Date live: 13/08/2026
Business Area: Risk
Area of Expertise: Risk and Quantitative Analytics
Contract: Permanent
Reference Code: JR-0000125603
Role Specific Responsibilities
- Provide independent oversight, review, and challenge of technology strategy, architecture, infrastructure, resilience, engineering, and technology change activities across Barclays.
- Deliver risk-based assessment and challenge of major technology initiatives, transformation programmes, and strategic investment decisions.
- Lead thematic reviews, deep dives, and cross-functional assessments to identify systemic technology risks, control weaknesses, and emerging risk trends.
- Provide independent risk opinions on significant technology incidents, remediation programmes, resilience issues, and material risk matters.
- Influence improvements in technology risk management through engagement with senior technology and business stakeholders, governance forums, and risk committees.
- Monitor external technology developments, threats, industry practices, and regulatory expectations to identify emerging risks and recommend appropriate actions.
Role Specific Requirements
- Significant experience in technology risk, technology operations, engineering, architecture, resilience, infrastructure, or technology governance within a large, complex organisation.
- Strong understanding of modern technology risk domains including cloud adoption, technology change, operational resilience, third-party technology dependencies, infrastructure risk, and software delivery risk.
- Demonstrated ability to provide credible challenge and strategic advice to CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, Chief Architects, and other senior technology leaders.
- Proven track record of identifying emerging technology risks and translating technical issues into clear business and risk implications for executive audiences.
- Experience assessing the risk implications of large-scale technology transformation, modernisation, and strategic change programmes.
Ability to operate as an independent senior individual contributor, exercising sound judgement, influencing without authority, and delivering outcomes across a complex stakeholder environment
Purpose of the role
To provide independent review and challenge of the Operational Risk elements of particular risk categories across the bank. Ensuring they are carried out in accordance with Barclays Operational Risk Framework, Policies, and Standards
Accountabilities
- Risk identification and proactive risk management, identifying interconnected, horizon and emerging risks to assist the business in understanding, managing and mitigating the right risks in line with their business strategy and objectives.
- Analysis of operational risk data to identify trends, patterns, and emerging risks.
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Director - Technology Risk - Barclays in Glasgow employer: OpenTalent
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