Vice President Expectations

To 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, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance, and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes.

  • They may also 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.

• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People 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

• OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within their own discipline and will guide technical direction.

  • They will 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.
  • They will train, guide, and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long-term profits, organizational 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.

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.

Join Us at Barclays as a Product Owner Network Edge

Where you will define and drive the strategy, delivery, and optimisation of edge network services that enable secure, high-performance connectivity between users, branches, partners, and cloud environments. The role requires deep product ownership experience combined with a strong understanding of edge networking domains such as external connectivity, internet gateways, partner integration, and site connectivity, enabling effective decision-making across performance, security, and scalability considerations.

Candidates are not required to be engineers but must demonstrate sufficient technical credibility to lead discussions, define priorities, and make informed trade-offs.

To be successful as a Product Owner Network Edge, you should have experience with:

Required Skills

• Product Ownership & Value Management:

  • Proven ability to own a product end-to-end, define and articulate product vision and roadmap, and prioritise delivery to maximise business value while balancing desirability, viability, and feasibility.

• Stakeholder Leadership & Influence:

  • Strong ability to engage, influence, and align senior stakeholders, delivery teams, and control functions, acting as a trusted point of accountability between business, technology, and risk.

• Agile Delivery & Backlog Management:

  • Extensive experience managing and prioritising complex product backlogs in Agile environments, translating business outcomes into clear user stories with robust acceptance criteria and driving consistent value delivery.

Highly Valued Skills

• Risk, Control & Governance Awareness:

  • Experience operating within regulated environments, with an understanding of risk identification, controls, governance, and escalation mechanisms within product delivery.

• Data-Driven Decision Making:

  • Ability to use KPIs, customer insight, and performance data to assess outcomes, inform prioritisation decisions, and drive continuous improvement.

• People Leadership or Senior SME Capability:

  • Experience either leading and developing teams at VP level, or acting as a senior subject matter expert guiding complex, cross-functional initiatives with strategic impact.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in the role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is based in London, Canary Wharf.

Our Work Experience

The combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people. Our employees are self-disciplined, hard-working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in the area.