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Project Manager, IT Project Manager Jobs in Glasgow, UK at hackajob
Overview
hackajob is collaborating with Barclays to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. Join us as a Project Manager within Group Economic Crime COO at Barclays within the Case Management/Workflow portfolio. In this role you will manage a combination of legacy and green-fields case management projects, covering all aspects of delivery from project planning and creation, governance, risk & control, working with the scrum teams guiding and tracking delivery, financials, resource planning and producing status reports against milestones.
Working within a medium-sized UK and India team, the role holder will partner with change delivery teams to ensure key success criteria is met and monitor progress effectively through tools like Navigator and Jira.
Responsibilities
- Manage a combination of legacy and green-field case management projects across delivery lifecycle, including planning, governance, risk & control, and reporting.
- Guide and track delivery with scrum teams, manage financials and resource planning, and produce status reports against milestones.
- Collaborate with change delivery teams to ensure key success criteria are met and monitor progress using tools such as Navigator and Jira.
Qualifications / Skills
- A track record of creating and delivering complex projects (multiple delivery work streams, data migration from legacy applications) within an Agile model.
- Experience with governance activities such as project plan creation (using MS Project, Excel, PowerPoint) & tracking, resource forecasts, financials.
- Strong stakeholder management experience, including preparation of materials (MS PowerPoint) and presenting to stakeholders.
- Financial services or banking environment experience within a technology delivery team is highly valued.
- Strong communication, influencing, analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Agile certification or similar.
Accountabilities
- Management of the delivery, resource allocation and improvement of complex technical project capabilities across the bank using Agile/Scrum methodologies for planning, stand-ups, demos, retrospectives and execution of sprints.
- Collaborate with customers and business teams to manage and implement customer trails to support technically feasible solutions, and effort and timeline expectations.
- Collaborate with software engineers, quality teams, product managers and other engineering teams to deliver high-quality products and features through the software project lifecycle aligned to the bank’s objectives, regulation and security policies.
- Identify, assess, and mitigate risks associated with technical projects to prepare the bank for potential challenges.
- Manage change requests and communicate with stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.
- Manage vendor relations involved in technical projects to ensure they deliver according to agreed terms.
- Stay abreast of the latest industry technology trends and adopt new approaches to improve delivery outcomes and foster continuous learning, technical excellence and growth.
Assistant Vice President Expectations
- Advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
- Lead a team performing complex tasks, using professional knowledge to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees, with performance appraisal and reward consideration.
- Demonstrate leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard.
- If individual contributor: lead collaborative assignments, guide team members, and identify cross-functional needs to complete assignments, identifying new directions for projects.
- Consult on complex issues; provide advice to People Leaders to support resolution of escalated issues.
- Identify ways to mitigate risk and develop new policies/procedures in support of control and governance.
- Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls related to the work.
- Collaborate with other areas to keep up to speed with business activity and strategy.
- Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources to solve problems creatively and effectively.
- Communicate complex information clearly to diverse audiences.
- Influence stakeholders 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.
This role will be based in our Glasgow office.
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Title: Project Manager, IT Project Manager
Company: hackajob
Location: Glasgow, UK
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