Join us as a Senior Reliability Lead to support a major Markets simplification
initiative bringing multiple legacy services into a new strategic platform.
To be successful as a Senior Reliability Lead within the GTSM Markets Team,
you should have:
* Previous experience as reliability lead within financial services
* Previous experience with supporting Investment Banking and Markets services and knowledge of different asset classes
* Experience leading a highly technical team across different regions
You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in 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 would be based in our new Glasgow Campus.
Purpose of the role
To effectively monitor and maintain the bank's critical technology
infrastructure and resolve more complex technical issues, whilst minimising
disruption to operations.
Accountabilities
* Provision of technical support for the service management function to resolve more complex issues for a specific client of group of clients.
Develop the support model and service offering to improve the service to customers and stakeholders.
* Execution of preventative maintenance tasks on hardware and software and utilisation of monitoring toolsmetrics to identify, prevent and address potential issues and ensure optimal performance.
* Maintenance of a knowledge base containing detailed documentation of resolved cases for future reference, self-service opportunities and knowledge sharing.
* Analysis of system logs, error messages and user reports to identify the root causes of hardware, software and network issues, and providing a resolution to these issues by fixing or replacing faulty hardware components, reinstalling software, or applying configuration changes.
* Automation, monitoring enhancements, capacity management, resiliency, business continuity management, front office specific support and stakeholder management.
* Identification and remediation or raising, through appropriate process, of potential service impacting risks and issues.
* Proactively assess support activities implementing automations where appropriate to maintain stability and drive efficiency.
Actively tune monitoring tools, thresholds, and alerting to ensure issues are known when they occur.
Vice President 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.
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.