Barclaycard Acquiring - Technology Audit VP; BPL

Join us as a Barclaycard Acquiring Payments Technology Audit VP, where you will play a pivotal role in providing independent assurance and insights over the end‑to‑end technology estate supporting Barclays’s Acquiring business and its multi‑year transformation agenda.

You will work as part of an audit team in London delivering impactful audit work and supporting the uplift of governance, control, engineering and operational resilience across a strategically important business area. In this role, you will be responsible for the delivery of technology audits across the Acquiring Transformation programme, including major change initiatives, platform modernisation, cloud adoption, engineering practices, data and analytics, resilience, and cyber and operational risk.

You will review, check and challenge end‑to‑end delivery, ensuring risks are clearly understood, controlled, and aligned to regulatory and Barclays standards. You will provide robust insight and influential challenge to senior stakeholders, ensuring that transformation outcomes are secure, well‑controlled, and deliver long‑term value.

You may be assessed on 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 London.

Barclays’ payments acceptance business provides critical infrastructure to the UK economy, processing billions of pounds of payments annually for both small businesses and domestic and international corporate clients.

In April 2025, we announced a long‑term partnership with Brookfield Asset Management to grow and transform the payments acceptance business by broadening the range of services offered, enhancing the experience for both existing and prospective clients. Leveraging extensive client relationships and deep experience of UK payments, we will create an environment of continuous innovation - activated by Brookfield’s global private equity expertise in payments, technology, operational transformation and corporate carve‑outs - to ensure the business is strategically positioned for long‑term growth.

Barclays will invest approximately £400m in the new business, the majority of which will be incurred during the first three years. Performance‑linked incentives will drive greater alignment between the partners, underpinning the long‑term commitment to the transformation. Barclays and Brookfield will work to create a standalone entity over time, continuing to use the Barclaycard Payments brand and acting as the sole payments acceptance services provider to Barclays’ clients for a minimum of ten years.

For more information on our partnership with Brookfield (programme ‘Gaia’), please visit

• Experience in payments processes, merchant acquiring, credit card issuing, financial technology (fin tech).
• Proven experience in auditing technology re‑engineering/transformation initiatives within a bank or financial services environment.
• Sound understanding of Application Development and Software Project Management. Hands‑on experience with software development / project management is preferred.
• CISA qualification. Industry certification on programme management is preferrable.
• Ability to navigate complex risk, control, and assurance environment including an understanding of how digital transformation, automation, simplification, and new technologies impact risk and control environments.
• Ability to build strong relationships with senior stakeholders across programmes, change governance forums, and business leadership including ability to navigate complex or contentious discussions.
• Experience in engaging with technology…