UAE Technology Controls Officer

Technology Controls Officer | Barclays | Dubai

Join Barclays as a Technology Controls Officer and play a key role in strengthening the technology risk and control environment across our global platforms.

In this role, you will partner closely with technology teams across APAC and MEA, ensuring that systems are secure, resilient, and aligned with Barclays’ risk framework and regulatory expectations. Acting as a trusted advisor to engineering and technology stakeholders, you will help embed strong risk and control practices while supporting the delivery of reliable and innovative technology solutions.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who enjoys working at the intersection of technology, risk, and governance within a global banking environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as a technology risk and control partner to engineering and platform teams across multiple technology environments.
• Identify and assess technology risks, ensuring appropriate controls are implemented and operating effectively.
• Support governance, regulatory compliance, and audit engagements relating to technology controls.
• Provide guidance on resilience, operational readiness, and risk management across technology platforms.
• Track and manage control improvements and remediation activities where gaps are identified.
• Produce clear risk reporting and insights for senior stakeholders and governance forums.
• Collaborate with technology, risk, and business teams to strengthen the overall technology control environment.
  
  
  

Essential Criteria

• Experience in technology risk, IT controls, technology governance, or operational risk.
• Experience working within banking, financial services, or another regulated environment.
• Strong understanding of technology risk frameworks, control environments, and governance processes.
• Experience supporting internal or external audits, regulatory requirements, or control testing activities.
• Ability to partner effectively with technology teams and senior stakeholders.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
  
  
  

Desirable Criteria

• Professional certifications such as CISA, CISM, CISSP, CRISC, or similar.
• Experience working across global or multi-regional technology environments.
• Knowledge of technology resilience, incident management, or business continuity frameworks.
• Experience supporting technology transformation or large-scale change programmes.
  
  
  

This role is based in Dubai.

You may be assessed on the 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.

Purpose of the role

To assess the integrity and effectiveness of the banks internal control framework to support the mitigation of risk and protection of the banks operational, financial, and reputational risk.

Accountabilities

• Knowledge of business areas, products, processes and platforms to be able to assess risk
• Collaboration with various stakeholders across the bank and business units to improve overall control effectiveness through detailed documentation of control assessments, procedures, and findings.
• Identification and investigation of potential weaknesses and issues within internal controls to promote continuous improvement and risk mitigation aligned to the bank’s control framework, prioritised by its severity to disrupt bank operations.
• Development of reports to communicate key findings from risk assessment including control weaknesses and recommendations to control owners, senior management, and other stakeholders.
• Execution of reviews to determine the effectiveness of the banks internal controls framework aligned to established and evolving policies, regulation, and best practice.
• Implementation of adherence to the Barclays Controls Framework and set appropriate methodology of assessing controls against the Controls Framework.
  
  
  

Vice President Expectations

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures..
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..
• 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..
• OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills 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.

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