Technology Risk & Control Lead

Role Summary

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Technology Risk & Control Lead , where you will drive the oversight and management of technology risk and controls, ensuring compliance across cyber security, technology, and regulatory frameworks.

You will identify and assess technology vulnerabilities, oversee remediation plans, and provide clear risk insight and reporting to senior leaders.

Leading a team of five risk professionals across Knutsford and Northampton, you will support the delivery of risk and control metrics, partner with delivery teams to manage risk effectively, and help strengthen the bank’s overall technology risk and control environment.

• Key Qualifications
• Proven experience leading and developing teams, with the ability to effectively manage performance and drive results.
• Strong understanding and knowledge of aspects of Enterprise Risk Management Framework (ERMF), Operational Risk Framework (ORF), and Control Frameworks.
• A solid understanding of core IT infrastructure components, including Linux or Windows Server OS, MS SQL or Oracle databases, networks, load balancers, and storage systems.
• A collaborative mindset, with experience supporting business stakeholders and working seamlessly with technical teams across multiple geographies.
• Ability to influence at senior management level and apply judgement to balance risk versus business interest whilst ensuring compliance with all relevant policies and standards.
• Additional Highly Valued Skills
• Experience working in a Risk & Control type role or team within a Financial Services environment, with the ability to demonstrate a risk‑management mindset.
• Possess Technology Risk & Control Management industry standard qualifications (e. g., ISACA).
• Strong Excel skills including extensive experience in managing large quantities of data, pivots, formulas, and lookups.
• Effective written and oral communication skills, with the ability to present credibly to senior stakeholders.
• Key Accountabilities
• Development of strategic direction for risk, including the implementation of up‑to‑date methodologies and processes.
• Management of the risk department, overseeing risk colleagues and their performance, implementing risk priorities and objectives, and ensuring department efficiency and effectiveness.
• Relationship management of risk stakeholders, identifying relevant stakeholders and maintaining the quality of external third‑party services.
• Adherence to the Risk policy, standards and frameworks, and maintaining a robust control environment.
• Vice President Expectations
• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change.

Plan resources, budgets and policies; manage and maintain policies and processes; deliver continuous improvements and elevate breaches of policies and procedures.

• If managing a team, define jobs and responsibilities, plan for the department’s future needs and operations, counsel employees on performance, and, where appropriate, lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, aligning strategic and tactical priorities, balancing short‑ and long‑term goals, and ensuring budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of behaviours that 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.

• For an individual contributor, be a subject‑matter expert within your discipline and guide technical direction.

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.

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, supporting 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 organisational functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, providing business‑aligned support to keep up to speed with business activity and 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.
• Base Locations

Knutsford (Radbroke Hall) or Northampton (Pavilion Drive).

Purpose of the Role

To support the Risk Function in delivering its objective of safeguarding the bank’s financial and operational stability by proactively identifying, assessing, mitigating, and monitoring risks across various business units and activities.

Values and Mindset

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass that helps 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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