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Application security engineering lead

Glasgow (Glasgow City)
Barclays
Engineering
Posted: 10 July
Offer description

Join us at Barclays as an Application Security Engineering Lead, where you'll design and deliver tools that help developers build secure software from the start. Your work will enhance security across the bank, protecting critical systems and sensitive information.


To be successful as an Application Security Engineering Lead, you should have experience with:

* Advanced knowledge of application security testing methodologies (SAST, DAST, IAST, SCA).
* Experience with cloud security architectures, DevSecOps integration, and pipelines.
* Advanced knowledge of security principles and guardrails. Coding proficiency in at least one major language.


Some other highly valued skills may include:

* Proven ability to build and scale application security programs from the ground up.
* Cross-functional collaboration skills with development, operations, and product teams.
* Vendor management and security tool evaluation expertise.


You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in the role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology skills, as well as job-specific technical skills.


This role is based in Knutsford/Glasgow.

Purpose of the role

To develop, implement, and maintain solutions that support safeguarding the bank's systems and sensitive information.

Accountabilities

* Provide subject matter expertise on security systems and engineering patterns.
* Develop and implement protocols, algorithms, and software applications to protect sensitive data and systems.
* Manage and protect secrets, ensuring they are securely generated, stored, and used.
* Conduct audits to monitor, identify, and assess vulnerabilities in the bank's infrastructure/software and support responses to security breaches.
* Identify advancements to support the adoption of new cryptographic technologies and techniques.
* Collaborate across the bank, including developers and security teams, to ensure cryptographic solutions align with business objectives, security policies, and regulatory requirements.
* Develop, implement, and maintain Identity and Access Management solutions and systems.

Vice President Expectations

* Contribute to or set strategy, drive requirements, and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage policies and processes; deliver continuous improvements; escalate breaches.
* If managing a team, define roles and responsibilities, plan for future needs, counsel on performance, and contribute to pay decisions. Lead specialists to influence department operations, balancing short and long-term goals, while ensuring budgets and schedules meet requirements.
* Demonstrate leadership behaviors: Listen and be authentic, Energise and inspire, Align across the enterprise, Develop others.
* For individual contributors: serve as a subject matter expert, guide technical direction, lead assignments, mentor less experienced colleagues, and inform strategic decisions.
* Advise stakeholders, including leadership, on functional and cross-functional impacts and alignments.
* Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, supporting governance and control objectives.
* Demonstrate leadership and accountability in managing risks and strengthening controls.
* Understand organizational functions to contribute to business goals.
* Collaborate with support areas to stay aligned with business activities and strategies.
* Create solutions using sophisticated analysis, compare complex alternatives, and develop innovative solutions.
* Incorporate research outcomes into problem-solving processes.
* Build and maintain trusting relationships with internal and external stakeholders, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve objectives.

All colleagues are expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship, as well as the Barclays Mindset of Empower, Challenge, and Drive.

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