Application Security Specialist

Barclays•Jefferson, CO

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Join us as an Application Security Specialist for Barclays, where you will play a critical role in safeguarding the bank’s technology landscape. You will lead the hands-on delivery and continuous enhancement of the firm’s DevSecOps and Application Security programs. Also, embed security controls across the software development lifecycle, integrating guidance directly into developer workflows. This position requires close partnership with engineering and security stakeholders to scale modern, developer-centric security capabilities that enable secure innovation.

Requirements

Extensive development experience in at least one ecosystem (e.g. Java (Spring), .NET, GoLang)
Experience in cloud-native development security, container orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes), and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform and Helm
Advanced knowledge of API and mobile security, including common vulnerabilities and mitigation techniques
Subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction.
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.
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 the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship
Demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive

Nice To Haves

Deep understanding of modern secure SDLC processes, DevOps toolchains, CI/CD automation, and code-signing practices
Knowledge of SAST, DAST, SCA, and software supply chain security
Understanding of AI security within application security, including model vulnerabilities, malware risks, and prompt injection techniques

Responsibilities

Identify potential vulnerabilities within the banks IT systems using penetration testing tools and techniques to ensure security of computer systems, applications, servers, and networks.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Lead the hands-on delivery and continuous enhancement of the firm’s DevSecOps and Application Security programs.
Embed security controls across the software development lifecycle, integrating guidance directly into developer workflows.
Partner with engineering and security stakeholders to scale modern, developer-centric security capabilities that enable secure innovation.