VP – CCO Tech & Cloud risk

At Barclays, we don’t just adapt to the future – we create it. Embark on a transformative journey as a VP – CCO Tech & Cloud risk, where you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of Technology and Security Chief Control Office (CCO) Controls Management team which focuses on governance and execution support for technology, cloud, and AI risk. You will proactively identify, assess, and remediate risks, ensuring compliance and responding to audit and regulatory requests. You will evaluate security risks of new cloud and AI deployments, provide advisory services, and engage with stakeholders across various functions. Your key responsibilities include advising on cloud control risks, collaborating with cross-functional teams, staying updated on security threats, and promoting best practices and policies. The role also involves developing metrics and scorecards to aid decision-making and ensuring robust security policies are in place. Additionally, you will need to will assess technology and information security risks of new application deployments to public cloud and AI use cases deployment at the bank and provide advisory and review/sign-off for new deployments and ad hoc requests. Your role will also entail regulatory and compliance review and responding to audit and regulatory related internal/external requests.

To be successful as a VP – CCO Tech & Cloud risk, you should have experience with:

• Extensive experience in cloud risk and working experience with AI risk.
• Practical experience with commercial cloud offerings like AWS and Azure in Cloud risk management, solution architecture, and security management.
• Strong understanding of AWS services related to compute, network, storage, content delivery, administration and security, deployment and management, and automation technologies.
• Good understanding of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure deployment through code, and build and test automation technologies like Chef, Puppet, Docker, Jenkins.
• Strong understanding of industry standards and best practices related to Cloud, including CIS Critical Security Controls, CSA Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM), NIST Cybersecurity Framework, and Cloud computing standards roadmap.
• Bachelor’s/master’s degree with relevant experience.

Some of Highly Valued Skills may include:

• Industry certifications like CCSP, CCSK.
• Awareness of AI risk industry frameworks/regulations and assessment methodologies.
• Knowledge of cyber threats and vulnerabilities for AI use cases.

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 location of the role is Noida or Gurgaon, IN.

Purpose of the role

To design, develop and consult on the bank’s internal controls framework and supporting policies and standards across the organisation, ensuring it is robust, effective, and aligned to the bank’s overall strategy and risk appetite.  

Accountabilities

• Identification and analysis of emerging and evolving risks across functions to understand their potential impact, and likelihood.
• Communication of the purpose, structure, and importance of the control framework to all relevant stakeholders, including senior management and audit.
• Support to the development and implementation of the bank's internal controls framework and principles tailored to the banks specific needs and risk profile including design, monitoring, and reporting initiatives  .
• Monitoring and maintenance of the control's frameworks, to ensure compliance and adjust and update as internal and external requirements change.
• Embedment of the control framework across the bank through cross collaboration, training sessions and awareness campaigns which fosters a culture of knowledge sharing and improvement in risk management and the importance of internal control effectiveness.

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.