BUSINESS ANALYSIS AND SOLUTIONING LEAD

As a Business Analysis and Solutioning Lead at Barclays, you will have a significant foundation impact in on the Solution Design, Estimating and Analysis function within the Business Engagement & and Demand Management function in US Consumer Bank Technology (USCB). In this role you will primarily focus on establishing the Business Analysis / Business Solutions Analysis capability with a view to continuous improvement and maturing the capability in line with the Agile Maturity Upfit.

Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality, and innovation behind us. We've helped millions of individuals and businesses thrive, creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted. An important and growing presence in the USA, we offer careers providing endless opportunity.

WORKING FLEXIBLY

We’re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognizes and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers’ and clients’ needs. Whether you have family commitments or you’re a career, or whether you need study time or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life. If you would like some flexibility, then please discuss this with the hiring manager, and your request will be reviewed subject to business needs.

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. We’re 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.

WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING?

•     Working with Architecture / Solutions Design, establishing a Business Analysis function and delivery of commercially proven solutions achieving complex business goals. 

•     Developing a culture of collaboration, innovation, and high performance. Strong strategic vision balanced with pragmatism to support the e2e outcomes required

•     Analysing and distilling complex information quickly, presenting to non-Technology colleagues in a clear and succinct manner.

•     Managing the solution designs, estimates and development team architects to develop robust doable solutions. You will be comfortable driving strategic change

•     Collaborating with the Lead Architect, Solution Architects and the Technology and Business functions of the group on improvements

•     Creating the BA/ BSA capability, working across teams to establish a mature estimation framework that uses “story points” as currency 

•     Partnering with various teams to define configuration VS versus customisation “menu” to fast-track estimation and enabling faster speed-to-market and informed decision making

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR:

•     Experience in banking / financial services is essential with significant practical experience of working across Product Office, Technology and Business stakeholders 

•     Excellent oral verbal and written communication skills, presentation skills, and ability to facilitate cross-functional cooperation across senior stakeholders

•     Operates with High energy, hands-on as needed with  and results & and goal-oriented approach.

•     Well organized with excellent time management, and ability to work in a pressurized environment

SKILLS THAT WILL HELP YOU IN THE ROLE:

•     Financial or Cards industry relevant background

•     Graduate / Post graduate degree in Computer Science, or related fields

•     Experience of working to tight deadlines in a fast-moving environment

•     Knowledge of the program delivery lifecycle to outline impacts to delivery in the initial stages of design and solutioning.

WHERE WILL YOU BE WORKING?

At Barclays, we are proud to be redefining the future of finance and here at Whippany  we are defining the future of the workplace and the future of the way we work and live.  We are creating a unique community, one of four strategic tech-enabled hubs that will  redefine opportunity for everyone who works here. Whatever you do at Whippany,  you’ll have every chance to build a world-class career in this world-class environment.

We’re a global, vital and highly respected financial organisation with an inspiring Purpose. Operating in 50 countries and employing around 83,000 people across the world, we help communities, individuals and businesses thrive. And we’ve created financial solutions and technology that the world now takes for granted. A career with us can offer incredible variety, depth and breadth of experience, and the chance to learn from some of the best minds in technology and finance.