Lead Security Consultant

Join Us at Barclays

Join us at Barclays where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionise our digital offerings, ensuring unparalleled customer experiences.

Role Overview

To enable ‘secure by design’, supporting the bank’s change programmes, and to design and implement secure systems and architecture across a broad set of security domains. These include:

• Data security
• Security risk management
• Asset security
• Security architecture and engineering (incl. cloud security)
• Communications and networks
• Security operations
• Software development
• Security assurance testing
• Identity and access management (IAM)

Accountabilities

• Control function or security guild responsible for technology change oversight and governance.
• Execution of security risk assessments and building threat models during the change & development lifecycle to identify vulnerabilities within IT systems, applications, and infrastructure, ensuring compensating security controls and countermeasures are embedded to enhance security posture and resilience against cyber threats.
• Enablement of DevSecOps (and shift left), by providing engagement channels for customers and stakeholders who wish to engage early seeking security advice and input into their business plans and opportunities, or technology change designs.
• Support and guidance to CISO, CIO and Product Team functions providing security reviews for prospective 3rd party technology products and services.
• Transfer of residual risks to the business/customer as required by the bank’s enterprise risk management framework.
• Collaboration with stakeholder and IT teams to support incident response and investigations using their knowledge of the banks technology systems sharing security insights.
• Participation in the development and maintenance of security policies, standards, and procedures aligned to the banks risk tolerance, regulatory requirements, and industry best practice.

Vice President Expectations

• 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's 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 to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

Expectations for All Colleagues

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.