Senior Security Consultant reference: 0000071218

Barclays is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Security Consultant to join their dynamic team. This is an exceptional opportunity for a security professional looking to shape the future of technology within a leading financial institution. If you're passionate about creating secure environments and driving innovation, this role offers a compelling career path.

At Barclays, you won't just be adapting to the future; you'll be instrumental in creating it. This client-focused role centers on providing technical advisory services to ensure the secure design and implementation of changes across a diverse range of business areas, technologies, and platforms. You will be a key player in safeguarding the bank's systems and reputation.

What You'll Do & Key Advantages:

• Shape Secure Design: Provide essential direction and guidance to stakeholders, ensuring system security is paramount throughout change initiatives. This proactive approach is a significant advantage, allowing you to influence security from the outset rather than reacting to it.
• Drive Secure-by-Design: Collaborate closely with change delivery teams to embed secure-by-design principles. You'll be at the forefront of identifying and tracking critical security requirements, a crucial element in maintaining a robust security posture.
• Holistic Product Lifecycle Support: Deliver comprehensive product and project support, reviewing capabilities throughout the entire development lifecycle. This provides valuable exposure to a wide array of technologies and projects, enhancing your expertise.
• Risk Articulation and Mitigation: Highlight and articulate information and cyber security risks to stakeholders, enabling informed decision-making and effective mitigation strategies.
• Broad Security Domain Exposure: This role covers a comprehensive spectrum of security domains, including data security, risk management, asset security, security architecture and engineering (including cloud security), network security, security operations, software development, assurance testing, and identity and access management (IAM). This breadth of exposure is a significant career development advantage.
• Enable DevSecOps and "Shift Left": Actively facilitate DevSecOps practices and "shift left" security by engaging early with business plans, opportunities, and technology designs. This proactive engagement empowers you to influence security strategies and align them with business and technology evolution.
• Strategic Influence: Provide security reviews for third-party technology products and services, directly influencing CISO, CIO, and Product Team functions and contributing to strategic decisions.
• Incident Response and Investigation: Collaborate with IT teams to support incident response and investigations, leveraging your deep understanding of the bank's technology systems and sharing crucial security insights.
• Policy and Standards Development: Participate in the development and maintenance of security policies, standards, and procedures, ensuring alignment with the bank's risk tolerance, regulatory requirements, and industry best practices.

Key Considerations for Your Career Path:

• Core Experience: Success in this role hinges on your proven ability to identify, mitigate, and remediate security weaknesses in technology solutions, coupled with strong infrastructure and platform security knowledge.
• Influence and Communication: Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills are vital for influencing solutions and ensuring security objectives are met.
• Valued Qualifications: While not always mandatory, a formal Cyber Security qualification (e.g., Degree/Masters or CISSP certification) will significantly strengthen your application and demonstrate a commitment to the field.
• Emerging Technologies: Experience in securing Cloud and Big Data platforms is highly sought after. Furthermore, experience with securing Generative AI solutions positions you at the cutting edge of cybersecurity innovation.
• Strategic Thinking: You will be assessed on critical skills such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, and digital and technology proficiency, alongside your job-specific technical skills. This highlights the role's emphasis on strategic contributions.
• Leadership Potential (Individual Contributor or Manager): Depending on the specific placement, you might operate as a subject matter expert guiding technical direction and leading collaborative assignments, or if managing a team, you'll define strategies, plan resources, and foster a thriving environment. Regardless, leadership and accountability in risk management are key expectations.
• Barclays Values and Mindset: A commitment to Barclays' core values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship, along with the Barclays Mindset of Empower, Challenge, and Drive, is fundamental to success and career progression within the organization.

This role, based in our Northampton office, presents a unique opportunity to contribute significantly to a forward-thinking organization. If you are a proactive, skilled security professional eager to make a tangible impact and advance your career in a challenging and rewarding environment, we encourage you to explore this exciting opportunity.