Network Security Governance Specialist

Join Us at Barclays as a Network Security Governance Specialist. Are you passionate about strengthening security governance, influencing strategic decisions, and ensuring robust network security controls across a complex technology landscape? We are looking for a Network Security Governance Specialist to play a pivotal role in protecting our organisation's digital infrastructure while driving effective risk management and compliance practices. As a Network Security Governance Specialist, you will be responsible for establishing, maintaining, and enhancing governance frameworks that ensure network security risks are effectively identified, managed, and mitigated.

Working closely with security, infrastructure, architecture, risk, compliance, and business stakeholders, you will help embed security best practices and provide expert guidance to support informed decision-making.

• Strong experience designing and implementing security governance frameworks.
• Deep understanding of risk management methodologies and control environments.
• Ability to assess, prioritise, and communicate security risks effectively.

• Comprehensive knowledge of network security technologies, architectures, and principles.
• Experience evaluating security controls across enterprise network environments.
• Strong understanding of secure network design, segmentation, and defence-in-depth strategies.

• Exceptional communication and presentation skills.
• Proven ability to engage and influence stakeholders at all organisational levels.
• Experience translating complex technical concepts into clear business language.

• Knowledge of relevant regulatory frameworks and industry standards.
• Experience supporting internal and external audits.
• Understanding of compliance obligations within complex enterprise environments.

• Ability to utilise metrics, reporting, and analytics to support security decision-making.
• Experience developing risk dashboards and governance reporting.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.

• Experience conducting control testing, assurance reviews, and effectiveness assessments.
• Ability to identify gaps, track remediation activities, and drive continuous improvement.
• Knowledge of assurance methodologies and best practices.

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

To provide a primary liaison service between the business, technology, and security functions. In order to ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information, and support the mitigation of security risk.

• 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 banks operations and data and guide the implementation of mitigation strategies and communicate findings to relevant findings to relevant senior stakeholders.
• Collaboration with business units to develop and implement security policies and procedures for the banks operations aligned to the risk management framework.
• Management of the implementation, testing and monitoring of security controls across the banks 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.

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and elevate breaches of policies/procedures..
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..
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