Platform Enablement lead

Join us as a Platform Enablement Lead at Barclays, where you will be responsible for tracking, reporting and challenging the adoption, value realisation, and effective consumption of key platform capabilities across the organisation. The role sits at the intersection of strategy, insight, and reporting, ensuring platform roadmaps are clearly articulated, performance metrics are accessible and actionable, and governance and reporting frameworks are consistently understood and applied.

To be successful as a Platform Enablement Lead you should have:

• Strategic thinker with strong data analytics skills, adept at solving complex problems and translating data trends into actionable insights. Skilled in aligning metrics with business goals and presenting clear, compelling narratives to senior stakeholders to influence decision-making.
• Exceptional organisational and interpersonal skills with the proven ability to manage senior stakeholders, foster strong relationships at all levels of the organisation and collaborate effectively with cross functional teams.
• Ability to thrive in a fast‑paced, ambiguous environment, managing multiple priorities with a proactive, self‑starting approach.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Proficiency in tools like Excel, Power BI, Tableau, or SQL to extract, analyse, and present data clearly.
• Experience with Executive level interactions, and an understanding of the technology business. Ability to escalate, influence, and assert accountability to meet deadlines.
• Understanding of financial principles and operational drivers to contextualise performance data.

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 Knutsford.

To manage change projects that help the organisation achieve its strategic objectives, while ensuring that projects are delivered on time, within budget, in control and in compliance with regulatory requirements and internal policies and procedures.

• Management of change projects within the organisation, ensuring that they are delivered on time, within scope, budget, and to the required quality standards.
• Development and management of project plans that outline the scope, objectives, timelines, and resource requirements for change projects.
• Communication with stakeholders, including senior management, project teams, and external partners, to ensure that they are informed about project progress and that their needs and expectations are being met.
• Management of project teams, ensuring that they are properly resourced and that they have the necessary skills and expertise to deliver on project objectives.
• Management of project budgets, ensuring that projects are delivered within the agreed budget.
• Creation of reports on project progress to ensure that proposed solutions are delivered on time and within budget.
• Management of project risks, ensuring that risk, assumptions, issues and dependencies are identified, assessed, and mitigated as necessary.
• Facilitation of change management activities, including training and communication, to ensure that change projects are successfully implemented and embedded in the organisation.

• 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 escalate 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…