VP - Platform Portfolio Lead

Barclays•Jefferson, CO

2d•$155,000 - $225,000•Onsite

About The Position

Embark on a transformative journey as a VP - Platform Portfolio Lead. At Barclays, where our vision is to redefine the future of banking and drive innovative, scalable solutions. In this role, you will be accountable for defining and driving the overarching strategy, multi-year roadmap, and end-to-end execution of the digital channels platform portfolio. You will partner closely with senior business and technology stakeholders to align platform capabilities with enterprise priorities, ensuring delivery against strategic objectives. You will collaboration across cross-functional architecture, engineering, product, risk, and compliance teams to design, build, and continuously enhance secure, resilient, and scalable platforms. These platforms will support complex, industry-wide payment solutions while adhering to evolving regulatory and security standards.

Requirements

Proven leadership in delivering enterprise-scale technology portfolios and complex programs, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives
Considerable record of achievement of managing multi-million pound technology portfolios with consistent on-time, on-budget delivery and measurable outcomes
Effective executive stakeholder engagement, with ability to influence and communicate at executive and senior leadership levels
Deep expertise in Agile and scaled delivery frameworks (Scrum, SAFe, Kanban) to drive efficient and adaptive execution
Considerable strategic, financial, and governance acumen, including portfolio planning, P&L oversight, risk management, and data-driven decision-making
Risk and controls
Change and transformation
Business acumen
Strategic thinking
Digital and technology
Job-specific technical skills

Nice To Haves

Ample financial services expertise with deep understanding of banking operations, regulatory frameworks, and industry challenges
Solid technical foundation across software engineering, architecture, and infrastructure domains
Relevant industry certifications spanning Agile, Product, Portfolio Management, and Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure)
Proven experience managing vendors, third-party suppliers, and strategic partnerships across large-scale engagements
Demonstrated strength in driving enterprise transformation, change management, and corporate technology domain programs

Responsibilities

Lead the portfolio management team in the delivery of successful projects.
Ensure portfolio management processes and practices are aligned with controls and governance standards.
Ensure projects are aligned with the organisation’s strategic objectives.
Lead the portfolio management team, including setting of portfolio vision, management of portfolio performance, and provision of guidance and support to portfolio analysts.
Monitor portfolio performance, including tracking of project progress, managing budgets, identification of thematic risks and issues, and reporting on portfolio status to senior management.
Manage portfolio documentation, including aggregation of portfolio book of work, schedules, and budgets, and ensuring that portfolio documentation is up-to-date and accurate.
Facilitate portfolio governance, including ensuring that projects are aligned with the organisation’s strategic objectives, aligned with the controls and governance standards and that portfolio thematic risks and issues are managed effectively.
Manage the portfolio Book of Work outlining the sequence and dependencies of change initiatives, considering factors like resource availability, stakeholder buy-in, and potential risks.
Facilitate change management activities, to ensure that change initiatives are successfully implemented and embedded in the organisation.
Continuously improve portfolio management practices, including identification of areas for improvement and implementation of changes to improve portfolio performance.
Collaborate with stakeholders, including senior management, project teams, and external partners, to ensure that portfolio management practices are aligned with their needs and expectations.
Develop portfolio management processes that are aligned with controls and governance standards and that support the delivery of successful projects.
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.
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.
Be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction.
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 and 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.
Define problems and develop innovative solutions through in-depth analysis with interpretative thinking.
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.
Define and drive the overarching strategy, multi-year roadmap, and end-to-end execution of the digital channels platform portfolio.
Partner closely with senior business and technology stakeholders to align platform capabilities with enterprise priorities, ensuring delivery against strategic objectives.
Collaborate across cross-functional architecture, engineering, product, risk, and compliance teams to design, build, and continuously enhance secure, resilient, and scalable platforms.