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About the Role

Join Barclays as a Data Security Lead and play a pivotal role in strengthening the organisation's data protection and security posture across critical business platforms. You will partner with technology, security, and business teams to design and implement robust data protection controls, ensuring sensitive information is managed securely, regulatory obligations are met, and innovation can be delivered with confidence in a highly regulated environment.

Responsibilities

Provide a primary liaison service between business, technology, and security functions to ensure confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information, and support mitigation of security risk.
Collaborate with stakeholders to understand security requirements in business processes and IT projects, enhancing overall risk management.
Execute risk assessments to identify and prioritize potential cybersecurity threats, guide mitigation strategies, and communicate findings to senior stakeholders.
Collaborate with business units to develop and implement security policies and procedures aligned to the risk management framework.
Manage the implementation, testing, and monitoring of security controls across IT systems to ensure effectiveness and mitigate risk.
Execute training content and sessions to educate employees, enhance cybersecurity awareness, and provide guidance on safe online practices.
Manage complex cybersecurity incidents by collaborating with IT teams and response experts to effectively resolve cases.
Identify emerging cybersecurity trends, threats, and new technologies to address potential risks by advocating for new security solutions.
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 escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross-functional areas of impact and alignment.
Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls.
Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving business goals.
Collaborate with other areas of work for business-aligned support to stay updated on business activity and strategies.
Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought, comparing and selecting complex alternatives.
Define problems and develop innovative solutions through in-depth analysis with interpretative thinking.
Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem-solving processes.
Seek out, build, and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

Requirements

Extensive data protection, privacy, and regulatory expertise – Deep expertise in GDPR, DPIAs, privacy risk assessments, and data protection within regulated environments.
Data security architecture and control design – Strong experience designing and implementing Data Protection by Design controls, including data classification, encryption, access management, retention, masking, and secure data sharing.
Technical expertise in tokenisation and encryption technologies (e.g., Protegrity, Thales Cipher Trust, TDE, field/column/application/file-level encryption, and encryption in transit), with the ability to balance risk, performance, and regulatory requirements.
Senior stakeholder leadership and risk-based decision-making: Ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive risk-based decisions on privacy and security matters.
Cloud, data platform, and AI awareness: Understanding of data security and privacy considerations across cloud, data platforms, analytics, and AI environments.
Professional certifications or recognised frameworks: Relevant certifications or knowledge of frameworks such as CIPP/E, CIPM, CIPT, ISO 27001, NIST, or COBIT.
Risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, and digital and technology skills.
Job-specific technical skills.

Skills

Data protection
Privacy
Regulatory expertise
GDPR
DPIAs
Privacy risk assessments
Data classification
Encryption
Access management
Data retention
Data masking
Secure data sharing
Tokenisation
Protegrity
Thales Cipher Trust
TDE
Field-level encryption
Column-level encryption
Application-level encryption
File-level encryption
Encryption in transit
Stakeholder leadership
Risk-based decision-making
Cloud security
Data platform security
AI security
CIPP/E
CIPM
CIPT
ISO 27001
NIST
COBIT
Risk management
Controls
Change management
Transformation
Business acumen
Strategic thinking
Digital technology

Location

Canary Wharf Office

Experience Level

Vice President
Senior stakeholder leadership

About the Company

Barclays is a global financial institution.

Equal Opportunity

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.