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[Apply on Barclays’s careers site →](https://barclays.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/External_Career_Site_Barclays/job/Canary-Wharf-1-Churchill-Place/Programme-Director-Unified-Data-Platforms-Lead_JR-0000134813) [OpenNash Jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/) / [Barclays](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/barclays/) / Programme Director-Unified Data Platforms Lead ## Job description ### Job Description Purpose of the role Responsible for broader, strategic objectives across multiple projects, with a long-term, cross-functional focus. ### Accountabilities Scope Management: Oversees a collection of related projects that together aim to achieve broader strategic business objectives. Their focus is on the long-term benefits and ensuring the alignment of projects with the organization’s goals. ### Strategic Focus Focuses on strategic, high-level outcomes. They are responsible for the overall success and continuous alignment of projects to the organization’s business strategy. ### Time Horizon Typically works over a longer time horizon, as programs may span months or years and involve multiple phases and projects. ### Stakeholder Management Manages a wide range of stakeholders across various projects, including executives, project managers, and external clients. They ensure communication and alignment across all projects within the program. ### Risk and Issue Management Manages risks and issues at a higher level, focusing on cross-project dependencies and potential impacts on the broader program or business strategy.. ### Resource Management Responsible for allocating resources across multiple projects, balancing priorities, and ensuring that resources are used efficiently across the program. ### Financial Management Manages the overall program budget, tracking the financial health of multiple projects and ensuring that the program as a whole delivers value. ### Metrics Measures success based on the cumulative benefits delivered by all the projects within the program. They look at business outcomes, value creation, and alignment with strategic goals. ### Change Management Deals with change at a macro level, ensuring that changes across projects are managed cohesively and don’t negatively impact the overall program. Director Expectations To manage a business function, providing significant input to function wide strategic initiatives. Contribute to and influence policy and procedures for the function and plan, manage and consult on multiple complex and critical strategic projects, which may be business wide.. They manage the direction of a large team or sub-function, leading other people managers and embedding a performance culture aligned to the values of the business. Or for an individual contributor, they lead organisation wide projects and act as deep technical expert and thought leader, identifying new ways of working and collaborating cross functionally. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions.. Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made outside of own function, offering significant input to function wide strategic initiatives. Manage, coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub-function. Escalates breaches of policies / procedure appropriately. Foster and guide compliance, ensure regulations are observed that relevant processes in place to facilitate adherence. Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to both monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays, when appropriate. Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division / Group to achieve the overall business objectives. Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline alongside up-to-date relevant sector / functional knowledge, and insight into external market developments / initiatives. Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in often complex/ sensitive situations. Exercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions or recommendations within own area. Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally. Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/ businesses divisions. Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division. All Senior 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. 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. Programme Context Lead the Unified Data Programme across Private Banking and Wealth Management, establishing the strategic data foundations required to support business transformation, analytics and future AI initiatives. ### Key Responsibilities Lead the delivery of a complex, multi-year data transformation programme across PBWM. Drive PBWM integration with the Enterprise Data Platform, ensuring business requirements are delivered within enterprise data standards and guardrails. Establish and hydrate the core data platform before expanding consumption and business use cases. Create the trusted data foundations required to enable analytics, AI and wider strategic programmes. Provide strong front-to-back leadership across business, data and technology stakeholders. ### Key Experience Significant experience leading large-scale data or technology transformation programmes. Strong understanding of enterprise data platforms, data strategy and transformation. Proven front-to-back programme leadership in a complex organisation. Strong Private Banking / Wealth Management experience, ideally with deep Private Banking knowledge. Executive-level stakeholder management across business, technology and data. ## At a glance - Posted by the employer: Nov 3, 2026 - First seen by OpenNash: Nov 8, 2026 - Last checked: Nov 8, 2026 - Listed for: 5 days - Location: Canary Wharf - Employment type: Full-time[Apply on Barclays’s careers site →](https://barclays.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/External_Career_Site_Barclays/job/Canary-Wharf-1-Churchill-Place/Programme-Director-Unified-Data-Platforms-Lead_JR-0000134813) ## Hiring at Barclays - Open jobs: 629 - New in the last 7 days: 106 - Tracked since: Jul 16, 2026 [All Barclays jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/barclays/) · [Weekly hiring report](/reports/hiring/) ## More jobs at Barclays ### [Quantitative Analytics Associate Graduate Programme 2027 London](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/barclays/jobs/1728e081dbaf94e486ba/) Canary Wharf ### [Digital Assets Controls](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/barclays/jobs/102f1b51b2268cafea00/) Canary Wharf ### [Director - Real Estate Credit Risk](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/barclays/jobs/87568497df272bd15ae9/) Canary Wharf ### [Director FIG Cash Sales](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/barclays/jobs/d78b96c0c4a2678fb106/) Canary Wharf ### [Director, FX Product](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/barclays/jobs/15eebf15384084fa264b/) Canary Wharf ## Similar jobs at other companies ### [dwp unified communications messaging intern](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/richemont/jobs/4ea0094cddd437a32c95/) Richemont ### [Unified Global Black Belt Sales Specialist](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/microsoft/jobs/b1b08a76e7db85a800c3/) Microsoft · Singapore ### [Unified Communications DevOps Engineer - VOIS](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/vodafone/jobs/623a816163ad5933e675/) Vodafone · Pune, Maharashtra, India ### [Digital Solution Area Specialist - Unified](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/microsoft/jobs/6a9ba9052ed84863b237/) Microsoft · Australia, New South Wales, Sydney ### [Telephony & Unified Communications Engineer](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/basf/jobs/62cc4a275a5b979e47e1/) BASF · URY [Data & Analytics jobs](/functions/data-analytics/) OpenNash lists jobs from employers’ own careers sites and does not handle applications. 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