Cyber Risk & Execution Director

Barclays Bank US; Wilmington (DE); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays Bank US seeks a Director-level cybersecurity leader to drive strategic security initiatives across business units and technology teams. The role requires collaboration with executive stakeholders, risk management, and implementation of robust controls.

You will mentor teams and shape security policy to protect critical assets in a dynamic environment. The position emphasizes leadership in complex programs, incident response, and alignment with regulatory requirements, with a focus on

Qualifications

• 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
• Supports the domain lead with ensuring effective and efficient operations of the function

Responsibilities

• 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 banks operations and data and guide the implementation of mitigation strategies and communicate findings to relevant findings to relevant senior stakeholders.
• Collaboration with business units to develop and implement security policies and procedures for the banks operations aligned to the risk management framework.
• Management of the implementation, testing and monitoring of security controls across the banks 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.

Skills

Regulatory project execution

Cybersecurity knowledge

Executive communication

Matrix leadership

Stakeholder management

Risk assessment

Security controls

Strategic thinking

Job description

Barclays Bank US seeks a Director-level cybersecurity leader to drive strategic security initiatives across business units and technology teams. The role requires collaboration with executive stakeholders, risk management, and implementation of robust controls.

You will mentor teams and shape security policy to protect critical assets in a dynamic environment. The position emphasizes leadership in complex programs, incident response, and alignment with regulatory requirements, with a focus on