Networks Engineer

Job Description

Purpose of the role

To establish and nurture profitable partnerships with both corporate and individual clients. It's the bridge between the bank's offerings and clients' needs, ensuring mutual benefit and long-term success. 

Accountabilities

• Management of client relationships to identify the clients financial goals, challenges, and risk tolerance to support the analysis of data obtained from various sources, including the investment portfolio and cash flow, to identify trends, insights, areas for improvement and additional services to support client needs.
• Research and understanding of the client's industry trends, regulatory landscape, and competitive environment to inform strategic recommendations.
• Design of customised solutions that address the client's specific needs and objectives, incorporating a range of products and services from the bank's portfolio.
• Communication of the value proposition of proposed solutions, justification of recommendations, and negotiation of terms that are beneficial for both the client and the bank.
• Provision of guidance to clients to support their financial decisions, offering expert investment advice, risk management and wealth management strategies support, and updates on market trends to ensure a positive and continuous relationship.
• Assessment of financial, legal, and operational risks associated with client relationships, and implementation of measures to minimise potential losses.
• Documentation of all client interactions, transactions, and agreements to ensure transparency and auditability, and communicate findings effectively to support product development, service offerings, and the overall bank strategy.
• Monitoring of client satisfaction, revenue generated, and other relevant metrics to evaluate the effectiveness of relationship management efforts.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

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.

Join us as a Network Engineer in the Complex Delivery team at Barclays, where you will undertake a role as an SME in one or more technologies and lead on transformational programs and networks led initiatives. You'll be responsible for creating designs which are in line with current architecture guidelines and documentation is fit for purpose, as well as ensure compliance to all network disciplines including participation in governance, change management and risk/audit requirements.

To be successful as a Complex Delivery Network Engineer you should have experience in a combination of the below technologies:

• Cisco Routing and Switching (Cisco ACI, NXOS, Arista, ASR, CSR, CSP, EVPN, NDFC and Cisco campus Wi-Fi)
• F5 Load Balancers (LTM + GTM. iRules, Policies, Client/Server TLS, mutual authentication, troubleshooting API/HTTP calls )
• Fortinet FortiGate, incl FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer, Cisco Firepower/ASA

Some other highly valued skills and certifications include:

• Juniper Routing and Switching
• Bluecoat / Symantec Proxy / zScaler / Infoblox / Forescout / NetScaler
• Cisco Certified - minimum CCNP Enterprise, FortiGate Associate or Professional and F5 LTM/GTM at 'Certified Technical Specialist' or equivalent level (one or multiple of these certifications)

You may be assessed on 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.

This role can be based out of both Knutsford and Glasgow.