Join Barclays as an Azure Product Delivery Lead, where you’ll play a key role in driving the successful delivery of technical programs, with a primary focus on Azure cloud solutions. In this role, you’ll leverage your expertise in public cloud technologies (especially Azure) to ensure that product delivery is aligned with industry standards and best practices, ultimately driving innovation and excellence within the organization.
To be successful, you should have:
- Proven experience delivering technical programs with a strong background in public cloud technologies (Azure).
- Hands-on experience with JIRA and Agile methodologies to lead and manage delivery teams.
- A strong track record of delivering projects or programs with substantial security controls and compliance standards.
Highly valued skills include:
- Excellent stakeholder management across both technical and business domains, ensuring seamless communication and alignment.
- Solid experience in Azure delivery management, with a deep understanding of platform capabilities and best practices.
- Azure certifications.
You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in this role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.
This role is based in Knutsford and Glasgow.
Purpose of the role:
To lead and manage engineering teams, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and support to ensure the delivery of high-quality software solutions, driving technical excellence, fostering a culture of innovation, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to align technical decisions with business objectives.
Accountabilities:
- Lead engineering teams effectively, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture to achieve project goals and meet organizational objectives.
- Oversee timelines, team allocation, risk management, and task prioritization to ensure the successful delivery of solutions within scope, time, and budget.
- Mentor and support team members' professional growth, conduct performance reviews, provide actionable feedback, and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Evaluate and enhance engineering processes, tools, and methodologies to increase efficiency, streamline workflows, and optimize team productivity.
- Collaborate with business partners, product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions and ensure a cohesive approach to product development.
- Enforce technology standards, facilitate peer reviews, and implement robust testing practices to ensure the delivery of high-quality solutions.
Vice President Expectations:
- Contribute to 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, define jobs and responsibilities, plan for the department’s future needs and operations, counsel employees on performance, and contribute to employee pay decisions/changes.
- If the position has leadership responsibilities, demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard.
- 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.
- Collaborate with other areas of work, for business-aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and strategies.
- Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives.
- Seek out, build, and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders to accomplish key business objectives.
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.