeholders, and maintenance of the quality of external third party services.
• Development and implementation of policies and procedures for IT Services, implementation and adherence of control targets and standards, policies and procedures for IT Services, managing adherence to group SLAs and controls associated with core technology production activities in incident, problem, and change.
• Management of IT Services risk, including identification of potential IT Services risks, development of strategies to mitigate those risks, and maintenance of alignment between the bank’s change and compliance functions.  .
• Monitoring the financial performance of the IT Services department, including revenue, profitability, and cost control, driving value from any commercial agreements, strong management of any directly controlled costs etc.
• Management of IT Services projects, including driving successful research and related product launches, and deliverance of integrated solutions to clients.
• Effectively monitor and maintain the bank’s critical technology infrastructure and resolve more complex technical issues, whilst minimising disruption to operations.

Director Expectations

• To manage a business function, providing significant input to function wide strategic initiatives. Contribute to and influence policy and procedures for the function and plan, manage and consult on multiple complex and critical strategic projects, which may be business wide..
• They manage the direction of a large team or sub-function, leading other people managers and embedding a performance culture aligned to the values of the business. Or for an individual contributor, they lead organisation wide projects and act as deep technical expert and thought leader, identifying new ways of working and collaborating cross functionally. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made outside of own function, offering significant input to function wide strategic initiatives.
• Manage, coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub-function.
• Escalates breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
• Foster and guide compliance, ensure regulations are observed that relevant processes in place to facilitate adherence.
• Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to both monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays, when appropriate.
• Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division / Group to achieve the overall business objectives.
• Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline alongside up-to-date relevant sector / functional knowledge, and insight into external market developments / initiatives.
• Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in often complex/ sensitive situations.
• Exercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions or recommendations within own area.
• Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally.
• Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/ businesses divisions.
• Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division.

All Senior 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.

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.