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Join Barclays as an Equities Risk Release Manager, where you will lead end-to-end release planning and coordination across complex, cross-functional environments. You will manage scope, milestones, and dependencies to ensure timely, high-quality delivery aligned to business priorities. Working closely with technology and business stakeholders, you will proactively manage risks, ensure compliance with change governance and regulatory standards, and provide clear, executive-level reporting to support informed decision-making.
Job Responsibility:
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
Requirements:
Release planning & coordination-ability to plan, scope, and manage releases end‑to‑end, ensuring milestones are met across multiple teams and time zones, and that dependencies are actively tracked and resolved
Stakeholder management (Business & IT)-strong capability to work with developers, testers, BAs, and business stakeholders, aligning priorities and managing expectations while maintaining delivery timelines and quality
Risk, control & compliance awareness-understanding of operational risk, change governance, and internal controls, ensuring releases comply with regulatory requirements and internal technology policies
Nice to have:
Technical literacy - comfortable engaging with developers and testers on technical topics (builds, environments, defects, deployment constraints) to challenge assumptions and spot delivery risks early
Resource planning & cross‑team coordination-ability to ensure the right skills and capacity are available at the right time, especially where releases span multiple systems, teams, or geographies
Executive‑level communication & reporting-ability to present release status, risks, and decisions clearly to senior management, using concise, structured updates rather than operational detail