Job Description
Barclays is a leading global financial services organization providing banking, investment, and technology solutions across multiple countries. The HR Data Security Lead will be responsible for designing, governing, and assuring security frameworks and controls that enable the secure, trusted, and appropriate use of colleague data across the organization. Employee Size: 100000+ employees.
The role is responsible for leading HR data security, access governance, data sharing, privacy-by-design controls, and security assurance across HR systems, analytics, reporting, and AI-enabled use cases. The selected candidate will establish security guardrails ensuring colleague data is accessed using role-based, purpose-bound, time-bound, and least-privilege principles while maintaining appropriate oversight, governance, evidence, and remediation processes.
Key responsibilities include owning and governing the security approach for HR data across HR systems, reporting platforms, analytics, and AI initiatives, partnering with Data Privacy, Legal, HR Technology, Information Security, Identity and Access Management, Risk and Control, Change teams, and business process owners to ensure lawful and secure use of colleague data. The role also includes defining role-based access principles, reviewing and approving data access and sharing requests, overseeing security role design across Workday and reporting platforms, supporting HR data security during change initiatives, ensuring secure use of HR data in non-production environments, conducting monitoring and assurance activities including access reviews, privileged access checks, sensitive report monitoring, exception tracking, remediation oversight, supporting investigation and response to HR data security incidents, and assessing new technologies including Artificial Intelligence use cases to ensure secure handling of sensitive employee information.
The position also involves collaborating with business, technology, and security teams to understand security requirements, performing cybersecurity risk assessments, implementing security controls, developing security policies and procedures, managing cybersecurity incidents, delivering employee security awareness programs, identifying emerging cybersecurity threats, and supporting the organization's overall governance and risk management framework. Candidates should possess strong expertise in HR data security, access governance, data protection, information classification, privacy legislation, HR processes, risk management, stakeholder management, security controls, and governance frameworks. Knowledge of Workday security models, Microsoft enterprise security technologies, and AI security controls will be an added advantage.
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