Application Security Analyst

Barclays•Hanover Township, NJ

13d•$125,000 - $170,000•Onsite

About The Position

Join us as an Application Security Analyst for Barclays, where you will support the delivery and continuous enhancement of Application Security and DevSecOps capabilities, bringing practical experience in one or more of the following areas: SAST, SCA, DAST, API security and AI-assisted security testing. You will evaluate security findings, validate risk, support remediation, and convert testing data into practical insights for engineering and security stakeholders. You will also help embed security controls across the software development lifecycle and support compliance with cyber governance requirements, policies, and standards.

Requirements

Running one or more of SAST, SCA or DAST scans; triaging and validating findings; investigating false positives; assessing severity and exploitability; and working with developers to track remediation
Testing APIs and understanding common weaknesses in authentication, authorization, input validation, data exposure, and business logic
Applying secure coding knowledge in at least one development ecosystem, such as Java/Spring, .NET, Go, Python or JavaScript/TypeScript, and supporting security testing within CI/CD and cloud-native workflows
Evaluating security data using spreadsheets, query or reporting tools to identify trends, prioritize risk, monitor remediation, and produce accurate operational metrics and dashboards

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of cyber governance, security policies, controls and standards, including supporting conformance assessments, evidence collection, exception management and risk reporting
Understanding of secure SDLC practices, software supply chain security, dependency risk, secrets scanning, SBOMs, vulnerability management and developer-focused remediation
Exposure to AI-assisted security testing and AI application security risks, including prompt injection, insecure output handling, sensitive-data leakage, model or agent vulnerabilities, and validation of AI-generated findings

Responsibilities

Development and execution of assessments, audits, and threat models to identify vulnerabilities within the banks systems, applications and servers using penetration tools and techniques, and communicate key findings and recommendations to stakeholders.
Collaboration with stakeholders and IT teams to identify emerging cyber-attack techniques, tools and technologies and to support the development of penetration testing methodologies.
Development and maintenance of comprehensive documents and reports for senior stakeholders on penetration test findings, and remediation guidance.
Collaboration with stakeholders to understand their security requirements and controls in business processes, application/services, to enhance overall security posture and assurance.
Identification of emerging vulnerabilities, exploit codes and cyber-attacks to develop testing methodologies and assurance activities.
Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.
Evaluate security findings, validate risk, support remediation, and convert testing data into practical insights for engineering and security stakeholders.
Help embed security controls across the software development lifecycle and support compliance with cyber governance requirements, policies, and standards.