Total 5 job vacancies by NatWest Group

Join us as a Perimeter Security Specialist

• Take on a new challenge and use your specialist knowledge to support the wider bank in building and operating secure services that protect both colleagues and customers
• You’ll act as a subject matter expert in a security related field, making sure that the security implications of the backlog are understood in the right way, building security early into design
• You’ll be joining an exciting and fast-paced area of the bank, where you can expect great exposure both for you and your work

What you'll do

As a Perimeter Security Specialist, you’ll work at a domain level to understand and ensure robust security is continuously considered and incorporated at every stage, programme increment and feature team delivery throughout the development lifecycle and through to support.

You’ll collaborate with feature teams and participate in story refinement, sprint planning and retrospective sessions, establishing a culture of innovation and strategic thinking that makes sure that the bank has knowledge of, and opportunities to exploit, the latest developments in your area of specialism.

You’ll also be:

• Supporting with the identification of risks, while contributing to risk management strategies to achieve business objectives and customer outcomes
• Understanding and implementing Agile methodologies and actively contributing to finding opportunities to build security early into design
• Making sure that decisions made are based on robust data, return on investment and value measures that demonstrate thoughtful and intelligent cost management
• Actively contributing to your centre of excellence (CoE) specialism by cross sharing learnings and best practice with CoE and community of practice colleagues
• Building and leveraging relationships with colleagues across the bank and third parties to ensure decisions made are commercially focused and create long term value for the organisation

The skills you'll need

To be successful in this role, you’ll need knowledge of one or more security subject areas and experience of setting risk appetites. You’ll also demonstrate experience of, or a willingness to learn risk management frameworks to assess and provide advice for the changes introduced to the infrastructure components, while playing a key role in a tool based rule change management process.

Additionally, you’ll need:

• An understanding of Agile methodologies with the ability to write technical issues in business terms
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills with understanding of security assessment processes
• Good knowledge of cybersecurity frameworks, such as ISO, NIST/SoGP
• Prior experience as a Perimeter Security Specialist and relevant networking or security trainings or certifications such as CCNA Security, CompTia Sec+, CCNP, and CCSP is a must
• A good understanding of a network security focused on public cloud computing including LAN/WAN/VPNs networking and firewalling experience

Join us as a Security Consultant

• In this key role, you’ll be working with the domain lead to define the product backlog and analyse a broad range of security information
• We’ll look to you to provide advice and guidance on the best course of action required to manage or solve any identified security risks
• It’s an opportunity to use your expertise to represent security in business led forums to achieve effective security governance

What you'll do

As a Security Consultant, you’ll analyse business requirements, technical solutions or processes to identify security related risks, and provide guidance on how they can be managed effectively through either technical or non-technical solutions. You’ll also be assisting the wider bank in the rapid delivery of their desired business and customer outcomes, making sure that bank system health and security are maintained and improved where possible.

Additionally, you’ll be:

• Using a broad knowledge in security specialisms, together with an appreciation of franchise and function strategies and objectives, to support the wider bank
• Participating in a culture of continuous improvement and collaborating with others, focusing on automation, virtualisation and scalability by incorporating security as early as possible
• Using knowledge and experience of industry standards and best practice to influence senior stakeholders
• Working with colleagues and across service teams to create a collaborative resource model, flexing resources and building agility across teams to foster a culture of collaboration
• Delivering high quality services that address key areas of risk to meet the bank’s requirements

The skills you'll need

We’re looking for someone with a wide range of knowledge in a number of security related specialisms, coupled with effective stakeholder management and interpersonal skills.

You’ll also need:

• The ability to think strategically and demonstrate an appreciation of strategic alignment between security and the business domain
• A range of knowledge of industry standards and best practice, including ISF Standard of Good Practice (SOGP)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• An understanding of change management processes and Agile methodologies
• The ability to assess and address security challenges in a dynamic environment
• Knowledge and experience of cloud service providers, including AWS, GCP, and Azure
• The ability to explain complex security concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Knowledge and experience of vulnerability management tooling and processes

Join us as our Head of Group Public Policy Research & Political Risk

• This is a varied and engaging role in which you’ll be responsible for supporting your function and wider business with policy development, political horizon scanning, political engagement and the identification of political risk
• You’ll be working with senior stakeholders and leading a highly skilled team, continually driving the identification and mitigation of potential risks
• Your work will have an enormous impact as you’ll develop and implement our centre of expertise regarding political policy, research and risk

What you'll do

As our Head of Group Public Policy Research & Political Risk, you’ll be responsible for driving the development of policy interventions. In doing so, you’ll develop our strategic approach for the use of lobbying governments and politicians across the UK. You’ll be expected to stay abreast of the key political policy areas of the day in order to develop our policy positions across a number of areas.

