Controls Professional - Digital Security

Join us as a Controls Professional - Digital Security at Barclays where you'll be primarily responsible for managing digital channel risk and controls, ensuring an effective and compliant control environment. You will be interpreting regulatory and risk requirements, embedding security and cyber‑crime controls into the platform, and owning features to ensure they are secure by design. You will work closely with product, technology, fraud, risk, feature and other teams to balance effective risk management with continuous improvement of the customer experience.

To be successful as a Controls Professional - Digital Security, you should have experience with:

• Great leadership and influencing skills, with the ability to lead and motivate virtual teams to deliver features in a federated environment
• Excellent stakeholder management, negotiation and collaboration skills, working effectively across cyber, fraud, technology, product owners and feature teams
• Solid understanding of digital technologies, including how the app operates, with solid knowledge of cyber security and fraud risk
• Previous experience in working with senior stakeholders, including Directors, and producing clear presentations and board‑level papers supported by great communication skills
• Proven technical background with expertise in technology, cyber and fraud domains; knowledge of AI and emerging technologies is highly beneficial
• Technical product expertise, with the ability to translate regulatory and risk requirements into secure, customer‑focused platform features

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Good understanding of Identity and Access Management (IAM) principles and controls
• CISSP or equivalent security certification
• CISM accreditation or similar risk and information security qualification

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.

This role can be based in either London, Glasgow, Knutsford or Northampton.

To assess the integrity and effectiveness of the banks internal control framework to support the mitigation of risk and protection of the banks operational, financial, and reputational risk.

• Knowledge of business areas, products, processes and platforms to be able to assess risk
• Collaboration with various stakeholders across the bank and business units to improve overall control effectiveness through detailed documentation of control assessments, procedures, and findings.
• Identification and investigation of potential weaknesses and issues within internal controls to promote continuous improvement and risk mitigation aligned to the bank’s control framework, prioritised by its severity to disrupt bank operations.
• Development of reports to communicate key findings from risk assessment including control weaknesses and recommendations to control owners, senior management, and other stakeholders.
• Execution of reviews to determine the effectiveness of the bank’s internal controls framework aligned to established and evolving policies, regulation, and best practice.
• Implementation of adherence to the Barclays Controls Framework and set appropriate methodology of assessing controls against the Controls Framework.

• 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.
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to…