IFC - Development Manager-VP

At Barclays, we don’t just adapt to the future – we create it. Embark your transformative journey as IFC - Development Manager-VP. At Barclays, we’re more than a bank – we’re a force for progress and help craft innovative solutions. We are looking for a highly skilled Development Manager VP to join us on an exciting journey as we modernize our Corporate Banking platforms to make them simpler, leaner and more efficient. You will utilize your strong industry and domain expertise to shape up our Technology product offerings to meet the business requirements for the future. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionize our digital offerings, ensuring unparalleled customer experiences.
To be successful as a Java Lead, you should have experience with:

• Define team roles and responsibilities, assess future capability needs, and support performance development.

• Demonstrate the LEAD leadership behaviors—Listen, Energize, Align, Develop—to create an environment where colleagues thrive.

• Coach, train, and guide specialists to enhance team capability and foster continuous learning.

• Act as a subject matter expert, guiding technical decisions and overseeing complex, multi‑year assignments.

• Identify the need for cross‑disciplinary expertise and facilitate collaboration across specialties.

• Advise senior leadership and cross‑functional groups on business impact, strategic alignment, and functional priorities.

• Build and maintain trusted relationships with internal and external stakeholders using strong influencing and negotiation skills.

• Manage and mitigate risks in line with governance standards, ensuring robust control frameworks.

• Demonstrate accountability for strengthening controls within the function.

• Possess broad and deep understanding of organizational functions to help achieve business goals.

• Collaborate across business‑aligned support areas to stay current with activities and strategies.

• Create high‑impact solutions through advanced analytical thought, comparing complex alternatives.

• Integrate outcomes from extensive research into problem‑solving and strategic decisions.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Experience Anti Money Laundering (AML) domain

• Experience in working using Agile approach is must

• Experience in LCT and control tribe member engagement.

• Experience in project risk assessments, actions, and mitigations.

• Strong communication skills, stakeholder management

• Hands-on knowledge of Tech stack like Database, Middleware & LINUX.

• Appropriate experience interacting with Product Owners and business/ IT stakeholders

• Experience in delivering Automation Projects involving strategic tech stack - Java, React in a cloud native environment.

• Consistently demonstrate professional, positive, and approachable attitude/demeanor and discretion. Demonstrate sensitivity in handling confidential information.

• Excellent written and oral communication with extensive experience in financial services or highly regulated industry

• Experience in the implementation of org-wide processes and improvements thereof

• Should have end-to-end knowledge of Transaction Monitoring data flow

• Having AML alert Tuning, alert Workflow management and experience on various rules is preferred.

• Financial Crime or Compliance experience is mandatory

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. 

The location of the role is Pune .

Purpose of the role

To manage change projects that help the organisation achieve its strategic objectives, while ensuring that projects are delivered on time, within budget, in control and in compliance with regulatory requirements and internal policies and procedures. 

Accountabilities

• Management of change projects within the organisation, ensuring that they are delivered on time, within scope, budget, and to the required quality standards.
• Development and management of project plans that outline the scope, objectives, timelines, and resource requirements for change projects.
• Communication with stakeholders, including senior management, project teams, and external partners, to ensure that they are informed about project progress and that their needs and expectations are being met.
• Management of project teams, ensuring that they are properly resourced and that they have the necessary skills and expertise to deliver on project objectives.
• Management of project budgets, ensuring that projects are delivered within the agreed budget.
• Creation of reports on project progress to ensure that proposed solutions are delivered on time and within budget.
• Management of project risks, ensuring that risk, assumptions, issues and dependencies are identified, assessed, and mitigated as necessary.
• Facilitation of change management activities, including training and communication, to ensure that change projects are successfully implemented and embedded in the organisation.

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.

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.