BISO specializes in information security issues relevant to the business such as how to securely implement customer-facing technologies and how to appropriately protect customer information. ​A major role of the BISO is to ensure that the business unit or division understands that information security is a business requirement like any other business requirement and bringing about “business intimacy”. This individual also assists in the implementation and translation of enterprise security requirements, policies and procedures. ​

Key Skills

• Demonstrated success operating as a senior security leader within a large, complex, and highly regulated enterprise, with accountability for business‑aligned cyber risk outcomes.
• Proven ability to influence and challenge Director, Managing Director, and Executive Committee‑level stakeholders, driving decisions and outcomes across a highly matrixed organisation.
• Recognised expert in enterprise‑scale cybersecurity strategy, technology risk management, and secure architecture, with the ability to set direction rather than deliver tactically.
• Strong executive communication skills, with a track record of translating complex cyber and technology risk into clear, decision‑ready insights, recommendations, and trade‑offs for senior leadership.
• Experience defining and overseeing management information (e.g., KRIs, KCIs, incident trends, risk acceptances) that supports effective governance, accountability, and prioritisation at executive level.
• Confident and credible presenter to Director, MD, and ExCo audiences, able to handle challenge, influence outcomes, and drive clear ownership and actions.
• Broad, senior‑level domain knowledge across cloud, IAM, network security, data protection, application security, and incident response, with the judgement to prioritise based on business risk.
• Demonstrated leadership in cyber risk governance and regulatory engagement, including alignment with NYDFS 23 NYCRR 500, UK PRA/FCA, SEC, and other applicable global supervisory frameworks.
• Experienced in risk ownership and oversight, including governance forums, risk acceptances, material remediation programmes, and translation of enterprise cyber GRC requirements into business adoption.

Purpose of the role

To provide a primary liaison service between the business, technology, and security functions. In order to ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information, and support the mitigation of security risk.

Accountabilities

• Collaboration with stakeholders to understand their security requirements in business processes and IT projects, to enhance overall risk management.
• Execution of risk assessments to identify and prioritise potential cybersecurity threats that could impact the banks operations and data and guide the implementation of mitigation strategies and communicate findings to relevant findings to relevant senior stakeholders.
• Collaboration with business units to develop and implement security policies and procedures for the banks operations aligned to the risk management framework.
• Management of the implementation, testing and monitoring of security controls across the banks IT systems to ensure the effectiveness of controls and mitigation of risk.
• Execution of training content and sessions to educate employees, enhance cybersecurity awareness and provide guidance on safe online practices.
• Management of complex cybersecurity incidents by collaborating with IT teams and response experts to effectively resolve cases through analysis, expertise support and project supervision.
• Identification of emerging cybersecurity trends, threats, and new technologies to address potential risks by advocating the adoption of new security solutions.

Director Expectations

• To manage a business function, providing significant input to function wide strategic initiatives. Contribute to and influence policy and procedures for the function and plan, manage and consult on multiple complex and critical strategic projects, which may be business wide..
• They manage the direction of a large team or sub-function, leading other people managers and embedding a performance culture aligned to the values of the business. Or for an individual contributor, they lead organisation wide projects and act as deep technical expert and thought leader, identifying new ways of working and collaborating cross functionally. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made outside of own function, offering significant input to function wide strategic initiatives.
• Manage, coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub-function.
• Escalates breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
• Foster and guide compliance, ensure regulations are observed that relevant processes in place to facilitate adherence.
• Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to both monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays, when appropriate.
• Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division / Group to achieve the overall business objectives.
• Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline alongside up-to-date relevant sector / functional knowledge, and insight into external market developments / initiatives.
• Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in often complex/ sensitive situations.
• Exercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions or recommendations within own area.
• Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally.
• Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/ businesses divisions.
• Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division.

All Senior 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.

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.