Head of Execution & Oversight USCB & IB Markets CISO

About the role

The purpose of this role is to provide a primary liaison service between the business, technology, and security functions to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information and support the mitigation of security risk.

Accountabilities

• Collaboration with stakeholders to understand their security requirements in business processes and IT projects, to enhance overall risk management.
• Execution of risk assessments to identify and prioritise potential cybersecurity threats that could impact the bank's operations and data and guide the implementation of mitigation strategies and communicate findings to relevant senior stakeholders.
• Collaboration with business units to develop and implement security policies and procedures for the bank's operations aligned to the risk management framework.
• Management of the implementation, testing, and monitoring of security controls across the bank's IT systems to ensure the effectiveness of controls and mitigation of risk.
• Execution of training content and sessions to educate employees, enhance cybersecurity awareness, and provide guidance on safe online practices.
• Management of complex cybersecurity incidents by collaborating with IT teams and response experts to effectively resolve cases through analysis, expertise support, and project supervision.
• Identification of emerging cybersecurity trends, threats, and new technologies to address potential risks by advocating the adoption of new security solutions.

Requirements

• Demonstrable experience of executing and driving a complex, regulatory, and sizable book of work from inception, design, and completion including business readiness and handover.
• Understanding of cyber security principles, data security, identity and access management, and cryptography.
• Ability to understand a high-level strategy and vision, mobilise, design, and deliver against this to completion.
• Ability to communicate at senior executive level (Board, C-suite), including verbally and written materials, delivering challenging messages using data-driven approaches.
• Comfortable operating in a matrix management structure with multiple senior stakeholders.
• Tenacious and resilient in how they operate, is comfortable in a fluid and evolving landscape.
• Ability to work with and manage upwards and downwards to a wide scope of stakeholders across CISO, business units, and wider technology.

Director Expectations

As a Director, you will be expected to manage a business function, providing significant input to function-wide strategic initiatives, contribute to and influence policy and procedures for the function, and plan, manage, and consult on multiple complex and critical strategic projects.

You will also be expected to lead and manage a large team or sub-function, leading other people managers and embedding a performance culture aligned to the values of the business, or lead organisation-wide projects and act as a deep technical expert and thought leader.

Additionally, you will be expected to provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees, manage and coordinate resourcing, budgeting, and policy creation for a significant sub-function, and escalate breaches of policies/procedure appropriately.

Leadership Behaviours and Values

All Senior Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard, including the four LEAD behaviours: Listen and be authentic, Energise and inspire, Align across the enterprise, and Develop others.

You will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship, and the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge, and Drive.