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

• Define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations.
• Counsel employees on performance and contribute 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.

If the position has leadership responsibilities

• 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

If an individual contributor

• Be a subject matter expert within own discipline and 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.
• Provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions.

Additional Expectations

• 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 – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. Also demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.

Key Requirements

• Experience in Windows or Linux at an advanced level.
• Ability to diagnose Windows or Linux kernel level bugs and issues.
• Advanced knowledge of Windows or Linux storage IO subsystems.
• Ability to create IaaC using Python.
• Highly valued skills include experience in:
  • Ansible
  • Chef
  • Kubernetes
  • Backup / Recovery

Assessment

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, communication skills, and interaction with a diverse range of stakeholders, as well as job-specific technical skills.

Location

This role can be based in either Knutsford (Cheshire) or Glasgow.