Senior Security Engineer - CIAM XDP

Barclays; City Of London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A major financial institution in London is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to develop and implement innovative security solutions. This role involves mitigating risks, collaborating with engineering teams, and ensuring optimal security practices to protect sensitive information and systems. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in cloud security, together with strong coding and automation skills. This is a key position in driving digital transformation within the organization.

Qualifications

• Experience in automating security workflows.
• Strong experience with secure key lifecycle management.
• Experience using CLI tools and role/attribute-based access controls.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement solutions to protect sensitive data and systems.
• Execute audits to identify and assess vulnerabilities.
• Collaborate across teams to align cryptographic solutions with business objectives.

Skills

Configuration and integration with HSM and AWS Secrets Manager

Cloud Security expertise

Penetration testing

Hands-on coding in JavaScript, Java, or Python

Experience with GitLab CI/CD pipelines

Tools

AWS CLI

Chef

Job description

Job Description

Purpose of the role

To develop, implement and maintain solutions that support the safeguarding of the banks systems and sensitive information.

Accountabilities

• Provision of subject matter expertise on security systems and engineering patterns.
• Development and implementation of protocols, algorithms, and software applications to protect sensitive data and systems.
• Management and protection of secrets, ensuring that they are securely generated, stored, and used.
• Execution of audits to monitor, identify and assess vulnerabilities in the banks infrastructure/software and support the response to potential security breaches.
• Identification of advancements in to support the innovation and adoption of new cryptographic technologies and techniques.
• Collaboration across the bank, including developers and security teams, to ensure that cryptographic solutions align with business objectives, security policies and regulatory requirements.
• Development/ Implementation and maintenance of Identity and Access Management solutions and systems.

Vice President Expectations

• To 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 escape breaches of policies/procedures..
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department's future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People 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. The four LEAD behaviours are: L - Listen and be authentic, E - Energise and inspire, A - Align across the enterprise, D - Develop others..
• OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• 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 in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In‑depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• 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 in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

Values and Mindset

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.

Join us as a Senior Security Engineer for CIAM at Barclays, where you will bring to life a new digital platform capability, transforming and modernising our digital estate to build a market‑leading digital offering with customer experience at its heart.

This is an exciting and key role, partnering with business aligned engineering and product teams, to ensure a collaborative team culture is at the heart of what we do.

Qualifications

• Experience across configuration and integration with Hardware Security Module (HSM) and AWS Secrets Manager (ASM) tooling, certificate lifecycle management, e.g. rotation, revocation, and in automating security workflows.
• Experience using GitLab CI/CD pipelines, AWS CLI or Chef.
• Strong experience with Cloud Security expertise across the following areas: AWS security controls, policies and automation, CLI tools, role based and attribute‑based access controls, cryptographic protocols and secure key lifecycle management, advanced threat modelling, SOC operations, securing microservices and APIs, DevSecOps best practices, vulnerability scanning, tools, approaches, vulnerability patching and vendor management for security.
• Strong experience in penetration testing and hands‑on coding in at least one of the following: JavaScript, Java, Python.

Desirable Skills

• Experience in hands‑on configuration, deployment and operation of ForgeRock COTS based IAM solutions (PingGateway, PingAM, PingIDM, PingDS) with embedded security gates, HTTP header signing, access token and data at rest encryption, PKI based self‑sovereign identity, or open source.

This role will be based out of our London office.