VP, Resilience Governance and Testing Lead

Join us as a VP, Resilience Governance and Testing Lead. At Barclays, our vision is clear – to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. The Resilience Testing Lead will be responsible for developing, implementing, and sustaining a robust resilience strategy and Operational Recovery Planning and Incident Management framework aligned to industry best practices and regulatory expectations. This role ensures the bank can effectively respond to and recover critical business services under severe but plausible scenarios, minimizing impact to customers, colleagues, and the broader market.

You will lead the planning and execution of resilience exercises—focusing on areas such as Business Response, Workforce resilience, and FMI recovery—while identifying vulnerabilities and driving continuous improvement.

To be successful as a VP, Resilience Governance and Testing Lead, you should have:

• Program management expertise with the ability to create board‑level deliverables
• Ample risk management capability and experience in regulatory engagement
• Ability to engage externally and apply a considerable business lens to resilience activities

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Exceptional stakeholder management and executive presence
• Excellent analytical and communication skills, with the ability to structure complex testing scenarios, interpret results, and articulate insights clearly
• Experience leading operational resilience exercises, particularly complex simulations involving senior leadership, crisis teams, and technology recovery groups

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in this role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is located in Whippany, NJ.

Minimum Salary: $150,000

Maximum Salary: $200,000

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above include only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

Barclays employees are eligible for a suite of competitive and generous employee benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and other paid leave for qualifying circumstances.

This position is eligible for an incentive award.

To develop, implement, and maintain an effective resilience strategy and Operational Recovery Planning and Incident Management framework aligned to industry leading standards and controls and regulatory expectations, to enable the bank to respond and recover important business services to severe but plausible scenarios, and minimise the impact to customers, clients, colleagues and the wider market.

• Socialisation and implementation of the resilience strategy and underpinning framework across the firm (e.g. SMRs and delegates, business / function resilience role owners and all colleagues), ensuring complaint to the standard and controls.
• Development and enhancement of the resilience, crisis and incident management framework to uplift recovery and response capabilities to ensure Important Business Services can continue to operate during disruption events to minimise the impact on customers, clients and the market.
• Operational Recovery Planning and Security Incident Management planning standards and controls enhancement according to industry practice, emerging threats and regulatory requirements.
• Provide oversight to the business and technology recovery capability improvements, and uplifts to third-party (suppliers and Financial Market Infrastructure) recovery capabilities to enable Important Business Services to remain within or mitigate impact tolerance thresholds.
• Communication of the firm’s / business’ resilience position (risks and remediation) through clear and transparent scorecards / dashboards to enable effective investment decisions to the Board and Executive Committees, Control Forums and business stakeholders.
• Enhancement of resilience, crisis management and incident response and recovery capability through sophisticated, regular and adequate testing…