Vulnerability Hunting Lead

Join us as a Vulnerability Hunting Lead , to support our cybersecurity function by identifying, assessing, and helping to address vulnerabilities across our enterprise environment. This role sits within our threat‑informed defence approach and contributes to improving our long‑term vulnerability discovery work. You will collaborate with teams across Technology, Engineering, and Cybersecurity to help reduce risk across the organisation.

To be successful as a Vulnerability Hunting Lead ​, you should have experience with:

• Strategic Cybersecurity Leadership -Ability to define, influence, and execute a long‑term vulnerability discovery and remediation strategy across the enterprise. This includes shaping threat‑driven programs, securing funding, and aligning with CISO/CIO priorities.
• Advanced Offensive Security Expertise - Deep understanding of vulnerability research, exploit development, red‑team tradecraft, adversary TTPs, and emerging threat landscapes. This includes the ability to assess and steer technical teams performing advanced hunting.
• Enterprise‑Scale Risk Management & Governance -Skill in assessing business impact, prioritising vulnerabilities at scale, and embedding risk‑based decision making into engineering, infrastructure, and product teams. Strong stakeholder management across CTO, engineering, and risk functions is essential.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• AI‑Driven Detection & Automation - Experience leveraging machine learning/AI, automation frameworks, or data‑driven analytics to accelerate vulnerability discovery and reduce manual effort.
• Cross‑Functional Influence & Executive Communication - Ability to translate complex technical findings into clear, actionable insights for senior executives, boards, and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Industry Collaboration & Thought Leadership - Engagement with security communities (e.g., FIRST, CSA, OWASP), participation in disclosure programs, and maintaining external intelligence networks that enhance the organisation’s visibility and maturity.

You may be assessed on key skills that support success in this role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, and digital and technology skills, in addition to job‑specific technical capabilities.

This role will be based in Glasgow

Purpose of the role

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. Element owner of the Vulnerability Management Standard including Issues Management and Regulatory alignment.
• 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, 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.