Principal Cybersecurity Engineer — Scale, Code & Influence

Barclay Simpson; Greater London; On-site; GBP 252,000 - 308,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Visa sponsorship

Job summary

Barclay Simpson is partnering with a global financial services organisation to recruit a Principal Cybersecurity Engineer. This senior IC (Director grade) role blends deep cyber expertise with elite hands-on software engineering, with roughly half time spent coding.

You will address threat detection, anomaly identification, cyber automation and advanced analytics at scale, influencing engineering direction and leading technical workshops.

Qualifications

• Deep cyber expertise and elite hands-on software engineering ability.
• Role requires spending 40-50% of time coding.
• Senior IC (Director grade) with influence over engineering direction.

Responsibilities

• Tackle complex security challenges across threat detection, anomaly identification, cyber automation and analytics.
• Lead technical workshops and raise standards across teams.
• Influence engineering direction as an IC technical leader at scale.

Skills

Threat detection

Anomaly identification

Cyber automation

Advanced analytics

Software engineering

Hands-on coding

Job description

Barclay Simpson is partnering with a global financial services organisation to recruit a Principal Cybersecurity Engineer. This senior IC (Director grade) role blends deep cyber expertise with elite hands-on software engineering, with roughly half time spent coding.

You will address threat detection, anomaly identification, cyber automation and advanced analytics at scale, influencing engineering direction and leading technical workshops.