Technical Business Partner

Barings; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Prescription, Dental, Vision

Employer 401(k) with Company Match

Fertility Benefits

Educational Assistance

Commuter Reimbursement

Paid Vacation and Holidays

Job summary

Barings is seeking a Technology Business Partner (TBP) to serve as the strategic tech advisor for assigned business domains. You will connect business strategy with technology, data, and delivery leadership to shape a coherent portfolio and ensure outcomes deliver business value.

The TBP will oversee demand, initiatives, and sequencing, align roadmaps with priorities, and drive adoption across functions including operations, risk, and vendor management.

Qualifications

• Experience connecting business strategy to technology, data, product, transformation, or operating-model outcomes in regulated financial services.
• Ability to earn credibility with senior business and technology leaders while constructively challenging requests, priorities, and proposed solutions.
• Strong problem-framing, commercial judgment, and systems thinking, with the ability to balance value, risk, cost, architecture, controls, and delivery capacity.
• Experience shaping roadmaps, portfolios, business cases, prioritization decisions, and measurable outcomes across multiple teams and initiatives.
• Clear executive communication and the ability to create accountability and momentum without relying on direct authority.
• Knowledge of investment management and the front-to-back investment lifecycle is preferred; curiosity and the ability to develop deep domain expertise are essential.

Responsibilities

• Develop a comprehensive understanding of business capabilities and processes to align technology initiatives with business strategy and priorities.
• Maintain an integrated view of demand, active initiatives, strategic fit, business value, cost, capacity, risks, and sequencing for leadership decisions.
• Define the business problem before designing the solution; determine whether technology, data, process, controls, or operating-model changes are required.
• Challenge assumptions, evaluate alternatives, and recommend where Barings should invest, reuse, simplify, standardize, or stop.
• Coordinate between sponsors, delivery teams, operations, risk, vendor management, and other partners to define ownership and drive initiatives.
• Establish success measures, prepare the business for change, drive adoption, and ensure capabilities deliver expected outcomes.
• Provide concise, decision-oriented portfolio health updates and highlight actions required from leadership.
• Identify opportunities to simplify the technology estate and strengthen data quality and delivery practices.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Executive communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem framing

Business-technology alignment

Job description

At Barings, we are as invested in our associates as we are in our clients. We recognize those who work diligently for us and reward them for personal and professional integrity, communication skills, distinct competencies and expertise in specific strategies, ability to collaborate as a team member and true dedication to the interests of our clients.

We thank you for your interest in joining the Barings team, and invite you to explore our current employment opportunities.

Role: Technology Business Partner (TBP)

ROLE PURPOSE

The Technology Business Partner (TBP) is the strategic technology advisor for an assigned business domain(s). The TBP combines business knowledge, technical acumen, and delivery leadership to connect strategy with executable change. The role looks across business capabilities, processes, and platforms to identify high-value opportunities, shape a coherent portfolio of software and data, and ensure project outcomes drive business value.

Barings currently has an opening for a TBP to cover various functions within Operations, such as portfolio services, trade operations, valuation, performance measurement, fund accounting, portfolio compliance, etc. This role reports to the head of the Technology Business Partner team.

What You Will Own

• Business and technology alignment: develop a comprehensive understanding of business capabilities and processes in relation to the platforms, systems, and data that support them, and then leverage that knowledge to help align technical initiatives and roadmaps with business strategy and priorities.
• Strategic oversight of tech/data portfolio: maintain an integrated view of demand, active initiatives, strategic fit, business value, cost, capacity, risks, and sequencing so leaders can make transparent investment and trade-off decisions.
• Business case evaluation: define the business problem before defining the solution; determine whether the need is best addressed through technology, data, process, controls, operating-model change, or a combination of interventions.
• Critical thinking: challenge assumptions, evaluate alternatives, develop clear value propositions, and recommend where Barings should invest, reuse, simplify, standardize, or stop.
• Cross-functional execution: coordinate between business sponsors, technical delivery teams, operations, risk, vendor management, and other partners to define ownership, make timely decisions, identify key dependencies, and drive successful initiatives.
• Outcome realization: establish success measures, prepare business for change, encourage adoption, and ensure delivered capabilities produce the expected outcomes.
• Executive transparency: provide concise, decision-oriented communication on portfolio health, strategic choices, unresolved risks, and actions required from leadership.
• Continuous improvement: identify opportunities to simplify the technology estate, strengthen controls and data quality, improve delivery practices, and scale reusable capabilities across business areas.

What You Bring

• Experience connecting business strategy to technology, data, product, transformation, or operating-model outcomes in investment management, financial services, or another complex, regulated environment.
• Ability to earn credibility with senior business and technology leaders while constructively challenging requests, priorities, and proposed solutions.
• Strong problem-framing, commercial judgment, and systems thinking, with the ability to balance value, risk, cost, architecture, controls, and delivery capacity.
• Experience shaping roadmaps, portfolios, business cases, prioritization decisions, and measurable outcomes across multiple teams and initiatives.
• Clear executive communication and the ability to create accountability and momentum without relying on direct authority.
• Knowledge of investment management and the front-to-back investment lifecycle is preferred; curiosity and the ability to develop deep domain expertise are essential.

SUCCESS IN THE ROLE

Success is demonstrated when business and GTD leaders have a shared view of priorities, technology initiatives are grounded in value and consistent with enterprise objectives, associated delivery teams are solving clearly defined problems, and technology-enabled change produces measurable business outcomes.

Barings is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer; Minority/Female/Age/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/Individual with Disability/Protected Veteran. We welcome all persons to apply.

Barings Offers a Comprehensive Benefits Package Including

CORE BENEFITS & WELLNESS

• Medical (including Virtual Care), Prescription, Dental, and Vision Coverage
• Fitness Center Reimbursement Program (Including Online Memberships)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Fertility Benefits

FINANCIAL WELL-BEING

• Highly competitive 401(k) Plan with Company Match
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with Company Contributions
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) - Health Care & Dependent Care
• Retirement Health Reimbursement Account

LIFE INSURANCE

• Basic and Supplemental Life Insurance
• Spouse and Child Life Insurance

TIME OFF, DISABILITY AND LEAVE OF ABSENCE

• Paid Vacation, Sick Days and Annual Holidays
• Paid Leave of Absences (Maternity Leave, Parental Leave, Caregiver Leave, Bereavement Time)
• Short and Long Term Disability Plans
• Paid Volunteer Time

Other Benefits

• Education Assistance Program
• Charitable Matching Gifts Program
• Commuter Reimbursement Program
• Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement Program