Director, Workplace and Collaboration Technology New York

Barclays•New York, NY

About The Position

The Location Strategy Technology Infrastructure Director (Amers) is accountable for the end‑to-end delivery of technology infrastructure for Location Strategy projects across the Americas, including the flagship headquarters transformation at 745 Seventh Avenue. This Director‑level role leads a matrix of resources across design, implementation, and deployment of workplace, network, rich-media and trading floor technology within a complex, regulated, multi‑year construction environment. The role operates with significant autonomy, partnering closely with Real Estate, Security, Procurement and Technology Product and Engineering teams to deliver secure, resilient, and future‑ready workplace aligned to Barclays’ global location strategy, while driving strong colleague engagement and adoption.

Requirements

Confident senior‑level stakeholder engagement, providing expert advice, influencing strategic decisions, and acting as a trusted spokesperson
Strong commercial, budget, and vendor management capability, with accountability for cost control and value delivery
Proven Director‑level people leadership, including resourcing, capability building, and embedding a strong performance and compliance culture
Broad and up‑to-date industry knowledge, strong analytical judgement, and authority to make significant delivery and strategic decisions aligned to Barclays’ values

Responsibilities

Proven experience delivering large‑scale office or campus technology programmes within complex, enterprise environments
Deep expertise across workplace, collaboration, network, and trading‑floor technologies, with strong understanding of how they integrate into the wider business
Strong end‑to-end delivery governance, including planning, reporting, quality control, risk, assumptions, dependencies, and regulatory compliance
Demonstrated ability to lead complex, multi‑year change programmes at pace, through ambiguity and live operational environments
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.