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Head of Data Security Protection Operations

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The Head of Data Protection provides senior leadership and accountability for operational data protection controls, ensuring consistent, effective protection of sensitive and personal data across the enterprise. The role closes gaps in control consistency, remediation quality, and strategic planning across data protection technologies and processes.

Job Responsibility:

  • Own and coordinate enterprise data protection requirements, ensuring controls operate consistently across all data states and egress channels
  • Lead Data Protection Operations, including encryption, DLP, data scanning, obfuscation, and protection tooling
  • Define and maintain the data protection control roadmap, addressing gaps in coverage, scalability, and strategic planning
  • Understanding of Data Security Posture Management Solution
  • Improve the quality, timeliness, and consistency of remediation for data protection control failures
  • Provide senior oversight of DLP Operations, trend analysis, and rule optimisation across channels
  • Ensure alignment between governance expectations (2LoD) and operational execution (1LoD)
  • Partner closely with Data Security Governance to ensure operational controls meet defined standards and policies
  • Lead Data Protection Operations SMEs, DLP Leads, and Analysts across locations
  • Establish sustainable BAU capability, reducing dependency on MSPs and ad‑hoc support models
  • Drive continuous improvement through control performance metrics and operational insight
  • To drive technical excellence and innovation by leading the design and implementation of robust software solutions, providing mentorship to engineering teams, fostering cross-functional collaboration, and contributing to strategic planning to ensure the delivery of high-quality solutions aligned with business objectives

Requirements:

  • Provision of guidance and expertise to engineering teams to ensure alignment with best practices and foster a culture of technical excellence
  • Contribution to strategic planning by aligning technical decisions with business goals, anticipating future technology trends, and providing insights to optimize product roadmaps
  • Design and implementation of complex, scalable, and maintainable software solutions, considering long-term viability and business objectives
  • Mentoring and coaching to junior and mid-level engineers to foster professional growth and knowledge sharing, elevating the overall skillset and capabilities of the organization
  • Collaboration with business partners, product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions and ensure a cohesive approach to product development
  • Innovation within the organization by identifying and incorporating new technologies, methodologies, and industry practices into the engineering process
  • Manage a business function, providing significant input to function wide strategic initiatives
  • Manage the direction of a large team or sub-function, leading other people managers and embedding a performance culture aligned to the values of the business
  • Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made outside of own function, offering significant input to function wide strategic initiatives
  • Manage, coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub-function
  • Foster and guide compliance, ensure regulations are observed that relevant processes in place to facilitate adherence
  • Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to both monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays, when appropriate
  • Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division / Group to achieve the overall business objectives
  • Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline alongside up-to-date relevant sector / functional knowledge, and insight into external market developments / initiatives
  • Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in often complex/ sensitive situations
  • Exercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions or recommendations within own area
  • Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally
  • Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/ businesses divisions
  • Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division
  • Demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard
  • Demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship
  • Demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive
What we offer:
  • Competitive holiday allowance
  • Life assurance
  • Private medical care
  • Pension contribution

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Job Posted:
February 13, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Hybrid work
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