Front Office Tribe Lead

Barclays; Greater London; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays is seeking a Front Office Tribe Lead to define and lead the strategic vision, product strategy and long-term roadmap for the Front Office ecosystem, enabling colleagues to serve clients more effectively and efficiently.

You will own the product portfolio across the tribe, drive AI enablement, operational efficiency and transformational change, and build partnerships with executives to secure investment and commitment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience defining product vision, strategy and roadmaps for large-scale digital platforms or colleague-facing ecosystems.
• Strong track record influencing senior executives and building consensus across complex stakeholder groups with competing priorities.
• Experience creating business cases, strategic narratives and investment propositions that secure organizational commitment and funding.
• Demonstrated success leading large-scale change involving multiple products, teams and technology platforms, with significant dependency management and stakeholder complexity.
• Strong commercial and outcome orientation, with a history of translating strategic ambition into measurable business value.
• Familiarity with Private Banking, Wealth Management, Financial Services or other highly regulated industries where balancing innovation, risk and control is critical.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end local Platform strategy design and execution.
• Drive platform development and regulatory risk management.
• Define KPIs and monitor platform performance.
• Lead cross-functional teams across Product, Design, Engineering, Data and Delivery.
• Align stakeholders and secure executive sponsorship.
• Coach teams to improve delivery quality.
• Represent function to regulators and senior leaders.

Skills

Product vision

Strategy & roadmaps

Executive stakeholder alignment

Business case development

Change management

Cross-functional leadership

Regulatory risk awareness

Strategic storytelling

Job description

Front Office Tribe Lead

• Define and lead the strategic vision, product strategy and long-term roadmap for the Front Office ecosystem, enabling colleagues to serve clients more effectively and efficiently.
• Develop and communicate a compelling narrative for the future of Front Office productivity, securing executive alignment, investment support and organisational commitment.
• Own the product portfolio and investment priorities across the tribe, balancing short-term value delivery with long-term capability development.
• Drive simplification, workflow optimisation, AI enablement and operational efficiency across colleague journeys and business processes.
• Build strong partnerships with Front Office, Operations, Technology and Executive stakeholders to align priorities, influence strategic decisions and deliver sustainable business outcomes.
• Lead a multidisciplinary organisation spanning Product, Design, Engineering, Data and Delivery, creating a culture of accountability, innovation, experimentation and evidence-based decision making.
• Lead major transformation initiatives, ensuring product teams and delivery leadership translate strategic objectives into scalable products, journeys and capabilities.
• Champion modern product management, human-centred design and agile ways of working, embedding customer and colleague needs at the heart of decision-making.
• Define and own measurable outcomes and success metrics, ensuring investments deliver tangible value for clients, colleagues and the business.

Desired Skills & Experience

• Proven experience defining product vision, strategy and roadmaps for large-scale digital platforms or colleague-facing ecosystems.
• Strong track record of influencing senior executives and building consensus across complex stakeholder groups with competing priorities.
• Experience creating compelling business cases, strategic narratives and investment propositions that secure organisational commitment and funding.
• Demonstrated success leading large-scale change involving multiple products, teams and technology platforms, with significant dependency management and stakeholder complexity.
• Strong commercial and outcome orientation, with a history of translating strategic ambition into measurable business value.
• Familiarity with Private Banking, Wealth Management, Financial Services or other highly regulated industries where balancing innovation, risk and control is critical.

Purpose of the role

To take responsibility for end-to-end local Platform management including – strategy design & execution, scalable and stable platform for client & colleagues, regulatory risk mitigation & management, platform development.

Accountabilities

• Business ownership of system, processes & procedures on the platform and end to end client journey management, oversight, business continuity & service recovery.
• Management, understanding and interpretation of local & group regulatory requirements & standards.
• Driving Platform strategy and change agenda, seeking innovative solutions to differentiate, streamline and de-risk the platform to directly contribute to client experience, Banker efficiency and managing / reducing regulatory risk.
• Using KPIs and data to monitor and measure of the platform effectiveness and change improvements.
• Managing, reporting and representing the platform performance at relevant governance fora.
• External (where required) and internal stakeholder management including regulators, senior leaders, client facing colleagues and infrastructure partners.
• Provision of guidance, coaching and support to improve colleagues' delivery quality.

Director Expectations

• To manage a business function, providing significant input to function wide strategic initiatives. Contribute to and influence policy and procedures for the function and plan, manage and consult on multiple complex and critical strategic projects, which may be business wide..
• They manage the direction of a large team or sub-function, leading other people managers and embedding a performance culture aligned to the values of the business. Or for an individual contributor, they lead organisation wide projects and act as deep technical expert and thought leader, identifying new ways of working and collaborating cross functionally. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made outside of own function, offering significant input to function wide strategic initiatives.
• Manage, coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub-function.
• Escalates breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
• Foster and guide compliance, ensure regulations are observed that relevant processes in place to facilitate adherence.
• Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to both monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays, when appropriate.
• Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division / Group to achieve the overall business objectives.
• Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline alongside up-to-date relevant sector / functional knowledge, and insight into external market developments / initiatives.
• Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in often complex/ sensitive situations.
• Exercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions or recommendations within own area.
• Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally.
• Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/ businesses divisions.
• Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division.

All Senior 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.

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.