Senior Technical Project Manager

Barclays Business Banking; Northampton; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Barclays as a Senior Technical Project Manager to lead transformative change projects that align with strategic objectives. You will manage project teams, budgets, and stakeholder communications, ensuring projects are delivered on time and within budget while embodying Barclays' values of respect and integrity.

Qualifications

• Ample experience in high-level system architectures and data flows.
• Experience in delivering large complex programmes.
• Strong communication skills for managing negotiations and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Manage change projects ensuring delivery on time and within budget.
• Develop and manage project plans outlining scope, objectives, and timelines.
• Communicate with stakeholders to ensure their needs are met.

Skills

Technical project management

Change Implementation

Communication Planning

Agile Methodologies

Effective Communication

Critical Thinking

Job description

Embark on a transformative journey as a Senior Technical Project Manager. At Barclays, our vision is clear – to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions.

Be a part of Barclays in executing successful change projects that will help the organisation achieve its strategic objectives, while ensuring that projects are delivered on time, within budget, in control and in compliance.

To be successful as a Senior Technical Project Manager, you should have:

• Technical project management skills – Ample experience in high-level system architectures, data flows, integration points and co-ordinating testing and implementation efforts
• Change Implementation – Previous experience in delivering large complex programmes including tracking budgets, risk and issue management, maintaining and executing detailed delivery plans and exceptional communication skills
• Readiness and Communication Planning: Adept at working across boundaries and developing strong business readiness plans across a range of stakeholders and communicating effectively

Other Highly Valued Skills Include

• Agile Methodologies: Certified or experienced in Agile training
• Effective Communication: Strong communication skills for managing negotiations and stakeholders
• Critical Thinking: Possesses a critical thinking mindset

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, digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role has the option to work from the following office locations: Northampton and Knutsford.

Purpose of the role

To manage change projects that help the organisation achieve its strategic objectives, while ensuring that projects are delivered on time, within budget, in control and in compliance with regulatory requirements and internal policies and procedures.

Accountabilities

• Management of change projects within the organisation, ensuring that they are delivered on time, within scope, budget, and to the required quality standards.
• Development and management of project plans that outline the scope, objectives, timelines, and resource requirements for change projects.
• Communication with stakeholders, including senior management, project teams, and external partners, to ensure that they are informed about project progress and that their needs and expectations are being met.
• Management of project teams, ensuring that they are properly resourced and that they have the necessary skills and expertise to deliver on project objectives.
• Management of project budgets, ensuring that projects are delivered within the agreed budget.
• Creation of reports on project progress to ensure that proposed solutions are delivered on time and within budget.
• Management of project risks, ensuring that risk, assumptions, issues and dependencies are identified, assessed, and mitigated as necessary.
• Facilitation of change management activities, including training and communication, to ensure that change projects are successfully implemented and embedded in the organisation.

Vice President Expectations

• 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 a comprehensive understanding of the organisation's functions to contribute to achieving the business's goals.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business-aligned support, to keep up to speed with business activity and 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 to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues are 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 are also expected to embody the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge, and Drive – the operating manual for our behavior.