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Insider Threat Senior Analyst | S3 | CISO

Santander
Milton Keynes, United Kingdomfull_timeVerifiedPosted 23 Apr 2025

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Insider Threat Senior Analyst | S3 | CISO

Country: United Kingdom

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We have a fantastic opportunity to join the bank as an Insider Threat Analyst as part of the Technology Risk & Cybersecurity team.

The purpose of this role is to prevent, detect and respond to security risks originating from within the organisation, extending the DLP controls and adding and mapping likely insider threat actor motivations to identify techniques, control gaps and develop hunting techniques to improve visibility and controls.

Here you’ll collaborate with some senior stakeholders both internally and externally to promote the sharing of intelligence and best practices and will deal with escalations appropriately, ensuring data protection whilst allowing colleagues to perform their roles as crucially and effectively as possible.

The difference you’ll make:

  • Overseeing and providing day to day management of the Insider Threat Team and activities to ensure effectiveness and productivity, ensuring risks are balance against the requirements of our businesses to share data with our approved 3rd parties, regulators and customers
  • Taking ownership of the development of enhanced strategies and incident response playbooks, (identify, plan and design insider threat use cases, promoting high fidelity hunting to regular hunts or automated alerting)
  • Identifying visibility and control gaps and working with relevant teams to close gaps
  • Collating, organising and presenting insider threat trends and areas of interest to the insider threat forum and communicating to senior leads for awareness of significant incidents
  • Coordinating the application of information security laws in computer crime investigation, ensuring optimisation to increase the response speed and outcome reliability
  • Assisting in developing internal control reports provided to external auditors

What you’ll bring:

These are the essential requirements you need to be successful in this role:

  • Experience in Technical Insider Threat leadership (collaboration and problem-solving abilities involving multiple, complex systems)
  • Knowledge and experience of concepts, tools, and practices of dealing with Insider threat, computer crime and fraud
  • Exceptional scripting and automation experience withing a cyber security context with data analysis and security monitoring, SIEM and log analysis capability, pattern recognition
  • Experience of identifying, managing, and producing incident updates, reports, and recommendations to SLT to facilitate decision-making and risk management

It would also be nice for you to have:

  • Use of AI for cybersecurity defence
  • Experience of user behaviour analytics
  • Undergraduate degree in appropriate and relevant qualification, for example Undergraduate degree in appropriate and relevant qualification for example: Certified Insider Threat Program Manager (CITPM), Certified Computer Examiner (CCE), GIAC Certified Forensic Analyst (GCFA), Certified Computer Forensics Examiner or equivalent
  • Understanding of banking systems and operations

What else you need to know:

This is a permanent role. Our preferred location for this role is at Unity Place, Milton Keynes, but we’ll also consider locating the role in Bradford.

We want our people to thrive at work and home and also be able to deliver the best outcomes for our customers and to help each other develop. To support this, we offer site-based contracts with a hybrid working pattern and our expected level of attendance in an office is at least 12 days per month (pro-rata for part-time roles).

If you apply for this role in this location, it’s important you consider your travelling distance, time and cost from your home to the office location.

We’re happy to discuss specific working patterns and arrangement within this hybrid approach during the recruitment process.

If you’re interested in this role but with part time hours or a job-share we would still love to hear from you and discuss these.

Application process

If your application is successful a member of our recruitment team will be in touch. We will arrange a short call with you to learn more about you and what you are looking for from your next career move, as well as answer any questions you have about working in the Santander tech team.

If both sides agree we will send your CV to the hiring manager to review. For this position, the interview process will be :–

1st Stage – a 30-45 min introductory conversation

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