Programme Manager
Glasgow
As a Barclays, Programme Manager, you will be part of Consumer Risk, Finance, Treasury & Liquidity Technology (CRFTL) who are accountable and responsible for the effective management and ongoing development of a number of key applications, systems and platforms within RFT. You will work alongside extremely experienced team which compose of all experts in their individual fields.
Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality, and innovation behind us. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.
Working Flexibly
We’re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognises and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers’ and clients’ needs. Whether you have family commitments or you’re a carer, or whether you need study time or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life. If you would like some flexibility, then please discuss this with the hiring manager, and your request will be reviewed subject to business needs.
We are currently in the early stages of implementing a hybrid working environment, which means that many colleagues spend part of their working hours at home and part in the office, depending on the nature of the role they are in. We’re flexible on how this works and it may continue to change and evolve. Depending on your team, typically this means that colleagues spend a minimum of between 20% to 60% of their time in the office, which could be over a week, a month or a quarter. However, some colleagues may choose to spend more time in the office over a typical period than their role type requires. We also have a flexible working process where, subject to business needs, all colleagues globally are able to request work patterns to reflect their personal circumstances Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager
What will you be doing?
• Delivering and managing three plus complex projects simultaneously, Budget typically > £1.5m. of projects to plan, budget and agreed quality and governance standards
- Leading project teams engaged throughout the full delivery lifecycle
- Delivering projects regarding the business strategy from business case through to initiation, requirement analysis, design, build, testing, implementation and closure
- Managing the project end to end including the IT elements of delivery
- Working on Experian programme to successfully complete of the migrating 300 use cases by partnering with projects manages across the bank that will implement the changes
- Working with management to help define and implement aspects of the strategy and vision
- Identifying, assessing and managing project risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies, escalating as appropriate via the agreed governance framework
What we’re looking for:
• Proven track record of providing good leadership and direction; delivering complex technology solutions on time, within budget, to agreed scope
- Excellent stakeholder management at all levels
- Experience of working with Technology to deliver complex projects; across multiple business areas, functions and locations
- Experience managing direct reports through a matrix structure
Skills that will help you in the role:
• Delivering large scale programmes in a financial or regulated environment
- Experience working in an agile project team
- Project management Qualification and/or equivalent training/experience
- Consumer Credit Risk experience and knowledge acquired with a leading bank and/ or consultancy
Where will you be working?
Our new state-of-the-art Campus, right in the heart of Glasgow is a hub of creative collaboration. A place where everyone can bring their true selves to work and reach their full potential. Home to 5,000 of our colleagues, our Tradeston campus will support the community in more ways than one - by creating thousands of new career opportunities and celebrating local artists. A short walk from Central Station on the south of the Clyde, it will be a key location for the Barclays business that will deepen our ties with the city and its communities.
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