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Head of Application Security

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Barclays

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Location:
United States; United Kingdom , Whippany

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Contract Type:
Not provided

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Salary:

220000.00 - 300000.00 USD / Year

Job Description:

Be a part of a place where challenges are measured in billions, qubits and nanoseconds. Build your career in an environment where we’re advancing machine learning, leveraging blockchains, and harnessing FinTech. Working in Barclays technology, you’ll reimagine possibilities: learning and innovating to solve the challenges ahead, delivering for millions of customers. We are shaping the future of financial technology.

Job Responsibility:

  • 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
  • Management of security monitoring systems, including intrusive prevention and detection systems, to alert, detect and block potential cyber security incidents, and provide a prompt response to restore normal operations with minimised system damage
  • Identification of emerging cyber security 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 analyse security logs, events and alerts/potential threats
  • Triage of data loss prevention alerts to identify and prevent sensitive data for being exfiltrated from the banks network
  • Management of cyber security incidents including remediation & driving to closure

Requirements:

  • 10+ years of experience in software security, DevSecOps, or secure SDLC program implementation
  • Deep understanding of modern SDLC processes, DevOps toolchains, and CI/CD automation (GitLab, GitHub, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, etc.)
  • Strong knowledge of SSDF, BSIMM, OWASP SAMM, and secure-by-design principles
  • Demonstrated ability to define governance, metrics, and KRIs for large-scale secure development programs
  • Proven experience leading global teams and influencing development organizations
  • Excellent stakeholder-management and communication skills bridging engineering and risk audiences

Nice to have:

  • Experience in large, distributed financial-services or fintech environments
  • Expertise in cloud-native development security, container orchestration (Kubernetes), and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Helm)
  • Familiarity with policy-as-code frameworks and secure change-management integration
  • Advanced knowledge of SAST/DAST/SCA, open-source risk management, and code-signing pipelines
  • Certifications such as CISSP, CSSLP, or AWS/Azure DevSecOps specialty
  • Demonstrated thought leadership
What we offer:
  • Competitive holiday allowance
  • Life assurance
  • Private medical care
  • Pension contribution

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
February 10, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Hybrid work
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