Senior Security Consultant

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Join Us at Barclays as a Senior Security Consultant. At Barclays, we are committed to protecting our customers, colleagues, and business through innovative and resilient cyber security practices. We are seeking a highly capable and forward-thinking Senior Security Consultant to join our growing security team. This is an exciting opportunity for a security professional who combines deep technical expertise with strong interpersonal capabilities and the ability to think critically in fast-paced environments.

Critical Skills

• Strong technical knowledge across cyber security domains including cryptography, application security, and IT networks.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to build trusted relationships across teams and stakeholders.
• Agility in thought processes with the ability to adapt quickly and solve complex security challenges.

Desirable Skills

• Strong writing skills with the ability to produce clear and concise security documentation and reports.
• Ability to work independently while acting as a thought leader within the organisation.
• Strong networking skills with the capability to influence, collaborate, and build professional relationships effectively.

This role is based in Knutsford

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 also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.