Technology Governance Lead

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Join Barclays as a Technology Governance Lead, supporting around 800 resources across six locations. You will oversee the IFC Tech Governance function, managing programme financials, workforce planning, coordination with the central programme team and collaboration with technology tower leads. The role spans all four control pillars: CDD, Screening, TM and IIE, as well as the Tech horizontal, ensuring portfolio management aligns with governance standards and strategic objectives.

The Integrated Financial Crime (IFC) portfolio is a multi-faceted Financial Crime programme of change delivered via over 20 programmes to create a holistic, risk-based and effective Financial Crime environment, strengthen robustness and enhance automation of Financial Crime processes, develop and strengthen our skills and capabilities across all lines of defence and empower our partners, colleagues and customers to identify and prevent Financial Crime by raising awareness of the risks.

To excel in this role, you will need the following:

Proven experience in overseeing Technology balance sheet for a large organization, including software capitalization, amortization, and impairment.

Strong ability to forecast project requirements, including financial planning, resource allocation, hiring, licensing, and coordination of professional services.

Demonstrated success in tracking and optimising strategic resource utilisation to reduce costs, enhance value delivery, and build organisational capacity.

Other highly valued skills include:

Proven experience in managing financials and resourcing plan for multiple strategic initiatives and transformation programmes, consistently delivering projects on budget and within defined scope.

Ability to identify and implement cost-efficiency opportunities, such as MSP-to-permanent staff conversions.

Experience in preparing financial reports and budget documentation for senior management and governance forums.

You may be assessed on the 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.

The successful candidate will be based in Knutsford (Radbroke Hall).

Purpose of the role

To lead the portfolio management team in the delivery of successful projects, while ensuring that portfolio management processes and practices are aligned with controls and governance standards and that projects are aligned with the organisation’s strategic objectives.