Barclays
Barclays is a British universal bank. Our businesses include consumer banking, as well as a top-tier, global corporate and investment bank.
To provide a primary liaison service between the business, technology, and security functions, ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information, and supporting the mitigation of security risk.
Accountabilities:
* Collaboration with stakeholders to understand their security requirements in business processes and IT projects, to enhance overall risk management.
* Execution of risk assessments to identify and prioritise potential cybersecurity threats that could impact the bank's operations and data, guiding the implementation of mitigation strategies and communicating findings to relevant senior stakeholders.
* Collaboration with business units to develop and implement security policies and procedures for the bank's operations aligned to the risk management framework.
* Management of the implementation, testing, and monitoring of security controls across the bank's IT systems to ensure the effectiveness of controls and mitigation of risk.
* Execution of training content and sessions to educate employees, enhance cybersecurity awareness, and provide guidance on safe online practices.
* Management of complex cybersecurity incidents by collaborating with IT teams and response experts to effectively resolve cases through analysis, expertise support, and project supervision.
* Identification of emerging cybersecurity trends, threats, and new technologies to address potential risks by advocating the adoption of new security solutions.
* Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made outside of own function, offering significant input to function-wide strategic initiatives.
* Manage, coordinate, and enable resourcing, budgeting, and policy creation for a significant sub-function.
* Escalate breaches of policies/procedures appropriately.
* Foster and guide compliance, ensuring regulations are observed and relevant processes are in place to facilitate adherence.
* Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays, when appropriate.
* Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division/group to achieve overall business objectives.
* Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline alongside up-to-date relevant sector/functional knowledge, and insight into external market developments/initiatives.
* Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in often complex/sensitive situations.
* Exercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions or recommendations within own area.
* Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally.
* Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/business divisions.
* Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division.
All Senior 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.
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.
The role will provide a direct interface to the Barclays Cloud platforms team, which provides the infrastructure to run Windows, Linux, and Containers instances hosting applications plus SQL and NoSQL database engines.
The ideal candidate will have security-aligned experience with associated Public Cloud technologies including AWS, Azure, and GCP, Private Cloud technologies including VMware and Kubernetes distributions such as Redhat, Rancher, or Tanzu, and the underlying compute, network, and storage infrastructure. Experience with Cloud-aligned security and endpoint/access tooling such as Prisma, Wiz, Microsoft Defender, Tenable, Tanium, and Powerbroker is also required.
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