Kickstart Product Owner

3761 Barclays - BX - UK; Knutsford; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays in Knutsford is seeking a Kickstart Product Owner to lead the development and evolution of a key technology capability that enhances cyber recovery and operational resilience. You will shape a prioritized roadmap, coordinate recovery testing, and collaborate with technology and resilience teams to deliver improvements that strengthen recovery readiness.

The role requires extensive knowledge of enterprise technology environments and deep experience in cyber recovery, disaster recovery

Qualifications

• Extensive knowledge of technology products, platforms or services within enterprise technology environments.
• Deep understanding of cyber recovery, technology resilience, disaster recovery and operational resilience practices.

Responsibilities

• Develop and evolve resilience and incident management capabilities, ensuring recovery readiness for critical services.
• Socialise and implement the resilience strategy and associated frameworks across the firm.
• Lead testing, governance and change processes to strengthen recovery and resilience capabilities.
• Coordinate with technology and business teams to shape roadmaps and drive improvement initiatives.

Skills

Tech products knowledge

Enterprise tech

Cyber recovery

Disaster recovery

Operational resilience

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.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions. Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes. 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. 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.

Leadership behaviours

• L – Listen and be authentic
• E – Energise and inspire
• A – Align across the enterprise
• D – Develop others

OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes. Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues. Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda. Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done. Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function. Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy. Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively. Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience. Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

Kickstart Product Owner

Join us as a Kickstart Product Owner, to support the development and evolution of a key technology capability that helps strengthen cyber recovery and operational resilience across the organisation. This role brings together technology, resilience and business teams to help ensure recovery services remain effective, reliable and aligned with changing business and technology needs. In this role, you will help shape the future direction of the Kickstart capability by developing and delivering a prioritised roadmap of improvements. You will use testing outcomes, stakeholder feedback, service requirements and emerging risks to identify opportunities to enhance recovery readiness, operational effectiveness and resilience. Working collaboratively with technology and resilience teams, you will help coordinate recovery testing, governance activities and service improvements, while supporting the development of sustainable operating models and support frameworks. This is an opportunity to contribute to a high-profile resilience capability, build relationships across a broad stakeholder network and make a meaningful impact on the organisation's recovery preparedness.

Essential Skills

• Extensive knowledge of technology products, platforms or services within enterprise technology environments.
• Deep understanding of cyber recovery, technology resilience, disaster recovery and operational resilience practices.
• Ability to develop product roadmaps, maturity backlogs and strategic improvement plans that support business and technology priorities.

Highly valued skills

• Understanding of technology infrastructure, service dependencies, recovery architectures and critical technology services.
• Ability to support testing, validation and assurance activities that strengthen recovery readiness and operational effectiveness.
• Ability to build effective stakeholder relationships, communicate clearly and work collaboratively across technology and business teams.

This role will be based in Knutsford. #LI-Hybrid

Work Experience and Culture

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.