Barclays Payments is hiring a Director, Head of Infrastructure and Tools.
The role holder will be responsible for:
* Owning AWS infrastructure-as-code to deliver secure, scalable production and pre-production environments.
* Leading CI/CD tooling and automation, embedding engineering controls and policy enforcement.
* Implementing observability tooling for monitoring, logging, and alerting in a DevOps-driven environment.
* Provisioning and managing shared platform services such as Kubernetes, Kafka, service mesh, databases, and IdP.
* Ensuring cloud infrastructure is secure, compliant, and cost-optimized through best practices and tooling.
* Driving platform reliability and resilience, embedding SRE principles and disaster recovery readiness.
* Collaborating with engineering, security, and architecture teams to align infrastructure with product and compliance needs.
* Defining and maintaining reusable infrastructure standards and templates to support consistent deployments.
* Managing vendor and tooling strategy, ensuring scalability, interoperability, and value for money.
Purpose of the role
To manage the people, processes, and technologies in the IT function to ensure they deliver outcomes that support the goals of the business.
Accountabilities
* Developing and implementing technology strategies that enable business success, supporting growth, innovation, and risk management.
* Providing strategic leadership on all technology matters, working with subject matter experts across the Group Technology organization.
* Aligning with global data governance frameworks to ensure data quality, security, and privacy, leveraging data analytics and AI to inform business strategies.
* Implementing technology practices in accordance with security, compliance, and regulatory requirements, actively managing risks.
* Leading digital transformation projects, modernizing legacy systems, and developing digital solutions to enhance customer, client, and colleague experiences.
* Managing the technology team, including hiring, training, mentoring, and setting team goals, ensuring resources and support are adequate.
* Overseeing technology budgets, prioritizing resources, optimizing costs, and ensuring financial risks are mitigated.
Director Expectations
* Providing expert advice to senior management and influencing strategic decisions.
* Managing resourcing, budgeting, and policy creation for a significant sub-function.
* Escalating policy or procedural breaches appropriately.
* Ensuring compliance and regulatory adherence.
* Monitoring and influencing external environment, regulators, and advocacy groups as appropriate.
* Demonstrating comprehensive knowledge of industry practices and external market developments.
* Using advanced analytical skills to solve complex problems and design solutions.
* Making significant strategic decisions within own area.
* Negotiating and influencing stakeholders at senior levels.
* Acting as principal contact for key clients and internal functions.
* Serving as a spokesperson for the function and business division.
All senior leaders are expected to demonstrate leadership behaviors aligned with Barclays' values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship, and to embody the Barclays Mindset of Empower, Challenge, and Drive.
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