In addition to this, you’ll be responsible for:

• The horizon scanning of key issues covering policy and political risk
• Identifying any political risks we might face before developing mitigating actions
• Developing research materials to support regional board communications, influencer engagement and the Levelling Up agenda
• Developing simple, accessible materials on our strategy and purpose for external use

The skills you'll need

We’re looking for someone with the ability to deliver clear, well researched materials for external parties covering our strategy. As such, you’ll be able to deal with highly sensitive and confidential materials.

Along with an understanding of our wider strategy, you’ll have the ability to research complex political policies and how they affect us and our customers.

You will also need a contacts book, the desire to build that contacts book and the willingness to engage with politicians and officials on an ongoing and out of hours basis.

We’re also looking for:

• The ability to build strong and widespread relationships across the bank
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to articulate innovative solutions to potential risks
• Effective leadership skills to manage a highly skilled, experienced and well connected team
• The ability to lobby government on areas of political policy and risk that affect us

Join us as an Infrastructure Engineer, Security

• We’ll look to you to develop and implement core infrastructure technologies, products and services against customer and non-functional requirements
• In order to achieve a first-class customer experience, you’ll make sure the infrastructure technology is engineered to comply with security, availability and resilience, performance and capacity
• You’ll work with colleagues across the bank, allowing you to expand your network and gain exposure for you and your work

What you'll do

As an Infrastructure Engineer, you’ll be contributing to and managing the selection, creation and maintenance of infrastructure technologies required to meet the needs of our customers, ensuring alignment to the Chief Technology Office (CTO) strategic targets and architecture outcomes. Throughout the course of your work, we’ll look to you to help produce high availability and low-cost systems.

You’ll also be:

• Producing and providing ongoing management of infrastructure roadmaps, detailing lifecycles of the technology from new products and versions, through to end of support and retirement
• Providing operational support to other infrastructure teams in the event of major incidents or complex technical issues
• Building and leveraging relationships with colleagues across bank to make sure decisions made are commercially focused and create long term value for the bank
• Fulfilling business continuity requirements by participating in disaster recovery exercises
• Making sure that decisions are made based on robust data, return on investment and value measures that demonstrate thoughtful and intelligent cost management

The skills you'll need

To succeed in this role, you’ll need the ability to understand how your area of expertise supports customers, from the core development of technology to risk based decisions. On top of this, you’ll need a clear understanding of infrastructure layers or stack, and a broad knowledge across multiple platforms such as server, operating system, virtualisation, database, middleware or network.

Along with experience of contributing to roadmaps and strategies and working closely with third parties on assurance of their output and managing their performance, you’ll need the ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to your peers and management level colleagues, with good collaboration and stakeholder management skills.

You’ll also demonstrate:

• A good understanding of IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and cloud technologies
• A good understanding of Agile methodologies paired with working knowledge of the Agile toolsets and experience of working in an Agile team
• The ability to relate everyday work to the strategic vision of the feature team, platform and domain
• A clear understanding of the DevOps mind-set, collaboration, automation and tooling
• A background of working in a complex, multi-disciplined matrix team
• Experience in information security domain

Join us as a Quality Manager, Security

• We’ll look to you to provide direction and leadership on all quality matters across the platform or domain including adoption and compliance with the bank's standards and policies
• This is an opportunity to act as a key contributor in making sure that work packages transition seamlessly from development into live environments
• Hone your knowledge of quality best practices and collaboration and stakeholder management skills

What you'll do

In this key role, you’ll be making sure that only well designed and built work packages get through quality testing. You’ll aim to get it right first time for our customers through innovative service and solutions, using automation as an accelerator and working closely with stakeholders in an Agile and collaborative environment. We’ll also look to you to produce comprehensive and robust quality strategies and detailed quality test plans, enabling the continual flow of work packages across the domain, platform value stream or programme.

Additionally, you’ll be:

• Taking accountability for all aspects of quality across both run and change and business as usual activity within the assigned platform or domain
• Overseeing the output quality from all testing phases owned and making sure it meets the requirements of each quality test strategy
• Making sure defects are detected and prioritised, based on impact, and resolved at the earliest possible moment and before the last responsible moment
• Undertaking end-to-end test management including planning, risk, issue, dependency management, lessons learnt and governance
• Reviewing all key collateral relating to delivery and making sure it is of sufficient quality and with no gaps or duplication

The skills you'll need

We’re looking for someone with strong knowledge and understanding of quality standards, quality best practices, and our risk and controls framework. You’ll also need high levels of knowledge and demonstrable application of modern testing and quality practices and techniques used with Agile methodologies.

Additionally, we’ll be looking for:

• Practical experience of quality strategy and planning, testing design and execution
• Experience in functional and non-functional testing such as system, system integration, user, load, volume, stress, security, accessibility, compatibility, penetration and back-out
• The ability to relate everyday work to the strategic vision of the feature, platform, domain and enterprise teams, with a strong focus on business outcomes
• The ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to peers and management
• Good collaboration and stakeholder management skills
• Experience in information security domain
• Familiarity with No Code or low code testing, Test Driven Development, Behaviour Driven Development and DevSecOps