Job Openings at Barclays

Location: London  (Hybrid working-3 days in the office on Mon, Weds, Thurs, 2 days WFH)

Length: 6 months (possibility of extension) 

PAYE only 

Overall purpose of the role:

• We are seeking a highly capable and proactive Executive Assistant to join our dynamic Group Sustainability team within BX. This is a pivotal role requiring exceptional organisational skills, a resilient personality, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, demanding environment. If you are a seasoned professional with a proven track record of supporting senior leadership and can adeptly manage complex diaries and competing priorities, we encourage you to apply. 

Key Accountabilities: 

• Provide comprehensive administrative and personal assistance to 8 Directors and 1 Managing Director, including extensive diary management for both internal and external engagements.
• Coordinate all domestic and international travel arrangements, including logistics for significant annual events.
• Manage expense reporting using Concur (training will be provided if necessary).
• Anticipate needs, prioritise tasks effectively, and make independent decisions in the face of conflicting demands.
• Act as a key point of contact, managing communication and interactions with various stakeholders, including those with strong personalities.
• Demonstrate the ability to adapt quickly to changing circumstances and immediate shifts in decisions.
• Utilise MS Office Suite, including Outlook and Teams, for document sharing and communication.
• Maintain a high level of professionalism and composure in a potentially high-pressure, 'hard-charging' environment.

Key Skills: 

• Proven experience as a Personal Assistant or Executive Assistant, supporting multiple senior leaders concurrently (minimum of 2+ senior leaders).
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex diaries and prioritise effectively, understanding the relative importance of tasks without constant senior guidance.
• Experience negotiating and working comfortably with senior-level individuals across diverse personalities.
• A resilient demeanour, capable of handling stressful situations with professionalism.
• Excellent multitasking and stakeholder management skills.
• Proficiency in MS Office Suite (Outlook, Teams). Experience with Concur is advantageous.
• Strong language skills with the ability to communicate clearly and concisely.
• A proactive and enthusiastic attitude, with a willingness to learn and adapt.
• While not essential, experience in Investment Banking or a similar environment would be beneficial.

Work Schedule:

• This role requires 3 days per week in the office: Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday. The other 2 days working from home.

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Join us at Barclays as a Project Manager, where you’ll lead change initiatives that drive the organisation toward its strategic goals. You’ll ensure every project is delivered on time, within budget, and in full compliance with regulatory requirements and internal policies.

To be successful as a Project Manager, you should have experience with:

• Previous experience managing projects with multiple component teams (>15 concurrent component teams).
• Experience of managing deliveries from internal teams and multiple suppliers.
• Extensive experience of managing stakeholders across multiple geographies .

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Extensive financial management experience.
• Project delivery experience within the Financial Services sector.
• Extensive experience delivering change across multiple business units inc. Technology teams, Operations, Sales and Legal.

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 in Northampton.

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.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To 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 well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
• 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 lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

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As a Marketing Analytics Manager, you will bring clarity to large, complex datasets—building dashboards, modelling data, and developing automated reporting that helps the organisation move beyond manual processes. You’ll collaborate with colleagues across Marketing Automation, Digital Investor, Private Banking and other key channels, ensuring our marketing KPIs are measurable, actionable, and aligned to strategic objectives. Your work will play a critical role in shaping how data is used, helping senior leaders understand engagement patterns, optimise campaigns, and better serve clients.

This role offers the opportunity to work within a newly established, forward‑thinking analytics function—truly a greenfield environment. You will build structures, processes, and automation from the ground up, setting the strategy, defining best practices, and driving the evolution of marketing insights as the business continues to grow. You’ll own analytical development end to end, transforming raw data into clear, impactful insights that support confident, data‑led decision‑making.

To be successful as a Marketing Analytics Manager, you should have experience with:

• Using Python, SQL, Tableau and Salesforce to extract, clean and analyse large data sets
• Proven experience in financial services
• Turning data into clear explanations, patterns and actionable insights
• Building dashboards, automated reports and data models
• Improving data processes and helping teams move away from manual work
• Using AI‑based methods, automation tools or new analytical techniques
• Working with different teams to understand what questions need answering and why

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Excellent presentation skills and the ability to explain insights in simple terms
• Good stakeholder management and the ability to adapt your communication style
• Ability to combine numerical insight with observations about client behaviour
• Experience helping build new processes or functions during times of growth
• Awareness of marketing measurement and how teams track performance
• 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.

Purpose of the role

• To collect analyse, and interpret data through statistical and analytical analysis techniques to gain insights into customer behaviour, campaign performance and market trends to drive informed decision-making
• Accountabilities
• Marketing data collection and gathering from various sources, including external/internal datasets, surveys, and social media.
• Marketing data cleaning and preparation, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and consistency and developing marketing data models and predictive analytics.
• Statistical and analytical analysis techniques to explore data, includes the use of descriptive statistics, inferential statistics, data mining, and machine learning algorithms.
• A/B testing and other experimentation methodologies to refine marketing strategies.
• Presentation of findings and insights to stakeholders, providing actionable recommendations for continuous improvement, using various data visualisation, such as charts, graphs, and dashboards to explain complex data in a manner fit for the required audiences.

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.

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Join us as a Java Engineer and play a key role in shaping the future of Barclays’ digital platforms. You’ll be part of a collaborative engineering community, designing, developing, and enhancing software that delivers critical business, platform, and technology capabilities to our customers and colleagues.

To be successful as in this role you should have experience with:

• Previous experience in Java development, with a focus on writing clean, efficient, and maintainable code.
• Hands-on expertise with the Spring framework (Spring Boot, Spring MVC, or related technologies).

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Experience within the financial services industry or other regulated environments.
• 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 will be based in our Northampton office.      

Purpose of the role

• To design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues. 

Accountabilities

• Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools. Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
• Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
• Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
• Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute to the organization’s technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
• Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
• Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.

Analyst Expectations

• Will have an impact on the work of related teams within the area.
• Partner with other functions and business areas.
• Takes responsibility for end results of a team’s operational processing and activities.
• Escalate breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
• Take responsibility for embedding new policies/ procedures adopted due to risk mitigation.
• Advise and influence decision making within own area of expertise.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you own or contribute to. Deliver your work and areas of responsibility in line with relevant rules, regulation and codes of conduct.
• Maintain and continually build an understanding of how own sub-function integrates with function, alongside knowledge of the organisations products, services and processes within the function.
• Demonstrate understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Make evaluative judgements based on the analysis of factual information, paying attention to detail.
• Resolve problems by identifying and selecting solutions through the application of acquired technical experience and will be guided by precedents.
• Guide and persuade team members and communicate complex / sensitive information.
• Act as contact point for stakeholders outside of the immediate function, while building a network of contacts outside team and external to the organisation.