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Date live: Apr. 21, 2025

Business Area: Group Technology Service Management

Area of Expertise: Technology

Reference Code: JR-0000037239

Contract: Permanent

Join us as a Service Recovery Manager at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionise our digital offerings, ensuring unparalleled customer experiences.As a part of the team, you will deliver technology stack, using strong analytical and problem solving skills to understand the business requirements and deliver quality solutions. You'll be working on complex technical problems that will involve detailed analytical skills and analysis. This will be done in conjunction with fellow engineers, business analysts and business stakeholders. 

To be successful as a Service Recovery Manager you should have experience with:

Essential Skills:

  • Experience in handing Major Incident is must with ability to drive complex Major Incident calls.
  • Strong Documentation and Business Communication skills.
  • Business and Technology stakeholder management.
  • Strong understanding of Problem and Change Management.
  • ITIL Service Management framework.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

  • Good understanding of technology
  • Problem solving with analytical mindset
  • Ability to drive MIM calls in high-pressure situation

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.

This role is based out of Pune location.

Purpose of the role

To mitigate the impact of unexpected incidents by identifying, responding and resolving disruptions that threaten the banks IT services, operations and technological infrastructure through effective decision making and successful resource delegation. 

Accountabilities

  • Development, implementation and management of major incident management programmes.
  • Execution of responses to reported incidents from various channels including email, phone and monitoring systems, prioritised by its potential impact to the bank's IT systems, and provide regular status updates to affected stakeholders.
  • Analysis of logs, system data and user reports to identify the root cause of incidents and determine the necessary course of action to resolve or follow escalation protocols to escalate incidents to the relevant team or individual for assistance.
  • Execution of regular tests and simulations to test response procedures in the event of an incident.
  • Documentation and analysis of past incident details, the steps to resolution and lessons learnt from each case to support the identification of recurring issues in the future, implement preventive measures to minimize future occurrence and to build a comprehensive knowledge bases of known issues.

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.

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