Technical Project Manager – VP

Embark on a transformative journey as a Technical Project Manager – VP. At Barclays, our vision is clear – to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. In this role, you will support the governance and oversight of financial crime risk across the business. You will act as a subject matter expert, overseeing issues, incidents, and risk impact assessments, while producing risk-level reporting and engaging with senior stakeholders.

This role is part of the Integrated Financial Crime portfolio (IFC), a multi-faceted program of change that strengthens risk management, enhances automation, and empowers colleagues and customers to identify and prevent financial crime.

• Delivering complex work within large-scale programs using project management approaches
• Applying knowledge of financial crime systems in areas such as transaction monitoring, screening, sanctions, AML, CDD, and regulatory frameworks
• Proven ability to deliver enterprise-wide data platforms working with cross functional teams
• Driving change and transformation through product enhancements and process improvements
• Building trusted relationships and collaborating across diverse stakeholder groups
• Influencing and aligning perspectives to achieve shared business outcomes

• Experience in implementing Data Governance programs for financial crime domain
• Clear and effective communication, providing guidance and support to teams
• Defining milestones, success measures, and business case components
• Fostering ample stakeholder engagement across multiple functions
• Experience in internal audit or compliance assurance functions

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

This role is located in Whippany, New Jersey.

Minimum Salary: $170,000

Maximum Salary: $230,000

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above includes only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

Barclays employees are eligible for a suite of competitive and generous employee benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and other paid leave for qualifying circumstances.

This position is eligible for an incentive award.

To manage the efficient delivery of large-scale technical projects and capabilities across the bank and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to understand their needs and expectations throughout the software product lifecycle, adhering to agreed time, budget and quality requirements.

• Management of the delivery, resource allocation and improvement of complex technical project capabilities across the bank using Agile/Scrum methodologies for planning, stand-ups, demos, retrospectives and the execution of sprints.
• Collaboration with customers and business teams to manage and implement customer trails to support the proposal of technically feasible solutions, and effort and timeline expectations.
• Collaboration with software engineers, quality teams, product managers and other engineering teams to deliver high-quality products and features through the software project lifecycle aligned to the banks objectives, regulation and security policies.
• Identification, assessment, and mitigation of risks associated with technical projects to prepare the bank for potential challenges.
• Management of change requests and communication with stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.
  
  Management of vendor relations involved in technical projects to ensure they deliver according to agreed terms.
• Stay abreast of the latest industry technology trends and technologies, to evaluate and adopt new approaches to improving deliver outcomes and to foster a culture of continuous learning, technical excellence and growth.

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and elevate breaches of policies/procedures.
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
• 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…