Join Barclays as an AI & GDRMS Standards governance role, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionize our digital offerings, ensuring unapparelled customer experiences. At Barclays, we don't just anticipate the future - we're creating it.
To be successful in this role, you should have below skills:
- Strong understanding of AI governance, risk management, data management and regulatory frameworks (EU AI Act experience preferred).
- Proven ability to manage cross-functional programs involving Risk, Compliance, Legal, and Technology teams.
- Experience in operationalizing governance processes and controls for emerging technologies.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and change leadership skills.
- Ability to produce high-quality documentation and evidence for audits and regulatory reviews.
- Background in financial services, data risk management, or technology governance.
- Familiarity with GenAI governance and AI risk classification methodologies.
- Project management and program delivery experience in complex, global environments.
Some other highly valued skills may include below:
- Strategic Thinking: Ability to anticipate regulatory trends and align governance frameworks proactively.
- Influencing Skills: Strong capability to drive consensus and secure buy-in across diverse stakeholder groups.
- Leadership & Ownership: Demonstrates accountability and inspires confidence in delivering complex programs.
- Adaptability: Comfortable working in a dynamic environment with evolving regulatory and technology landscapes.
- Collaboration: Builds strong relationships across functions and geographies to achieve shared objectives.
- Attention to Detail: Ensures accuracy and completeness in documentation, metrics, and compliance artifacts.
- Problem-Solving: Approaches challenges with analytical rigor and innovative solutions.
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 out of Pune location.
Purpose of the role
To develop, implement, and maintain effective governance frameworks for all data and records across the bank's global operations.
Accountabilities
- Development and maintenance of a comprehensive data and records governance framework aligned with regulatory requirements and industry standards.
- Monitoring data quality and records metrics and compliance with standards across the organization.
- Identification and addressing of data and records management risks and gaps.
- Development and implementation of a records management programme that ensures the proper identification, classification, storage, retention, retrieval and disposal of records.
- Development and implementation of a data governance strategy that aligns with the bank's overall data management strategy and business objectives.
- Provision of Group wide guidance and training on Data and Records Management standard requirements.
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 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, organisational 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.
