Security Consultant

**Date live**:
25/06/2025
**Business Area**:
Chief Information Security Office
**Area of Expertise**:
Technology
**Contract**:
Permanent
**Reference Code**:
JR-0000031335
Be a part of a place where challenges are measured in billions, qubits and nanoseconds. Build your career in an environment where we’re advancing machine learning, leveraging blockchains, and harnessing FinTech. Working in Barclays technology, you’ll reimagine possibilities: learning and innovating to solve the challenges ahead, delivering for millions of customers.
We are shaping the future of financial technology.
Why not join us and make it happen here?
Join Barclays as a Security Consultant, where you will lead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving operational excellence. In this position, you will be part of the Group Technology CISO team, enabling faster and more effective adoption of new technologies while providing expert support and guidance to our engineers and business. You will also manage relationships to minimise escalations and deliver key support to keep Barclays secure. This role offers exposure to cutting-edge domains, including Cloud, Big Data, and Generative AI.
To be successful in the Group Technology CISO team, you will need the following:
An understanding of the intent of security controls and how they manage risk.
Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills to influence and drive effective solutions.
Collaboration with Stakeholders to understand, assess and balance operational requirements with the banks security posture.
**Some other highly valued skills may include**:
Cyber Security qualification, such as a degree, master’s, or CISSP certification.
An understanding of infrastructure and platform security controls.
Proficiency in identifying, mitigating, and remediating security weaknesses in technology solutions.
Hands-on experience securing enterprise systems, including M365, AWS, GCP and operating systems like Windows and Linux.
Expertise in securing Infrastructure, Cloud and Big Data platforms.
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.
This role will be based in Knutsford.
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.
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 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.
Assistant Vice President Expectations
To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
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 lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments