Service Delivery-Strategic Adoption Execution

Embark on a Transformative Journey as a Service Delivery – Strategic Adoption Execution – VP. At Barclays, our vision is clear -to redefine the future of banking and craft innovative solutions. This role is part of the Strategic Adoption team, which collaborates closely with the Investment Banking business unit. It is pivotal in driving our infrastructure modernization efforts. You will help facilitate legacy technology remediation, reduce infrastructure risks, and lower business unit costs by streamlining our infrastructure estate and eliminating redundant products. Success will be achieved through close partnership with application development teams, establishing governance, providing prioritization guidance, and assisting with issue resolution.

To be successful in the Service Delivery – Strategic Adoption Execution - VP role, you should have:

• Proficiency in data analysis and a validated ability to extract insights to facilitate discussions with application contacts

• Solid platform infrastructure knowledge in products such as operating systems, databases, and/or middleware

• Knowledge in driving infrastructure estate optimization and/or legacy (technical debt) product remediation

• Experience establishing governance structures to help prioritize opportunities for technical debt remediation and strategic adoption by application development teams

• Proficiency in Python, SQL, Jira, and Microsoft Power Automate tools

Other highly valued skills include:

• Considerable communication and negotiation skills, with experience influencing stakeholder strategic thinking

• Ample knowledge of containerization to support technical debt remediation and migration efforts

• AWS product knowledge to influence technical debt remediation and/or strategic adoption

• Middleware product knowledge to guide technical debt remediation and strategic product adoption

• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel for data analysis

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

This role is located in Whippany, NJ office.

Minimum Salary: $170,000

Maximum Salary: $230,000

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above include only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

Barclays employees are eligible for a suite of competitive and generous employee benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and other paid leave for qualifying circumstances.

This position is eligible for an incentive award.

Purpose of the role

To support the implementation of major changes and improvements to the organisations IT service management practices by driving strategic initiatives to modernize, transform and future-proof how the bank delivers and supports technology services. 

Accountabilities

• Establishment of KPIs to measure the success and impact of specific transformation programmes, and actively monitor KPIs to identify the ongoing effectiveness of the initiative, improvement areas with the IT service management framework, and mitigate any potential issues.
• Analysis of emerging IT service management tools and platforms to discover if they can support the banks transformation goals and future needs.
• Manage the selection and seamless implementation of new tools and platforms into the IT service management processes, while overseeing the migration of data from legacy systems, to improve system efficiency and reduce manual workload.
• Development and communication of change management strategic initiatives, visions and goals through workshops, sessions, and various communication channels to highlight the benefits and impact of modernising, transforming, and future-proofing the way the bank delivers and supports its technology services.
• Prioritisation of the bank’s initiatives based on their impact on the bank’s goals, resource availability and feasibility, and develop and monitoring a clear execution plan for each transformation project to ensure a successful implementation.

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.