About the Role
Provide colleague-facing IT support across a modern Mac, Google Workspace and SaaS-based workplace environment. This role involves frontline support, device build and readiness, access and application fulfillment, meeting room/collaboration support, onsite support, and knowledge enablement, with escalation into specialist teams as needed. This is a greenfield opportunity to be involved in the rollout of the Mac estate across the organization and help define support processes for Barclaycard Payments.
Responsibilities
- Provide frontline support and useful resources to departments and colleagues across the bank with everyday IT problems, issues and requests.
- Deliver high-quality support and problem-solving through various communication channels to resolve technology issues related to products and applications, ensuring stakeholders are updated.
- Develop reports and dashboards to visualize and communicate key findings and recommendations for improvement.
- Manage user requests including password resets, software installation, access provisioning, and equipment troubleshooting.
- Collect and maintain incidents, requests, and resolutions to identify trends, common issues, and track service metrics.
- Maintain a knowledge base with documentation of resolved cases for future reference and self-service.
- Assess the severity and urgency of reported issues to support prioritization.
- Develop and provide user training on applications, systems, and equipment.
- Perform prescribed activities in a timely manner and to a high standard, driving continuous improvement.
- Lead and supervise a team, guiding professional development, allocating work, and coordinating resources (if applicable).
- Develop technical expertise and act as an advisor (if an individual contributor).
- Partner with other functions and business areas.
- Take responsibility for end results of a team’s operational processing and activities.
- Escalate breaches of policies/procedures appropriately.
- Take responsibility for embedding new policies/procedures.
- Advise and influence decision-making within own area of expertise.
- Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls.
- Deliver work in line with relevant rules, regulations, and codes of conduct.
- Maintain and build understanding of how own sub-function integrates with the function and the organization's products, services, and processes.
- Demonstrate understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to objectives.
- Make evaluative judgments based on factual analysis, paying attention to detail.
- Resolve problems by identifying and selecting solutions using technical experience and guided by precedents.
- Guide and persuade team members and communicate complex/sensitive information.
- Act as a contact point for stakeholders outside the immediate function and build a network outside the team and organization.
- Demonstrate Barclays Values (Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, Stewardship) and Mindset (Empower, Challenge, Drive).
Requirements
- Experience providing multi-channel L1/L2 IT support across end-user services and business applications.
- Incident management and customer service capability in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to follow defined runbooks and escalate effectively within ITSM processes.
- Mac Support experience.
- Experience supporting digital workplace tooling (Collaboration, EUC services, especially Google Workspace).
- Experience of meeting room support and townhall event spaces.
- Risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, and digital and technology skills may be assessed.
- Job-specific technical skills will be assessed.
Skills
- Mac Support
- Google Workspace
- SaaS
- ITSM
- JiraSM
- ServiceNow
- Digital workplace tooling
- Collaboration
- EUC services
- Meeting room support
- Townhall event spaces
- Risk and controls
- Change and transformation
- Business acumen
- Strategic thinking
- Digital and technology
Location
- London
Work Type
- Office-based
- Weekend and evening working may be required on occasion
Experience Level
- Requires in-depth technical knowledge and experience in their assigned area of expertise
- Experience providing multi-channel L1/L2 IT support
About the Company
- Barclays’ payments acceptance business provides critical infrastructure to the UK economy, processing billions of pounds of payments annually for both small businesses and domestic and international corporate clients.
- In April 2025, Barclays announced a long-term partnership with Brookfield Asset Management to grow and transform the payments acceptance business by broadening the range of services offered and enhancing the experience for clients.
- Barclays will invest approximately £400m in the new business, with performance-linked incentives driving alignment between the partners.
- Barclays and Brookfield will work to create a standalone entity over time, continuing to use the Barclaycard Payments (BPL) brand and acting as the sole payments acceptance services provider to Barclays’ clients for a minimum of ten years.
