Join Barclays as a Testing & Recovery Analyst within the Tesco Resilience team. This role supports response and recovery capabilities through scenario testing, workforce planning, employee accountability processes, and resilience response activities. Working closely with Testing Managers and business stakeholders, you will design and assess disruption scenarios, analyse potential impacts on customers and services, identify resilience weaknesses, and support the development of effective recovery strategies. You will also produce reporting, contribute to regulatory self‑assessments, and ensure testing activities meet audit and operational resilience requirements. The ideal candidate will have operational resilience experience, strong analytical skills, and the ability to engage confidently with a wide range of stakeholders.
Key Skills
- Strong understanding of FCA and PRA Operational Resilience requirements and their application within a regulated environment.
- Experience designing and facilitating realistic resilience testing, simulation exercises, and workshops to validate business continuity, crisis management, and operational resilience capabilities.
- Ability to produce high‑quality test reports, review response and recovery playbooks, and deliver clear management information and recommendations.
Highly Valued Skills
- Understanding of IT recovery, critical business services, and end‑to‑end operational processes.
- Ability to support recovery activities during disruptions and capture lessons learned to drive continuous improvement.
- Experience assessing risks, identifying resilience gaps, and recommending practical mitigation and recovery solutions.
- Good understanding of technology resilience concepts, including the potential impact of disruptive events and the risks associated with incident management.
- Experience using ServiceNow.
The successful candidate can be based in Glasgow Campus or Edinburgh (South Gyle Crescent).
Purpose of the Role
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.
Accountabilities
- Socialise and implement the resilience strategy and underpinning framework across the firm (e.g. SMRs and delegates, business/function resilience role owners and all colleagues), ensuring compliance to the standard and controls.
- Develop and enhance 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.
- Enhance Operational Recovery Planning and Security Incident Management planning standards and controls 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.
- Communicate 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.
- Enhance resilience, crisis management and incident response and recovery capability through sophisticated, regular and adequate testing coverage to demonstrate Important Business Services’ ability to recover within impact tolerance for a severe but plausible scenario.
- Assure that services and products are built resiliently by the business through the change management process (NAPAs, DRAs, material change process).
- Remain abreast of resilience and crisis and incident management developments, regulatory policy requirements and the emerging landscape.
- Mitigate the impact of unexpected incidents by identifying, responding to and enabling the resolution of events that threaten the services, operations, infrastructure, colleagues and clients of the bank.
- Execute responses to reported incidents and potential threats from various channels including intelligence, email, phone and monitoring systems prioritised by the assessed or actual impact to the bank.
- Document and analyse past prioritised incident details, the steps to resolution and the lessons learned to support identification and implementation of preventative measures and process improvements.
Analyst Expectations
- Perform prescribed activities in a timely manner and to a high standard consistently driving continuous improvement.
- Have in‑depth technical knowledge and experience in the assigned area of expertise.
- Underpinning principles and concepts within the area of expertise are thoroughly understood.
- 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.
- For an individual contributor, develop technical expertise in the work area, acting as an adviser where appropriate.
- 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 the 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 area of responsibility in line with relevant rules, regulation and codes of conduct.
- Maintain and continually build an understanding of how your sub‑function integrates with the function, alongside knowledge of the organisation’s products and 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 a contact point for stakeholders outside the immediate function while building a network of contacts outside the 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.
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