Head of Execution & Oversight for USCB IB Markets CISO

Barclays•Hanover Township, NJ

14d

About The Position

The Head of Execution & Oversight for USCB IB Markets CISO provides a primary liaison between business, technology, and security functions to help ensure information confidentiality, integrity, and availability and mitigate security risks. The role supports effective and efficient operation of the function and helps turn strategic direction into completed, complex cybersecurity and regulatory work, including business readiness and handover. The position manages significant functional activity, contributes to strategy, policy, procedures, resourcing, and budgeting, and may direct a large team or sub-function, lead people managers, or act as a deep technical expert on organisation-wide projects. It provides expert advice to senior management and committees, influences decisions across functions, and serves as a key contact and spokesperson for the function and business division. The role also guides compliance, monitors relevant external developments, and coaches less experienced colleagues. The successful candidate is expected to demonstrate Barclays’ LEAD leadership behaviours—Listen and be authentic, Energise and inspire, Align across the enterprise, and Develop others—and its Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship, alongside the Barclays Mindset of Empower, Challenge, and Drive.

Requirements

Demonstrable experience executing and driving complex, regulatory, and sizable work from inception and design through completion, including business readiness and handover.
Understanding of cybersecurity principles, data security, identity and access management, and cryptography.
Ability to understand a high-level strategy and vision, mobilise work, and design and deliver it to completion.
Ability to communicate verbally and in writing at senior executive level, including to Board and C-suite audiences, and deliver challenging messages using data-driven approaches.
Comfort operating in a matrix management structure with multiple senior stakeholders.
Tenacity and resilience, and comfort working in a fluid and evolving environment.
Ability to manage upwards and downwards and work with a wide range of stakeholders across CISO, business units, and technology.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with stakeholders to understand security requirements in business processes and IT projects and enhance risk management.
Conduct risk assessments to identify and prioritise cybersecurity threats affecting bank operations and data; guide mitigation strategies and communicate findings to senior stakeholders.
Work with business units to develop and implement security policies and procedures aligned with the risk management framework.
Manage implementation, testing, and monitoring of security controls across IT systems.
Develop and deliver training to educate employees, increase cybersecurity awareness, and provide guidance on safe online practices.
Manage complex cybersecurity incidents in collaboration with IT teams and response experts, including analysis, expert support, and project supervision.
Identify emerging cybersecurity trends, threats, and technologies and advocate for adoption of suitable security solutions.
Manage a business function and contribute to function-wide strategic initiatives, policies, procedures, and complex strategic projects.
Lead the direction of a large team or sub-function, including other people managers, or lead organisation-wide projects as a technical expert and thought leader.
Train, guide, and coach less experienced specialists; provide information relevant to long-term profits, organisational risks, and strategic decisions.
Advise senior functional management and committees and influence decisions outside the function.
Coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting, and policy creation for a significant sub-function.
Escalate policy and procedure breaches appropriately and foster compliance with applicable regulations and processes.
Monitor and, where appropriate, influence the external environment, regulators, and advocacy groups on behalf of Barclays.
Use industry, sector, and market knowledge and advanced analytical skills to solve complex or sensitive problems and design solutions.
Make significant decisions or recommendations within the area of responsibility and negotiate with and influence senior internal and external stakeholders.
Act as the principal contact for key clients and counterparts in other functions or business divisions, and as a spokesperson for the function and business division.
Support the domain lead in ensuring effective and efficient operation of the function.