Lead Security Consultant

3 weeks ago


KNUTSFORD, United Kingdom Barclays Bank Full time
Join us as a Lead Security Consultant at Barclays where youll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. Youll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionise our digital offerings, ensuring unparalleled customer experiences.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in the role, such as strong experience in identifying, mitigating, and remediating security weaknesses in technology solutions, infrastructure and platform security, stakeholder management and communication skills to influence solutions, as well as job-specific technical skills. Additional experience in securing Cloud and Big Data platforms, securing Generative AI solutions, or a CISSP certification are highly valued.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for this 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 will be based out of our Knutsford campus.

**Purpose of the role**

To enable ‘secure by design’, supporting the bank’s change programmes, design and implement a 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 in order to identify vulnerabilities within the banks IT systems, applications and infrastructure, ensuring that compensating security controls and countermeasures are embedded in order to enhance security posture and resilience against cyber threats, and provision of timely communication of key findings and recommendations to stakeholders.
● 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, influencing key stakeholders in COO and CSO to create security strategies to enable business and technology evolution.
● 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 businesscustomer as required by the bank’s enterprise risk management framework.
● Collaboration with stakeholders 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 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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