Security Consultant

Join Barclays as a Security Consultant

At Barclays, we are shaping the future of secure innovation by embedding cutting‑edge AI technologies across our digital ecosystem. We are seeking a forward‑thinking Security Consultant to help safeguard our AI‑driven solutions, ensuring they are secure, compliant, and resilient against evolving threats. This is an exciting opportunity to work at the forefront of Gen AI, cloud security, and data protection, driving secure design across transformative initiatives.

To be successful as a Security Consultant, you should have experience with

• Conduct AI security architecture and solution design reviews to ensure secure‑by‑design implementation
• Demonstrate strong knowledge of Gen AI, LLM, and agentic AI threats (e.g., prompt injection, model misuse, data leakage)
• Apply deep expertise in cloud, SaaS, and data protection security across modern platforms

Some other highly valued skills may include

• Experience in AI governance and risk management frameworks
• Exposure to conversational AI, contact centre technologies, or digital channels
• Awareness of AI observability, monitoring, and assurance practices

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.

The location for the role is Knutsford/Manchester.

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).

• Control function or security guild responsible for technology change oversight and governance.
• Execution of security risk assessments and building threat models during the change & development lifecycle in order to identify vulnerabilities within the banks IT systems, applications and infrastructure, ensuring that compensating security controls and countermeasures are embedded in order to enhance security posture and resilience against cyber threats provision of timely communication of key findings and recommendations to stakeholders.
• Enablement of Dev Sec Ops  (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, 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.

• 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…