GTSM Transformation Lead
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Position Overview & Specifications
Transformation Lead
Radbroke
As a Barclays Transformation Lead, you will direct a portfolio of strategic and people focused initiatives within Group Technology Service Management GTSM to deliver the highest quality service management offering in a highly reliable, efficient, and financially sustainable manner. GTSM ensures the availability of systems that help Barclays support and protect the global economy.
Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality, and innovation behind us. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity β helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.
We are currently in the early stages of implementing a hybrid working environment, which means that many colleagues spend part of their working hours at home and part in the office, depending on the nature of the role they are in. Weβre flexible on how this works and it may continue to change and evolve. Depending on your team, typically this means that colleagues spend a minimum of between 20% to 60% of their time in the office, which could be over a week, a month or a quarter. However, some colleagues may choose to spend more time in the office over a typical period than their role type requires. We also have a flexible working process where, subject to business needs, all colleagues globally are able to request work patterns to reflect their personal circumstances. Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.
- Managing highly complex projects requiring facilitation and collaboration across organisational functions
- Working regularly on highly complex issues or problems which require analysis of unique issues/problems without precedent and/or structure
- Exercising high level of judgment in selecting methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results
- Providing management in establishing partnerships with program stakeholders within GTSM, and with other organisational units
- Establishing operational objectives and work plans
- Providing strategic oversight and a framework for transformation to operate with success
- Developing strategies for transformation efforts to remove barriers to achieve goals/business outcomes
- Supporting, coaching, and mentoring to identify process improvement projects, sharing expertise to ensure programme implementation and operational excellence
- Has worked in complex operating environments; will ideally have had previous experience within a similar sized environment
- Extensive experience of analysing data to understand the current state of the business identifying new opportunities to enhance the value proposition
- An ability to inspire and influence across the business whilst driving people focused transformation
- A curious mindset, passion for continuous improvement, people development and the knowledge to question and challenge current states through effective communication
- Experience within financial service
- Lean management/Six Sigma experience
- Experience with enterprise systems management toolsets and systems
Where will you be working?
The Barclays Technology Campus, just outside Manchester, is our transatlantic tech command centre for information security in the UK. Itβs the vital strategic powerhouse behind our global operations. Radbroke is a place where big ideas become realities. Where the talent in the world can build careers full of scope, variety and reward, by creating the technical solutions that meet todayβs demands, answer tomorrowβs questions and redefine the future of finance.
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Candidate Selection & Onboarding Process
Application & Resume Screening
Submit your tailored CV/Resume directly to the talent acquisition portal.
Technical & Competency Interviews
Virtual interviews with the hiring manager and multidisciplinary team.
Formal Offer & Benefits Negotiation
Written agreement outlining compensation, equity, retirement vesting, and relocation allowances.
Onboarding & Corporate Integration
Equipment provisioning, team orientation, and commencement of duties.
United Kingdom Right to Work & Skilled Worker Visa Guide
Employment in the United Kingdom requires legal Right to Work verified under the Home Office Points-Based Immigration System:
Sponsoring employers must hold an active Home Office A-rated Sponsor License and assign a valid Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS). Role must meet the general minimum salary threshold (Β£38,700) or occupation going rate.
Continuous employment under Skilled Worker status establishes eligibility for Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) after 5 continuous years, leading to British Citizenship.
Candidate Preparation Blueprint: Banking & Lending
Based on transatlantic hiring benchmarks for GTSM Transformation Lead roles across Barclays's corporate sector, successful applicants typically excel across three core dimensions:
Demonstrated portfolio evidence, architecture/system design case studies, or validated professional certifications directly applicable to Banking & Lending.
STAR method competency responses highlighting cross-functional leadership, conflict resolution, and delivering measurable enterprise ROI under tight timelines.
Total compensation expectation aligned within the benchmarked Salary Disclosed on Application bracket, including retirement vesting and health parity.
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