AI Security Services Lead in Knutsford

hackajob is collaborating with Barclays to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. Join Barclays as an AI Security Services Lead – Barclays is seeking an AI Security Services Lead to own and operate the central AI security services required as AI adoption continues to grow across the organisation. In this role, you will ensure that security controls for AI platforms and models are thoughtfully designed, continuously maintained, and fully embedded into engineering and operational processes. You will work closely with enabling teams across the CISO pillars, leveraging existing services and enhancing them with AI‑specific security capabilities and patterns. Your work will be critical in delivering consistent, scalable AI security outcomes, ensuring emerging AI risks are proactively addressed and not managed inconsistently across the enterprise.

Qualifications

• Security Engineering & Operations Expertise – Deep experience in designing, operating, and scaling enterprise security controls, with strong operational ownership and seamless integration into SOC, IAM, cloud, and CI/CD environments.
• AI/ML Systems & Threat Understanding – Strong understanding of AI/ML platforms (including data pipelines, model training, inference, and model repositories) and AI‑specific threats such as model poisoning, data leakage, adversarial inputs, and misuse of generative outputs.
• Enterprise Integration & Cross‑Functional Leadership – Proven ability to embed AI security controls into enterprise platforms and workflows through close collaboration with CTO, platform engineering, and wider CISO teams.

Some Other Highly Valued Skills May Include

• Specialist AI Security Subject Matter Depth – Hands‑on experience with AI/ML security techniques, tools, or frameworks, such as adversarial ML, model scanning, AI guardrails, MITRE ATLAS, and secure AI lifecycle approaches.
• AI Governance, Standards & Regulatory Knowledge – Familiarity with AI security and governance frameworks including NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42.001, and emerging regulations such as the EU AI Act, with experience translating these into practical technical controls.
• Strategic Planning, Budgeting & Vendor Management – Experience shaping multi‑year security capability roadmaps, building investment cases, and managing specialist vendors delivering AI security tooling and services.

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. This role is based in Knutsford and Canary Wharf.

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, enhancing overall risk management.
• Execution of risk assessments to identify and prioritise potential cybersecurity threats that could impact the bank's operations and data, guiding the implementation of mitigation strategies and communicating findings to senior stakeholders.
• Collaboration with business units to develop and implement security policies and procedures for the bank's operations aligned to the risk management framework.
• Management of the implementation, testing and monitoring of security controls across the bank's 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.

Vice President Expectations

• Contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change; plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies and processes; deliver continuous improvements and elevate breaches of policies and procedures.
• If managing a team, define jobs and responsibilities, plan for the department’s future needs and operations, counsel employees on performance and contribute to employee pay decisions and changes; lead specialists to influence the operations of a department while balancing short‑ and long‑term goals and ensuring budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
• Show clear leadership behaviours – L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
• Guide technical direction as a subject‑matter expert, lead multi‑year assignments, 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 to support the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls related to your team’s work.
• Understand the organisation’s functions to contribute to achieving the business goals.
• Collaborate with other areas of work to support business‑aligned activities and strategies.
• Create solutions based on advanced analytical thought, comparing complex alternatives; provide in‑depth analysis and interpretative thinking to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Apply outcomes of extensive research in problem‑solving processes.
• Build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders to achieve business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills.

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.