Lead Cyber Threat Hunting Analyst - VP

Embark on a transformative journey as a Lead Cyber Threat Hunting Analyst - VP. At Barclays, our vision is clear –to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. As part of the Chief Information Security Office, working within Cyber Operations, the Threat Hunting team is responsible for performing proactive hunting activities across Barclays network estate to detect & mitigate advanced threats. As a Cyber Threat Hunting Lead Vice President at Barclays, you’ll lead the proactive search for advanced threats, uncovering risks before they become incidents and helping safeguard one of the world’s leading financial institutions. Combining deep technical expertise with strategic leadership, you’ll shape threat hunting capabilities, influence detection strategy, and drive innovation across cyber operations. This is a unique opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies, tackle some of the industry’s most complex security challenges, and see the direct impact of your work on Barclays’ resilience and future success.

To be successful as a Lead Cyber Threat Hunting Analyst - VP, you should:

• Demonstrate expert, hands-on Cyber Threat Hunting experience, developing intelligence-led, IOC-pivot, hunt-generated and incident-driven hypotheses to uncover hidden adversary activity across Barclays’ estate and services

• Bring deep knowledge of adversary tradecraft, attacker TTPs, attack paths, MITRE ATT&CK-aligned behaviors and enterprise telemetry, using that knowledge to assess exposure, identify control gaps and prioritize hunt activity

• Act as the VP-level technical lead and SME for Cyber Threat Hunting, driving the technical and operational capability of the Hunt function while remaining a hands-on individual contributor

• Translate hunt findings into actionable defensive improvements by working closely with Cyber Threat Intelligence, CSOC, Incident Response, Detection Engineering, Purple Team and Vulnerability Management, ensuring hunt outcomes improve detection, response and control effectiveness

• Communicate complex hunt findings clearly to senior technical and non-technical stakeholders, producing concise evidence-based reporting, recommendations and follow-up actions for wider action within Barclays

Other highly valued skills include:

• Practical experience with enterprise-scale hunting and analytics toolsets, including SIEM/search platforms, endpoint, identity, cloud, network, threat intelligence and SOAR-enabled workflows

• Exposure to Purple Team and Detection Engineering collaboration, including validating telemetry, confirming detections, identifying candidate hunts and shaping detection suggestions without owning those functions

• Familiarity with Financial Services cyber risk, regulatory, control and evidence expectations, supported by relevant professional accreditation such as CISSP, CompTIA Security+, GIAC/SANS, CREST, OffSec or equivalent practical experience

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in this role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is located in our Whippany, NJ office.

Minimum Salary: $180,000

Maximum Salary: $230,000

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above includes only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

Barclays employees are eligible for a suite of competitive and generous employee benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and other paid leave for qualifying circumstances.

This position is eligible for an incentive award.

Purpose of the role

To monitor the performance of operational controls, implement and manage security controls and consider lessons learnt in order to protect the bank from potential cyber-attacks and respond to threats. 

Accountabilities

• Management of security monitoring systems, including intrusive prevention and detection systems, to alert, detect and block potential cyber security incidents, and provide a prompt response to restore normal operations with minimised system damage.
• Identification of emerging cyber security threats, attack techniques and technologies to detect/prevent incidents, and collaborate with networks and conferences to gain industry knowledge and expertise.
• Management and analysis of security information and event management systems to collect, correlate and analyse security logs, events and alerts/potential threats.
• Triage of data loss prevention alerts to identify and prevent sensitive data for being exfiltrated from the banks network.
• Management of cyber security incidents including remediation & driving to closure.

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.