Portfolio Governance

Embark your transformative journey with Barclays as a Portfolio Governance, where you’ll play a pivotal role as Risk and Control expert and drive the business forward in helping our customers. You will own the Test Automation within APACME across multiple technology platforms and ensure that the developments align to the overall Barclays technology strategy. Your role will be responsible to ensure that solutions balance the delivery, technology and enterprise impacts and enable adherence of all resiliency, observability, supportability, security and operational readiness requirements. You will also need to take ownership for Tech Governance Lead and strengthening efficiency and quality in relation to the work you do.

To be successful in this role, you should have:

• Design, implement, and continuously enhance the Technology Governance Framework aligned with enterprise risk, security, compliance, and audit mandates.

• Lead governance routines for Change Management, Access Control, Asset Inventory, and Policy Compliance.

• Partner with global and regional teams to ensure local and cross-border compliance with APACME regulations such as MAS, HKMA, RBI, SAMA, UAECB etc.

• Oversee technology policy adherence, define key control indicators (KCIs), and track governance metrics via dashboards and executive reporting.

• Coordinate internal and external audits, regulatory inspections, and risk assessments, ensuring timely closure of findings and actions.

• Handson experience on JIRA, DORA Metrics, Spring Insight

• Support strategic technology initiatives with governance oversight during product launches, cloud migration, third-party onboarding, etc.

• Lead forums to communicate risk posture, control health, and remediation status to technology and business leaders.

• Familiarity with developing and managing control libraries, dashboards, KCIs, KRIs, and governance packs.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Experience in governance across cloud adoption, data privacy, third-party risk, and agile/DevOps environments.

• Hands-on exposure to tools such as ServiceNow.

• Exposure to regional cybersecurity and operational resilience regulations (e.g., DORA, MAS TRM Guidelines, UAE IRR Framework).

• Ability to operate across onshore-offshore models, managing governance for third-party vendors and captive units.

• Strong understanding of banking products and services across Corporate Payments.

You may be assessed on the 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.

This role is based in our Pune office.

Purpose of the role

To support the portfolio in the delivery of  successful change, by ensuring that processes and practices are aligned with relevant controls and governance standards and that all activity is aligned with the strategic objectives of the business area / organisation.

Accountabilities

• Facilitate portfolio prioritisation, ensuring the portfolio is compliant with the established control framework, including oversight of controls and standards.
• Support the effective governance of the portfolio, helping establish and operate effective Portfolio Governance that enables quality, data driven decision making, ensuring executive reporting is fit for purpose and timely.
• Monitor portfolio performance, including tracking of programme and project progress, identification of thematic portfolio risks and issues, and reporting on portfolio status to senior management and key stakeholders.
• Facilitate the management of the portfolio Book of Work, prioritisation and dependencies of change initiatives, considering factors like resource availability, stakeholder buy-in, and potential risks.
• Oversight of change delivery to ensure alignment with relevant policies and standards, driving consistent, robust controls data; monitoring indicators of control adherence, acting to remediate any weaknesses in the controls; and identifying and implementing actions to drive greater maturity against key control indicators.
• Review, resolve, manage and escalate portfolio risks and issues, challenging where appropriate and actively supporting the resolution of variances as necessary.
• Engage and influence all stakeholders to help them to understand their responsibilities and fulfil them effectively through clear, timely communication and well facilitated portfolio management processes.
• Support an environment of effective delivery by empowering portfolio management resources, utilising data led thinking to inform decisions, leverage expertise, and drive accountability and transparency.
• Operate as a source of best practice guidance and expertise, to ensure consistent excellence around controls, and  governance (including training) is embedded across the portfolio.

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.