Risk Manager Global Network Services

Barclays UK; Knutsford; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A global financial institution is seeking a Risk Manager for its Global Network Services team in Knutsford. The role includes owning technology risk and control activities across various network platforms while ensuring compliance and regulatory readiness. Candidates should have strong knowledge of technology risk domains and experience with frameworks like NIST or ISO. This position offers the opportunity to lead teams and influence senior stakeholders in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks across various business units.
• Ability to communicate complex technical risk clearly and influence senior stakeholders.
• Experience supporting regulatory requirements and audit preparations.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end technology risk and control activities across network platforms.
• Ensure compliance and maintain a robust control environment.
• Lead a team to perform complex tasks impacting the business function.

Skills

Strong knowledge of technology risk domains

Experience with risk and control frameworks

Evaluating technology safeguards

Identifying risks and control effectiveness

Communication with stakeholders

Understanding technology architectures

Education

Experience in a regulated environment

Job description

Join us as a Risk Manager – Global Network Services to help strengthen technology risk oversight across Barclays’ global network infrastructure and support the safe, compliant delivery of our Networks Modernisation strategy.

You will join the Global Network Services team and own end‑to‑end technology risk and control activities across a broad range of network platforms and connectivity products. These include campus and branch networks, WAN / SD‑WAN, DIA, remote access, data centre, and core network services. The role supports consistent, well‑governed delivery by working closely with engineering and product teams across the organisation.

Operating within the Product Operating Model, you will embed product‑centric risk management practices across the design, build, and run lifecycle. You will partner with Production Network Engineering and Network Product Design & Engineering teams to support change delivery, challenge risk decisions where required, and ensure transformation is delivered in a resilient, secure, and compliant manner.

This role carries accountability for:

• End‑to‑end risk identification, control design, assurance, and remediation
• Change risk evaluation for complex network transformations
• Regulatory compliance, audit readiness, and evidence quality across network services
• Defining and maintaining risk and control metrics, with a focus on continuous improvement and control effectiveness

To be successful as a Risk Manager – Global Network Services, you should have experience with:

• Strong knowledge of technology risk domains, including cybersecurity, cloud, infrastructure, data, and operational resilience
• Working with recognised risk and control frameworks such as NIST, ISO 27001, COBIT, or SOC2
• Evaluating and challenging technology safeguards across applications, networks, and cloud environments
• Identifying risks, assessing control effectiveness, and driving remediation through pragmatic, well‑governed approaches

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• An understanding of technology architectures and system design, with the ability to assess inherent risk in large‑scale network environments
• The ability to communicate complex technical risk in a clear, business‑focused way and influence senior stakeholders
• Experience supporting regulatory requirements, audit preparation, and change risk assessment within a large, regulated environment
• A continuous improvement mindset, including the ability to identify process gaps and uplift risk and assurance practices

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in the role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, and digital and technology capabilities, as well as job‑specific technical expertise.

This role will be based in Knutsford.

Purpose of the role

To support the Risk Function in delivering it’s objective of safeguarding the bank's financial and operational stability by proactively identifying, assessing, mitigating, and monitoring risks across various business units and activities.

Accountabilities

• Development of strategic direction for risk, including the implementation of up‑to‑date methodologies and processes.
• Management of the risk department, including oversight of risk colleagues and their performance, implementation of risk priorities and objectives, oversight of department efficiency and effectiveness.
• Relationship management of risk stakeholders, including identifying relevant stakeholders, and maintenance of the quality of external third‑party services.
• Adherence to the Risk policy, standards and frameworks, and maintaining a robust control environment.

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. 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 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.

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.