# Enterprise Security Posture Management (ESPM) Lead

**Company**: Barclays
**Location**: Whippany, Jefferson Park
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $175,000 - $225,000
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking an Enterprise Security Posture Management (ESPM) Lead to establish and oversee Barclays' Cloud and SaaS security posture capability.

The purpose of this role is to keep our customers, clients, and colleagues safe by identifying cyber-vulnerabilities across the Bank, using a risk-based approach to prioritise them, and to drive effective remediation activity.

**Accountabilities:**

- Allocation of the correct risk rating and remediation prioritisation to a vulnerability based on industry standards for assessment, available threat intelligence concerning exploitation, the reachability of the host (or asset) and the value of the service(s) running on the impacted host.

- Development of vulnerability management operating model, policies and procedures to ensure consistency in vulnerability identification, remediation and reporting.

- Communication of vulnerabilities to relevant parties including senior stakeholders, vendors, external security partners and affect business units using reports and dashboards and provide recommendations for improvement in vulnerability management practices.

- Collaboration with Threat intelligence and Cyber Operations teams to assess and contextualise exposure to latest threat trends and exploits and set appropriate remediation timescales.

- Definition of requirements and acceptance criteria for the implementation and maintenance of automation tools to streamline vulnerability management processes within operating systems and applications.

- Reporting of remediation status of Security Assurance Specialist team findings against Key Risk Indicators.

**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 escalate breaches of policies/procedures.

- If managing a team, define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department's future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes.

- 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.

**Requirements:**

- Significant experience in guiding cybersecurity, cloud security, cyber risk, and exposure governance functions within large, enterprise-scale organizations.

- Demonstrated understanding of Cloud Security Posture Management, CSPM, SaaS Security Posture Management, SSPM, Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms, CNAPP, Exposure Governance, and related cybersecurity disciplines.

- Deep knowledge of public cloud architectures, cloud-native technologies, modern identity architectures, and SaaS security risks.

- Direct experience with cloud attack paths, privilege escalation risks, identity-related exposures, and adversary techniques targeting cloud environments.

**Preferred Skills:**

- Experience in financial services or another highly regulated, large-scale environment.

- Practical experience implementing or operating enterprise CSPM and SSPM platforms.

- Knowledge of cloud and SaaS security standards, governance frameworks, and regulatory requirements.

- Demonstrated capability, integrating CSPM and SSPM with CNAPP, identity security, vulnerability assessment, threat intelligence, and remediation workflows.

- Experience guiding multidisciplinary teams and influencing senior technology and business stakeholders.

**Benefits:**

- Competitive and generous employee benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and other paid leave for qualifying circumstances.

- Eligible for an incentive award.

**Salary:** $175,000 - $225,000 per year

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## Skills

### Required
- Cloud Security Posture Management
- SaaS Security Posture Management
- Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms
- Exposure Governance
- cybersecurity

### Nice to have
- financial services
- CSPM
- SSPM
- cloud security standards
- governance frameworks
- regulatory requirements

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