Vulnerability Management Analyst- CIO- BPL

Job Description

Purpose of the role

To enable ‘secure by design’, supporting the bank’s change programmes, design and implement a secure systems and architecture across a broad set of security domains. These include data security, security risk management, asset security, security architecture and engineering (incl. cloud security), communications and networks, security operations, software development, security assurance testing, identity and access management (IAM).

Accountabilities

• Control function or security guild responsible for technology change oversight and governance.
• Execution of security risk assessments and building threat models during the change & development lifecycle in order to identify vulnerabilities within the banks IT systems, applications and infrastructure, ensuring that compensating security controls and countermeasures are embedded in order to enhance security posture and resilience against cyber threats provision of timely communication of key findings and recommendations to stakeholders.
• Enablement of DevSecOps (and shift left), by providing engagement channels for customers and stakeholders who wish to engage early seeking security advice and input into their business plans and opportunities, or technology change designs, influencing key stakeholders in COO and CSO to create security strategies to enable business and technology evolution.
• Support and guidance to CISO, CIO and Product Team functions providing security reviews for prospective 3rd party technology products and services.
• Transfer of residual risks to the business/customer as required by the bank’s enterprise risk management framework.
• Collaboration with stakeholder and IT teams to support incident response and investigations using their knowledge of the banks technology systems sharing security insights.
• Participation in the development and maintenance of security policies, standards and procedures aligned to the banks risk tolerance, regulatory requirements and industry best practice.

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, 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. They may also 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..
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L - Listen and be authentic, E - Energise and inspire, A - Align across the enterprise, D - Develop others..
• OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will 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. They will 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 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.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship - our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset - to Empower, Challenge and Drive - the operating manual for how we behave.

Join us a Vulnerability Management Analyst with BPL CIO- own the end-to-end vulnerability lifecycle across the entire estate: from scanning orchestration through triage, prioritisation, SLA assignment, remediation tracking, exception management, and reporting. You are the single point of accountability for knowing, at any moment, what vulnerabilities exist in the organisation’s systems, how severe they are in the context of the business, who is responsible for fixing them, and whether they are being fixed within agreed timescales.

This role is critical because vulnerability management sits at the intersection of several key processes in the CISO operating model. The pre-release security sign-off process checks a service’s open vulnerability backlog before approving a production release - if a service has critical vulnerabilities open beyond SLA, it cannot ship new features. The monthly Risk and Compliance Steerco reviews vulnerability trends as a key risk indicator. The Board receives quarterly reporting on mean time to remediate and open vulnerability counts. The PCI DSS compliance programme depends on quarterly internal and external scanning with clean results. All of this runs through you.

The role requires a particular kind of judgement. You will deal with hundreds or thousands of vulnerability findings from multiple scanning tools (SAST, SCA, DAST, infrastructure scanning, CSPM, container scanning, penetration testing). Most of those findings will not be equally important. Your job is to contextualise them: a critical CVSS vulnerability in an internet-facing payment API is fundamentally different from the same CVSS score on an internal development tool with no access to sensitive data. You prioritise based on exploitability, business context, exposure, and regulatory sensitivity - not just generic severity scores.

If you are someone who combines analytical rigour with excellent stakeholder management skills- someone who can triage a thousand findings into a prioritised, actionable list and then work across a dozen engineering teams to ensure the right things get fixed in the right order - this role will suit you.

To be successful as a Vulnerability Management Analyst, you should have experience with;

• Demonstrable experience in vulnerability management, security operations, or a related security discipline where you have been responsible for managing vulnerability findings from identification through to verified remediation
• Experience with vulnerability scanning tools across multiple domains: infrastructure scanning (Tenable, Qualys, Rapid7, or equivalent), application scanning (SAST/DAST/SCA tools such as Semgrep, Snyk, Checkmarx, or Burp Suite), and cloud or container scanning (Wiz, Prisma Cloud, Trivy, or cloud-native equivalents)
• Understanding of CVSS scoring and, critically, the ability to contextualise vulnerabilities beyond raw CVSS scores
• Experience with contextual vulnerability prioritisation approaches: SSVC, EPSS, CISA KEV, or equivalent frameworks that move beyond generic severity to business-contextualised priority
• Data analysis and dashboard creation skills
• Familiarity with PCI DSS Vulnerability management requirements
• Experience managing vulnerability exceptions and risk acceptances in a structured, documented process
• Competence with ticketing and workflow tools (Jira, ServiceNow, or equivalent) for creating, tracking, and reporting on vulnerability remediation at scale

Some other highly valued skills may include;

• Understanding of cloud and container vulnerability scanning: the differences between image scanning, registry scanning, and runtime scanning; the challenges of scanning ephemeral containers and serverless functions; and the implications of shared responsibility models for vulnerability ownership
• Experience coordinating ASV (Approved Scanning Vendor) scans for PCI DSS, including scope definition, false positive management, and the rescan/remediation cycle required to achieve a clean quarterly scan
• Payments or financial services experience, particularly in an environment subject to PCI DSS vulnerability management requirements.
• Understanding of software composition analysis (SCA) and open-source dependency risk. The ability to assess the risk of a vulnerable transitive dependency in the context of how it is actually used in the application, rather than treating every SCA finding as equally urgent
• Experience with exploit intelligence feeds (Recorded Future, Mandiant, CISA KEV) and using exploit availability and active exploitation status to inform prioritisation
• Scripting skills (Python, Bash, or equivalent) for automating data extraction, normalisation, and reporting from scanning tools and APIs.
• Experience operating vulnerability management in an agile or DevOps environment, including sprint-aligned remediation tracking and integration with CI/CD pipeline scan results
• Background in penetration testing, security engineering, or software development - technical depth helps you write better tickets, validate remediations more effectively, and have more credible conversations with engineering teams

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills

The successful candidate will be based in London. Our offices are located at 7 Westferry Circus (new BPL office).

This role is 3 days per week office-based presence expected.

Barclays’ payments acceptance business provides critical infrastructure to the UK economy, processing billions of pounds of payments annually for both small businesses and domestic and international corporate clients.

In April 2025, we announced a long-term partnership with Brookfield Asset Management to grow and transform the payments acceptance business by broadening the range of services offered, enhancing the experience for both existing and prospective clients. Leveraging extensive client relationships and deep experience of UK payments, we will create an environment of continuous innovation - activated by Brookfield’s global private equity expertise in payments, technology, operational transformation and corporate carve-outs - to ensure the business is strategically positioned for long-term growth.

Barclays will invest approximately £400m in the new business, the majority of which will be incurred during the first three years. Performance-linked incentives will drive greater alignment between the partners, underpinning the long-term commitment to the transformation. Barclays and Brookfield will work to create a standalone entity over time, continuing to use the Barclaycard Payments (BPL) brand and acting as the sole payments acceptance services provider to Barclays’ clients for a minimum of ten years.

For more information on our partnership with Brookfield, please visit Barclays.com.