Senior Delivery Manager – VP

Barclays•Hanover Township, NJ

3d•$155,000 - $225,000•Onsite

About The Position

Embark on a transformative journey as a Senior Delivery Manager – VP. At Barclays, our vision is clear –to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. In this role, you will join the Barclays Digital Platform (XDP) team as we embark on a transformative journey to build a unified digital platform for the bank. This platform will deliver a modern, innovative, and AI-powered experience across Barclays’ digital channels, leveraging cutting-edge technologies to redefine how customers interact with our services. As part of the Infrastructure and AI team, you will play a key role in designing, delivering, and evolving the foundational infrastructure that powers the platform, while enabling AI-driven capabilities that create new and enhanced customer journeys. You will collaborate with teams across Barclays Technology to drive the successful delivery of strategic programs, business outcomes, and critical platform capabilities. This role offers the opportunity to apply and expand your expertise in large-scale infrastructure, platform engineering, and emerging AI technologies within a highly collaborative environment.

Requirements

Proven experience leading and delivering large-scale, enterprise-wide infrastructure programs that require coordination and alignment across multiple teams and stakeholders
Ample proficiency with Jira, including advanced planning and portfolio management capabilities such as Advanced Roadmaps, for effective cross-team work tracking and delivery management
Solid experience working within Agile/Scrum environments, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, execution, and stakeholder communication
Experience leveraging AI tools and prompt engineering techniques to enhance productivity, streamline workflows, and improve delivery outcomes, including tools such as Microsoft Copilot
Considerable understanding of public cloud platforms and infrastructure services, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), with experience supporting cloud-based solutions and enterprise environments

Nice To Haves

Demonstrated hands-on experience implementing and managing Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions using tools such as Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and similar automation frameworks
Good understanding of CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps practices, with experience integrating security, automation, and quality controls throughout the software delivery lifecycle
Proficiency in business intelligence and data visualization tools, including Tableau, with the ability to develop automated dashboards and reporting solutions that support data-driven decision-making
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with a proven ability to engage, influence, and effectively communicate complex technical concepts to senior leaders, business stakeholders, and cross-functional teams

Responsibilities

Manage change projects within the organisation, ensuring that they are delivered on time, within scope, budget, and to the required quality standards.
Develop and manage project plans that outline the scope, objectives, timelines, and resource requirements for change projects.
Communicate 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.
Manage project teams, ensuring that they are properly resourced and that they have the necessary skills and expertise to deliver on project objectives.
Manage project budgets, ensuring that projects are delivered within the agreed budget.
Create reports on project progress to ensure that proposed solutions are delivered on time and within budget.
Manage project risks, ensuring that risk, assumptions, issues and dependencies are identified, assessed, and mitigated as necessary.
Facilitate change management activities, including training and communication, to ensure that change projects are successfully implemented and embedded in the organisation.
Contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change.
Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
If managing a team, define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes.
Lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
Demonstrate leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard.
Guide technical direction as a subject matter expert within own discipline.
Lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments.
Identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments.
Train, guide and coach less experienced specialists.
Provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions.
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 comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business 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 in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.
Demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship.
Demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive.
Play a key role in designing, delivering, and evolving the foundational infrastructure that powers the platform.
Enable AI-driven capabilities that create new and enhanced customer journeys.
Collaborate with teams across Barclays Technology to drive the successful delivery of strategic programs, business outcomes, and critical platform capabilities.
Apply and expand expertise in large-scale infrastructure, platform engineering, and emerging AI technologies within a highly collaborative environment.