End User Device Product Owner

barclays; Knutsford; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays is seeking a senior resilience lead to develop, implement and maintain an effective resilience strategy and Operational Recovery Planning framework aligned to industry standards and regulatory expectations.

You will oversee incident management, crisis readiness and third‑party recovery capabilities, socialise the framework across the firm, report progress to boards, and ensure services remain within impact tolerance during severe but plausible disruption.

Qualifications

• Develop and enhance the resilience, crisis and incident management framework to improve recovery and response capabilities.
• Provide oversight to recovery capability improvements across third-party suppliers and FMIs.
• Communicate resilience position via scorecards and dashboards for investment decisions.

Responsibilities

• Socialise and implement the resilience framework across the firm.
• Ensure compliance with standards, controls and regulatory expectations.
• Lead testing to demonstrate ability to recover within impact tolerance.

Job description

Job Description

Purpose of the role

To develop, implement, and maintain an effective resilience strategy and Operational Recovery Planning and Incident Management framework aligned to industry leading standards and controls and regulatory expectations, to enable the bank to respond and recover important business services to severe but plausible scenarios, and minimise the impact to customers, clients, colleagues and the wider market.

Accountabilities

• Socialisation and implementation of the resilience strategy and underpinning framework across the firm (e.g. SMRs and delegates, business / function resilience role owners and all colleagues), ensuring complaince to the standard and controls.
• Development and enhancement of the resilience, crisis and incident management framework to uplift recovery and response capabilities to ensure Important Business Services can continue to operate during disruption events to minimise the impact on customers, clients and the market.
• Operational Recovery Planning and Security Incident Management planning standards and controls enhancement according to industry practice, emerging threats and regulatory requirements.
• Provide oversight to the business and technology recovery capability improvements, and uplifts to third-party (suppliers and Financial Market Infrastructure) recovery capabilities to enable Important Business Services to remain within or mitigate impact tolerance thresholds.
• Communication of the firm's / business' resilience position (risks and remediation) through clear and transparent scorecards / dashboards to enable effective investment decisions to the Board and Executive Committees, Control Forums and business stakeholders.
• Enhancement of resilience, crisis management and incident response and recovery capability through sophisticated, regular and adequate testing coverage to demonstrate Important Business Services' ability to recover within impact tolerance for a severe but plausible scenario.
• Assurance that services and products are built resiliently by the business through the change management process (NAPAs, DRAs, material change process).
• Continually remain abreast of resilience and crisis and incident management developments, regulatory policy requirements and the emerging landscape.
• Mitigation of the impact of unexpected incidents by identifying , responding to and enabling the resolution of events that threaten the services, operations, infrastructure, colleagues and clients of the bank.
• Execution of responses to reported incidents and potential threats from various channels including intelligence, email, phone and monitoring systems prioritised by the assessed or actual impact to the bank.
• Documentation and analysis of past prioritised incident details, the steps to resolution and the lessons learnt to support the identification and implementation of preventative measures and process improvements.

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 escape 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 b