Geopolitical Intelligence

Join our Geopolitical Intelligence team at Barclays where, you will play a critical role in helping the organisation navigate an increasingly complex global environment. As a Geopolitical Intelligence professional, you'll lead an international team to deliver strategic insights that enable senior leaders to understand emerging threats to our businesses, anticipate global developments, and help contribute to Barclays global resilience. Working across international teams and engaging with stakeholders at all levels, you'll have the opportunity to influence key priorities while developing expertise in global affairs, intelligence analysis, and strategic risk management within one of the world's leading financial institutions.

To be successful as a Geopolitical Intelligence team leader, you must have the following essential skills:

• Strong experience leading a geopolitical intelligence, foreign policy, or analytical team, directing the production of strategic assessments, managing complex and fast-moving intelligence requirements, and ensuring intelligence outputs support enterprise risk management, operational resilience, and executive decision-making.

• Strong geopolitical intelligence analysis skills, with the ability to assess global political, security, regulatory, and operational developments and determine their impact on the business.

• Experience synthesising complex information from multiple sources into clear, actionable intelligence products, strategic assessments, and recommendations.

• Ability to identify emerging risks and provide timely insights that support decision-making and enable effective business operations across a global organisation.

• Proven communication, stakeholder management and relationship-building skills, with experience developing trusted partnerships across government, industry, vendors, and professional networks to enhance intelligence gathering and collaboration.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Experience working within a regulated financial services environment, with an understanding of how geopolitical and security risks can impact banking operations.

• Experience engaging with stakeholders across multiple regions and time zones within a global organisation.

• A background in intelligence, international relations, security studies, political risk, or a related field, gained through professional experience and/or relevant qualifications.

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 London, Canary Wharf.

Purpose of the role

To identify new threats and gaps in detective control and deliver mitigations and countermeasure in order to protect the bank from potential cyber-attacks and respond to threats. 

Accountabilities

• Develop and execute hypothesis‑driven hunts to identify adversary behaviour, control gaps, or anomalous activity using available telemetry and intelligence.

• Delivery of detective controls and countermeasures within agreed efficacy across a range of enterprise security tooling. Tune and remediate detections falling outside defined thresholds.

• Provide appropriate documentation and contextual information for new detections to Security Operations Centre (SOC) analysts to ensure effective triage and investigation of security alerts and incidents.

• Identify detection and telemetry gaps through Purple Team exercises by collaborating with Red Team activity toassessing whether effective monitoring, prevention and alerting controls exists.

• Maintain situational awareness of the threat landscape, including emerging tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) and active incidents, to inform prioritisation of threats and candidate detections. Keep abreast of developments in new security defensive tooling and capability.

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.