Portfolio Governance

**Date live**:
06/05/2025
**Business Area**:
Global Payment Services
**Area of Expertise**:
Change
**Contract**:
Permanent
**Reference Code**:
JR-0000039877
Change leads and oversees transformational change initiatives at Barclays. Your role will involve managing projects and programs that drive strategic improvements and ensure successful implementation of change across the organization.
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Embark your transformative journey with Barclays as a Portfolio Governance, where you’ll play a pivotal role as Risk and Control expert and drive the business forward in helping our customers. You will own the Test Automation within APACME across multiple technology platforms and ensure that the developments align to the overall Barclays technology strategy. Your role will be responsible to ensure that solutions balance the delivery, technology and enterprise impacts and enable adherence of all resiliency, observability, supportability, security and operational readiness requirements. You will also need to take ownership for Tech Governance Lead and strengthening efficiency and quality in relation to the work you do.
**To be successful in this role, you should have**:
Design, implement, and continuously enhance the Technology Governance Framework aligned with enterprise risk, security, compliance, and audit mandates.
Lead governance routines for Change Management, Access Control, Asset Inventory, and Policy Compliance.
Partner with global and regional teams to ensure local and cross-border compliance with APACME regulations such as MAS, HKMA, RBI, SAMA, UAECB etc.
Oversee technology policy adherence, define key control indicators (KCIs), and track governance metrics via dashboards and executive reporting.
Coordinate internal and external audits, regulatory inspections, and risk assessments, ensuring timely closure of findings and actions.
Handson experience on JIRA, DORA Metrics, Spring Insight
Support strategic technology initiatives with governance oversight during product launches, cloud migration, third-party onboarding, etc.
Lead forums to communicate risk posture, control health, and remediation status to technology and business leaders.
Familiarity with developing and managing control libraries, dashboards, KCIs, KRIs, and governance packs.
**Some other highly valued skills may include**:
Experience in governance across cloud adoption, data privacy, third-party risk, and agile/DevOps environments.
Hands-on exposure to tools such as ServiceNow.
Exposure to regional cybersecurity and operational resilience regulations (e.g., DORA, MAS TRM Guidelines, UAE IRR Framework).
Ability to operate across onshore-offshore models, managing governance for third-party vendors and captive units.
Strong understanding of banking products and services across Corporate Payments.
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 is based in our Pune office.
Purpose of the role
To support the portfolio in the delivery of successful change, by ensuring that processes and practices are aligned with relevant controls and governance standards and that all activity is aligned with the strategic objectives of the business area / organisation.
Accountabilities
Facilitate portfolio prioritisation, ensuring the portfolio is compliant with the established control framework, including oversight of controls and standards.
Support the effective governance of the portfolio, helping establish and operate effective Portfolio Governance that enables quality, data driven decision making, ensuring executive reporting is fit for purpose and timely.
Monitor portfolio performance, including tracking of programme and project progress, identification of thematic portfolio risks and issues, and reporting on portfolio status to senior management and key stakeholders.
Facilitate the management of the portfolio Book of Work, prioritisation and dependencies of change initiatives, considering factors like resource availability, stakeholder buy-in, and potential risks.
Oversight of change delivery to ensure alignment with relevant policies and standards, driving consistent, robust controls data; monitoring indicators of control adherence, acting to remediate any weaknesses in the controls; and identifying and implementing actions to drive greater maturity against key control indicators.
Review, resolve, manage and escalate portfolio risks and issues, challenging where appropriate and actively supporting the resolution of variances as necessary.
Engage and influence all stakeholders to help them to understand their responsibilities and fulfil them effectively through clear, timely communication and well facilitated portfolio management processes.
Support an environment of effective delivery by empowering portfolio management resources, utilising data led think