Technology Resilience Lead

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Join Barclays as a Technology Resilience Lead within the Tesco Resilience team. This role is responsible for technology resilience capabilities, including the implementation of resilience controls, embedding resilience-by-design principles, and partnering with change and architecture teams to ensure resilience considerations are integrated into technology initiatives from the outset. Acting as a trusted first line challenge and assurance partner, you will work closely with technology and business stakeholders to ensure compliance with resilience standards, assess the impact of platform, supplier, and technology changes, and provide effective check-and-challenge on resilience risks and controls.

The role requires a strong understanding of technology resilience concepts, regulatory expectations, operational resilience, and dependency management, ensuring the bank remains protected and resilient in the face of change and evolving risks.

• Extensive experience in technology recovery, resilience-by-design, recovery readiness assessments, and resilience testing across critical business services and technology platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and coordinate cross-functional teams spanning Technology, Cyber Security, Business Operations, and Third-Party providers, delivering effective challenge, risk oversight, executive-level engagement, and stakeholder influence to achieve resilience objectives.
• Strong knowledge of cyber recovery strategies, incident containment, recovery tooling, disaster recovery practices, and industry-recognised cyber resilience frameworks.

• Solid understanding of third-party and supplier resilience, including concentration risk, dependency mapping, critical supplier recovery planning, and supply chain resilience management.
• Experience developing resilience reporting, key metrics, dashboards, data analysis, and technology tooling to provide assurance, support decision-making, and drive continuous improvement.
• Proven ability to design, facilitate, test, and enhance response and recovery capabilities, including severe-but-plausible scenario exercises, crisis simulations, and compliance with operational resilience regulatory requirements.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

The successful candidate can be based in Edinburgh (South Gyle Crescent) or Glasgow Campus #Tescobanktechnology.

To develop, implement, and maintain an effective resilience strategy and Operational Recovery Planning and Incident Management framework aligned to industry leading standards and controls and regulatory expectations, to enable the bank to respond and recover important business services to severe but plausible scenarios, and minimise the impact to customers, clients, colleagues and the wider market.

• Socialisation and implementation of the resilience strategy and underpinning framework across the firm (e.g. SMRs and delegates, business / function resilience role owners and all colleagues), ensuring compliance to the standard and controls.
• Development and enhancement of the resilience, crisis and incident management framework to uplift recovery and response capabilities to ensure Important Business Services can continue to operate during disruption events to minimise the impact on customers, clients and the market.
• Operational Recovery Planning and Security Incident Management planning standards and controls enhancement according to industry practice, emerging threats and regulatory requirements.
• Provide oversight to the business and technology recovery capability improvements, and uplifts to third-party (suppliers and Financial Market Infrastructure) recovery capabilities to enable Important Business Services to remain within or mitigate impact tolerance thresholds.
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