KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Provide end to end leadership across the BUK CDAO team supporting the Tesco Bank data integration and transformation.
• Ensure alignment of the transformation agenda with the BUK Data Strategy, ensuring that all data products and platforms support enterprise-wide reuse and insight generation
• Execute the delivery of the Sierra Programme across CDAO accountabilities, guiding and coaching technical delivery managers
• Utilise agile delivery and cross-functional collaboration - coordinate across BUK and Tesco Bank feature teams, ensuring alignment, velocity, and resolution of delivery blockers
• Maintain a robust governance framework, aligned to Barclays Standards, to track progress, manage risks, and ensure transparency across delivery
• Execute proactive risk management to protect integration timelines and support successful delivery across the organisation
• Act as a key point of contact for senior leadership and stakeholders, driving collaboration across BUK and Tesco Bank, and representing the programme at relevant governance forums
• Embedding Control Frameworks, Records Management, and Data Domain Ownership to ensure trusted, compliant, and well-governed data delivery
• Candidates will have relevant domain experience in large scale Enterprise, in provisioning and use of data.

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 the execution of sprints.
• Collaboration with customers and business teams to manage and implement customer trails to support the proposal of technically feasible solutions, and effort and timeline expectations.
• Collaboration 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 banks objectives, regulation and security policies.
• Identification, assessment, and mitigation of risks associated with technical projects to prepare the bank for potential challenges.
• Management of change requests and communication with stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.
• Management of vendor relations involved in technical projects to ensure they deliver according to agreed terms.
• Stay abreast of the latest industry technology trends and technologies, to evaluate and adopt new approaches to improving deliver outcomes and to foster a culture of continuous learning, technical excellence and growth.

To manage the efficient delivery of large-scale technical projects and capabilities across the bank and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to understand their needs and expectations throughout the software product lifecycle, adhering to agreed time, budget and quality requirements.