Senior Security Consultant

Join Barclays as a **Senior Security Consultant**, where you’ll lead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and operational excellence. In this role, you will play a pivotal role in designing and implementing security changes across diverse business areas, technologies, and platforms, while delivering Security Solutions Consultancy services. Collaborate with stakeholders to deliver secure, cost-effective solutions that mitigate risks and minimize rework. Identify opportunities to enhance CSO capabilities, provide security guidance to stakeholders, and support projects throughout the system development lifecycle to address and articulate information security risks.

**To be successful as a Senior Security Consultant, you will need the following**:

- Relevant security qualifications.
- A solid understanding of security solutions from people, process, and technology perspectives, including controls, technologies, and assessment methods.
- Excellent relationship, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with agility in decision-making and the ability to work effectively under pressure in dynamic environments.

**Some other highly valued skills may include**:

- Experience in a consultancy practice, with exposure to diverse projects and clients.
- Knowledge of security control integration best practices.
- Familiarity with core development methodologies and technologies.
- Strong writing, networking, and independent leadership abilities.
- Knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g., AWS), DevOps pipelines, and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).

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 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**
- Act as an information security authority to business and technology clients.
- Influence the information security roadmaps and solutions for products, channels, programmes and projects.
- Proactive delivery of an assignment including initiating contact with the Client, analysis of client objectives, identification of information security responses and requirements, taking responsibility for assignment planning, delivery management, through to gaining user acceptance and sign-off for CSO outputs.
- Ensure the end-to-end information security integrity and quality of solutions and product releases.
- Own the delivery of Security Solutions services to customers, providing timely output to stakeholders.
- Undertake and facilitate information and information security assessments/workshops for solutions during various development phases to ensure security weaknesses are identified and correctly managed, proposing solutions as required.
- Work with stakeholders to ensure residual risks are adequately mitigated to the degree that meets the risk appetite of the business.
- Timely and accurate recording of client interaction using appropriate systems.
- Support for the wider delivery and success of Security Solutions Consultancy services.

**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 als