Enablement Lead

Join Barclays as a Change Enablement Lead, where you’ll drive the successful delivery of multi-layered IT and business change across the organisation. You’ll take end-to-end ownership of delivery, from planning through execution, ensuring ample governance, risk management, and regulatory compliance within a financial services environment. Acting as a key link between business and technology teams, you’ll engage senior stakeholders, provide clear reporting, and ensure alignment to strategic outcomes, while leveraging Agile or hybrid delivery approaches to deliver high-quality, controlled change.

To be successful as a Change Enablement Lead, you should have experience with:

• Delivery leadership: End-to-end ownership of project delivery (planning, execution, RAID, outcomes) across multi-faceted IT / change.
• Stakeholder & communication: Ample engagement across business, technology, and senior stakeholders with clear, structured reporting.
• Risk & regulatory control: Validated ability to deliver within financial services controls frameworks, managing risk, audit, and regulatory requirements.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Agile / hybrid delivery: Experience working across Agile, Waterfall, or blended delivery models.
• Commercial & vendor management: Budget control, cost tracking, and third-party / supplier oversight.
• Financial services domain knowledge: Understanding of banking products, regulatory landscape, and core platforms.

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.

This role will be based in our Glasgow office.

Focused on delivering individual projects, ensuring completion within scope, time, and budget with a more immediate focus.

• Scope Management:
  Manages a single project with specific, defined objectives, deadlines, and deliverables. Their focus is on completing the project on time, within scope, and on budget.
• Strategic Focus:
  Operates more tactically, focusing on day-to-day management of resources, schedules, and deliverables for their individual project.
• Time Horizon:
  Works with a shorter, more defined timeframe as projects have a set beginning and end.
• Stakeholder Management:
  Primarily manages stakeholders related to their specific project, ensuring communication and expectations are clear for the project’s deliverables.
• Risk and Issue Management:
  Focuses on risks and issues specific to their project and works to mitigate them within the project’s scope.
• Resource Management:
  Manages resources for their individual project, ensuring that the project team has the necessary skills, tools, and time to complete the work.
• Financial Management:
  Focuses on managing the budget of their specific project, ensuring it is completed within the financial constraints.
• Metrics:
  Measures success based on the timely completion of project deliverables within scope, time, and budget.
• Change Management:
  Manages changes that directly impact their specific project, including scope changes, timelines, or resource allocation adjustments.

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to 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.
• OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments…