Description
We are seeking a Lead Application Security Analyst to join our team at Barclays. As a Lead Application Security Analyst, you will play a critical role in safeguarding the bank's technology landscape. You will lead evaluation, delivery and continuous enhancement of Application Security and DevSecOps capabilities.
The purpose of this role is to identify potential vulnerabilities within the bank's IT systems using penetration testing tools and techniques to ensure security of computer systems, applications, servers, and networks.
Key responsibilities:
- Development and execution of assessments, audits, and threat models to identify vulnerabilities within the bank's 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.
As a Vice President, you will be expected to contribute to setting strategy, driving requirements and making recommendations for change. You will plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
Requirements:
- Experience with operating and evaluating results from one or more SAST, SCA or DAST tools, including tuning policies, validating findings, reducing false positives, assessing exploitability and guiding remediation.
- Assessing APIs using automated and manual techniques, with knowledge of authentication, authorization, input validation and common API vulnerabilities.
- Applying secure coding and remediation practices in at least one development ecosystem, such as Java/Spring, .NET, Go, Python or JavaScript/TypeScript.
- Integrating application security testing into CI/CD pipelines, developer workflows and cloud-native environments, including containers, Kubernetes and infrastructure as code.
- Using data-analysis techniques and reporting tools to identify trends, prioritize risk, monitor remediation, and produce clear KRI/KCI dashboards and leadership insights.
Highly valued skills:
- Knowledge of cyber governance, security policies, control frameworks and standards, with the ability to interpret requirements, assess conformance, manage exceptions and support audit or regulatory evidence.
- Understanding of software supply chain security, dependency risk, secrets scanning, SBOMs and vulnerability management across the secure SDLC.
- Exposure to AI-assisted security testing and AI application security, including prompt injection, insecure output handling, model and agent risks, data leakage, human-in-the-loop validation and responsible use of AI-generated findings.
- Ability to communicate multi-layered technical findings to senior stakeholders, influence remediation priorities and coach analysts and engineering teams.
Benefits:
- Medical, dental and vision coverage.
- 401(k).
- Life insurance.
- Other paid leave for qualifying circumstances.
- Eligible for an incentive award.