Application Lead - Channels

Join us as an Application Lead at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionise our digital offerings, ensuring unparalleled customer experiences.

To be successful as an Application Lead, you should have experience with or knowledge of:

• Excellent understanding of the Bank’s Risk & Controls Framework
• Background in product management and managing complex delivery demands
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills comfortable working with technical delivery teams and presenting to senior management

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Experience working in an Agile delivery team using scrum methodology
• Strong experience of working in the financial industry or similar regulated industry
• Payment and Cash Management Knowledge

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.

The location of this role is based in Knutsford or Northampton

Responsible for broader, strategic objectives across multiple projects, with a long-term, cross-functional focus.

• Scope Management:
  Oversees a collection of related projects that together aim to achieve broader strategic business objectives. Their focus is on the long-term benefits and ensuring the alignment of projects with the organization’s goals.
• Strategic Focus:
  Focuses on strategic, high-level outcomes. They are responsible for the overall success and continuous alignment of projects to the organization’s business strategy.
• Time Horizon:
  Typically works over a longer time horizon, as programs may span months or years and involve multiple phases and projects.
• Stakeholder Management:
  Manages a wide range of stakeholders across various projects, including executives, project managers, and external clients. They ensure communication and alignment across all projects within the program.
• Risk and Issue Management:
  Manages risks and issues at a higher level, focusing on cross-project dependencies and potential impacts on the broader program or business strategy.
• Resource Management:
  Responsible for allocating resources across multiple projects, balancing priorities, and ensuring that resources are used efficiently across the program.
• Financial Management:
  Manages the overall program budget, tracking the financial health of multiple projects and ensuring that the program as a whole delivers value.
• Metrics:
  Measures success based on the cumulative benefits delivered by all the projects within the program. They look at business outcomes, value creation, and alignment with strategic goals.
• Change Management:
  Deals with change at a macro level, ensuring that changes across projects are managed cohesively and don’t negatively impact the overall program.

• 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 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 be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide…