# VP - Platform Portfolio Lead

**Company**: Barclays
**Location**: Whippany, Jefferson Park
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $155,000 - $225,000
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking a Vice President - Platform Portfolio Lead to join our team in Whippany, NJ.

As a VP - Platform Portfolio Lead, you will be accountable for defining and driving the overarching strategy, multi-year roadmap, and end-to-end execution of the digital channels platform portfolio. You will partner closely with senior business and technology stakeholders to align platform capabilities with enterprise priorities, ensuring delivery against strategic objectives.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Lead the portfolio management team in delivering successful projects, ensuring portfolio management processes and practices are aligned with controls and governance standards.

- Monitor portfolio performance, track project progress, manage budgets, identify thematic risks and issues, and report on portfolio status to senior management.

- Manage portfolio documentation, including aggregation of portfolio book of work, schedules, and budgets.

- Facilitate portfolio governance, ensuring projects are aligned with the organisation's strategic objectives and controls and governance standards.

- Manage the portfolio Book of Work, outlining the sequence and dependencies of change initiatives.

- Facilitate change management activities to ensure successful implementation and embedding of change initiatives.

- Continuously improve portfolio management practices, identifying areas for improvement and implementing changes.

- Collaborate with stakeholders, including senior management, project teams, and external partners.

**Requirements:**

- Proven leadership in delivering enterprise-scale technology portfolios and complex programs.

- Considerable record of achievement in managing multi-million pound technology portfolios with consistent on-time, on-budget delivery and measurable outcomes.

- Effective executive stakeholder engagement and communication.

- Deep expertise in Agile and scaled delivery frameworks (Scrum, SAFe, Kanban).

- Considerable strategic, financial, and governance acumen.

**Preferred Skills:**

- Ample financial services expertise with deep understanding of banking operations, regulatory frameworks, and industry challenges.

- Solid technical foundation across software engineering, architecture, and infrastructure domains.

- Relevant industry certifications spanning Agile, Product, Portfolio Management, and Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure).

- Proven experience managing vendors, third-party suppliers, and strategic partnerships.

**Benefits:**

- Competitive salary ($155,000 - $225,000)

- Medical, dental, and vision coverage

- 401(k)

- Life insurance

- Paid leave for qualifying circumstances

- Eligibility for an incentive award

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## Skills

### Required
- Agile
- Scrum
- SAFe
- Kanban
- Portfolio Management
- Financial Services
- Banking Operations
- Regulatory Frameworks

### Nice to have
- Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure)
- Software Engineering
- Architecture
- Infrastructure Domains
- Vendor Management
- Strategic Partnerships

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