Equities Risk Release Manager

Join Barclays as an Equities Risk Release Manager, where you will lead end-to-end release planning and coordination across complex, cross-functional environments. You will manage scope, milestones, and dependencies to ensure timely, high-quality delivery aligned to business priorities. Working closely with technology and business stakeholders, you will proactively manage risks, ensure compliance with change governance and regulatory standards, and provide clear, executive-level reporting to support informed decision-making.

To be successful, you should have:

• Release planning & coordination-ability to plan, scope, and manage releases end‑to‑end, ensuring milestones are met across multiple teams and time zones, and that dependencies are actively tracked and resolved.
• Stakeholder management (Business & IT)-strong capability to work with developers, testers, BAs, and business stakeholders, aligning priorities and managing expectations while maintaining delivery timelines and quality.
• Risk, control & compliance awareness-understanding of operational risk, change governance, and internal controls, ensuring releases comply with regulatory requirements and internal technology policies.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Technical literacy - comfortable engaging with developers and testers on technical topics (builds, environments, defects, deployment constraints) to challenge assumptions and spot delivery risks early.
• Resource planning & cross‑team coordination-ability to ensure the right skills and capacity are available at the right time, especially where releases span multiple systems, teams, or geographies.
• Executive‑level communication & reporting-ability to present release status, risks, and decisions clearly to senior management, using concise, structured updates rather than operational detail.

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

This role is based in London.

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.

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