Senior 3rd Line Desktop Support Engineer in Knutsford

Hackajob is collaborating with Barclays to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. Join us as a Senior 3rd Line Desktop Support Engineer, to help shape the future of our end‑user technology environment and ensure a resilient, secure, and scalable desktop service for colleagues across the organisation. This role acts as a senior point of technical authority within the 3rd Line support function, providing specialised guidance on escalated issue resolution, influencing engineering roadmaps, and strengthening stability and compliance across our desktop estate.

To be successful as a Senior 3rd Line Desktop Support Engineer, you should have experience with:

• Advanced MS Intune and Group Policy configuration, including the ability to design, implement and optimise policies at scale.
• In‑depth knowledge of Windows Operating Systems (Win11) and associated security tooling such as desktop anti‑virus and encryption technologies.
• Practical experience with M365 services, including proficient use of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE).
• Advanced device performance monitoring and diagnostic capabilities, with the ability to identify systemic issues and recommend improvements.

Some Other Highly Valued Skills May Include:

• Working knowledge of MacOS, enabling support across a diverse endpoint landscape.
• Solid understanding of laptop/desktop hardware configuration and troubleshooting.
• Familiarity with ITIL processes and the ability to apply industry‑standard service practices in an enterprise environment.

This role will be based in Knutsford.

Purpose of the role

To effectively monitor and maintain the bank’s critical technology infrastructure and resolve more complex technical issues, whilst minimising disruption to operations.

Accountabilities

• Provision of technical support for the service management function to resolve more complex issues for a specific client or group of clients.
• Develop the support model and service offering to improve the service to customers and stakeholders.
• Execution of preventative maintenance tasks on hardware and software and utilisation of monitoring tools/metrics to identify, prevent and address potential issues and ensure optimal performance.
• Maintenance of a knowledge base containing detailed documentation of resolved cases for future reference, self‑service opportunities and knowledge sharing.
• Analysis of system logs, error messages and user reports to identify the root causes of hardware, software and network issues, and providing a resolution to these issues by fixing or replacing faulty hardware components, reinstalling software, or applying configuration changes.
• Automation, monitoring enhancements, capacity management, resiliency, business continuity management, front office specific support and stakeholder management.
• Identification and remediation or raising, through appropriate process, of potential service impacting risks and issues.
• Proactively assess support activities implementing automations where appropriate to maintain stability and drive efficiency.
• Actively tune monitoring tools, thresholds, and alerting to ensure issues are known when they occur.

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.
• 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.
• 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.