Global Head of Proactive Defense Unit

• Responsible for leading a specialized cybersecurity team that proactively detects, prevents, and mitigates cyber threats to the bank.
• Ensure Barclays applications, services, or environments are defendable by emulating real-world adversaries to identify detection gaps and advise on solutions to improve prevention.
• Lead targeted penetration testing to identify and report exploitable vulnerabilities across infrastructure, application, and cloud environments.
• Ensure continuous visibility into known vulnerabilities across Barclays systems.
• Ensure validation of security controls via routine automated assessments, adversarial exposure validation, and attack path validation.
• Hold accountability for attack surface discovery and finding prioritization.

Purpose of the role:

To monitor the performance of operational controls, implement and manage security controls, and consider lessons learnt in order to protect the bank from potential cyber-attacks and respond to threats.

Accountabilities:

• Management of security monitoring systems, including intrusive prevention and detection systems, to alert, detect, and block potential cybersecurity incidents, and provide a prompt response to restore normal operations with minimized system damage.
• Identification of emerging cybersecurity threats, attack techniques, and technologies to detect/prevent incidents, and collaborate with networks and conferences to gain industry knowledge and expertise.
• Management and analysis of security information and event management systems to collect, correlate, and analyze security logs, events, and alerts/potential threats.
• Triage of data loss prevention alerts to identify and prevent sensitive data from being exfiltrated from the bank's network.
• Management of cybersecurity incidents including remediation and driving to closure.

Manager Director Expectations:

• To manage a large, complex, or diverse function and take accountability for the strategic direction of the function to significantly strengthen successful and efficient businesses and contribute to the strategic initiatives of the Barclays Group.
• Lead and mentor high-performing teams and embed a performance culture aligned to the values of the business. For an individual contributor, they lead organization-wide projects, act as a profound technical expert and thought leader, identifying new and innovative/groundbreaking ways of working. They will train, guide, and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long-term profits, organizational risks, and strategic decisions.
• Drive and achieve overall success and/or competitiveness of a business division by influencing senior leaders and committees.
• Strategically assess and manage risks to protect the business division/function and growth.
• Influence company policy and develop functional procedures in conjunction with senior leaders/strategic positions across the business.
• Demonstrate interpretative thinking for innovative solutions in complex situations and conceptual thinking in completely new situations.
• Exercise management authority to make significant/complex business and strategic decisions that impact the Barclays Group, business division, or function.
• Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally and foster growth for Barclays business.
• Mandated as the business division/functional spokesperson or representative to external bodies and shapes the public image of Barclays.
• Demonstrate exceptional knowledge of how business divisions and functions integrate with the Group to achieve the overall business objectives alongside industry theories and practices within own discipline.
• Maintain broad and comprehensive functional expertise and significant product knowledge.
• Accountable for the control and governance agenda of the business division/function.
• Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to both monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays.

All Senior Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviors to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviors are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energize 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.