Technology Resilience Analyst

Join us as a Technology Resilience Analyst sitting within Technology Resilience. Technology Resilience support a diverse set of Transformation initiative spanning Cyber and Technology Resilience across the enterprise.   This role offers the opportunity to drive transformation at a group level across each of the business lines. Both Cyber and Resilience remain at the top of industry priorities, offering the opportunity to be at the cutting edge of best practice and technology innovation.

This will offer the successful candidate the opportunity to work as part of a collaborative, dynamic and problem solving centric team, that drives tangible risk reduction for the firm.

To be successful as a Technology Resilience Analyst you should have experience with:

Technology Background

• Experience in enterprise technology environments, ideally with exposure to infrastructure, systems recovery, or operational tooling.
• Able to understand how systems interconnect and behave during recovery scenarios.

Data Analysis

• Comfortable working with large datasets, reports, and tooling outputs.
• Ability to interpret data for progress tracking, testing outcomes, and evidence generation.
• Proficient in Excel and PowerPoint - able to build structured reports, dashboards, and visual summaries.

Soft Skills

• Organised, proactive, and able to manage workstream cadence.
• Excellent communicator who can engage across teams and functions.
• Project management mindset - able to forward plan, track milestones, and manage dependencies.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

Problem Solving & Critical Thinking

• Able to work through complex scenarios, identify gaps, and support resolution planning.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and proposing structured approaches.

Testing & Validation Support

• Experience supporting scenario-based testing or simulations.
• Able to help capture outcomes, lessons learned, and improvement opportunities.

Governance & Assurance Awareness

• Familiarity with structured reporting, audit readiness, and evidence collation.
• Able to support documentation and updates for internal forums and external reviews.

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

Location of this role will be Knutsford

Purpose of the role

To support the organisation, achieve its strategic objectives  by ensuring the business is ready to receive the agreed change (address business problems and opportunities), ensuring that change initiatives are successfully assessed and implemented to enable them to be embedded in the organisation.  

Accountabilities

• Identification and analysis of business impact and opportunities that require change within the organisation.
• Development of business readiness strategies that will help to ensure the successful implementation of change initiatives.
• Communication with stakeholders, including senior management, project teams, and external partners, to ensure that they are informed about change initiatives and that their needs and expectations are being met.
• Collaboration with Client Readiness, Operational Readiness & Tech Delivery to ensure business, sales, operations, client servicing and functional partners are prepared for a smooth transition of technology delivery into BAU (including Target Operating Model, Training, Communications, Service Agreements.) .
• Management of resistance to change, ensuring that stakeholders are engaged and that their concerns are addressed.
• Review of business readiness plans and status reports in conjunction with change delivery managers to ensure business readiness activities completed on time including newly identified risks, issues and dependencies.
• Collaboration with project teams to ensure that change initiatives are aligned with project objectives and that change management activities are integrated into project plans.
• Provision of guidance and support to business stakeholders, ensuring that they have the necessary skills and knowledge to implement change initiatives successfully.

Analyst Expectations

• To perform prescribed activities in a timely manner and to a high standard consistently driving continuous improvement.
• Requires in-depth technical knowledge and experience in their assigned area of expertise
• Thorough understanding of the underlying principles and concepts within the area of expertise
• They lead and supervise a team, guiding and supporting professional development, allocating work requirements and coordinating team resources.
• 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 develop technical expertise in work area, acting as an advisor where appropriate.
• 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.

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.