Business Architect - Process Engagement Lead

3761 Barclays - BX - UK; Glasgow; Sur place; GBP 90 000 - 120 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Barclays is seeking a Business Architect - Process Engagement Lead in Glasgow to shape and elevate key business capabilities, processes, and operating models during an exciting transformation phase.

You will partner with senior leaders to ensure operating models are designed effectively, understood, and adopted across the business, delivering sustainable process improvements and capacity creation.

Qualifications

• Advanced stakeholder collaboration and senior-level engagement with the ability to present and facilitate workshops.
• Comprehensive understanding of business architecture with focus on enterprise capabilities and operating model.
• Proven track record delivering high-quality outputs against tight deadlines.
• Strategic thinking to translate business goals into scalable process solutions.
• Expertise in operating model and zero-based design thinking to enhance efficiency.
• Experience with process mining and performance analytics to uncover insights and optimize end-to-end processes.

Responsabilités

• Develop and implement strategies to improve efficiency of banking operations using data-led insights.
• Create reports and presentations on performance and communicate findings to senior stakeholders.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to identify capacity creation opportunities and drive process transformation.
• Lead or guide specialists in process engagement and change initiatives.

Connaissances

Advanced stakeholder collaboration

Senior-level engagement

Business architecture

Enterprise capabilities

Operating model

Process mining

Performance analytics

Change leadership

Description du poste

Job Description Purpose of the role

To collaborate with stakeholders and use data and MI to identify process optimisation opportunities for capacity creation in relevant business areas.

Accountabilities

Development and implementation of strategies to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of banking operations, using data led insights. Participation in projects and initiatives to improve performance & optimisation efficiency and effectiveness. Development of reports and presentations on performance & optimisation and communicate findings to internal senior stakeholders. Identification of industry trends and developments, and collaboration with stakeholders across the bank to provide recommendations for change and improvement within performance and optimisation processes. Development and implementation of analytics and reporting performance & optimisation to mitigate risks and maintain efficient operations. Identification of capacity creation in operations using data and Management Information.

Vice President Expectations

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 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 technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment. Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda. Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does. Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.

Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.

Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions. Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes. Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.

Join us at Barclays as a Business Architect - Process Engagement Lead

In this role, you will play a pivotal part in shaping and elevating our organisation’s key business capabilities, processes and organisation design at an incredibly exciting time during our process transformation. You’ll act as a trusted partner to senior leaders, ensuring our operating models are designed effectively, clearly understood, and consistently adopted across the business.

To be successful as a Business Architect - Process Engagement Lead , you must meet the below criteria:

• Advanced stakeholder collaboration and senior‑level engagement, with the ability to confidently present, communicate complex ideas with clarity, and facilitate high‑impact workshops.
• Comprehensive understanding of business architecture with a key focus on enterprise business capabilities and operating model with the ability to guide design thinking, challenge assumptions, and influence decision‑making.
• A proven track record of delivering high‑quality outputs against challenging deadlines, effectively balancing competing priorities and organisational demands.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Strategic thinking, with the ability to translate business goals into scalable, sustainable process solutions.
• Subject‑matter expertise in operating model and zero‑based design thinking particularly in applying these capabilities to enhance process performance and drive efficiency.
• Experience with process mining and performance analytics to uncover insights, simplify workflows, and optimise end‑to‑end processes.
• Key passion for delivering successful change.

This role is based in Glasgow, United Kingdom. Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people. Our employees are self-disciplined, hard working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in the area.