Lead Cyber Threat Hunting Analyst - VP

About the Role

As part of the Chief Information Security Office within Cyber Operations, the Threat Hunting team performs proactive hunting activities across Barclays' network estate to detect and mitigate advanced threats. As a Lead Cyber Threat Hunting Analyst - VP, you will lead the proactive search for advanced threats, uncover risks before they become incidents, and help safeguard one of the world’s leading financial institutions. This role combines deep technical expertise with strategic leadership to shape threat hunting capabilities, influence detection strategy, and drive innovation across cyber operations.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate expert, hands-on Cyber Threat Hunting experience by developing intelligence-led, IOC-pivot, hunt-generated, and incident-driven hypotheses to uncover hidden adversary activity across Barclays’ estate and services.
• Apply deep knowledge of adversary tradecraft, attacker TTPs, attack paths, MITRE ATT&CK-aligned behaviors, and enterprise telemetry to assess exposure, identify control gaps, and prioritize hunt activity.
• Act as the VP-level technical lead and subject matter expert (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 collaborating closely with Cyber Threat Intelligence, CSOC, Incident Response, Detection Engineering, Purple Team, and Vulnerability Management to enhance 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.
• Monitor the performance of operational controls, implement and manage security controls, and apply lessons learned to protect the bank from potential cyber-attacks and respond to threats.
• Manage security monitoring systems, including intrusion prevention and detection systems, to alert, detect, and block potential cyber security incidents, ensuring prompt response to restore normal operations with minimized system damage.
• Identify emerging cyber security threats, attack techniques, and technologies to detect and prevent incidents, collaborating with industry networks and conferences to gain expertise.
• Manage and analyze security information and event management systems to collect, correlate, and analyze security logs, events, and alerts or potential threats.
• Triage data loss prevention alerts to identify and prevent sensitive data from being exfiltrated from the bank’s network.
• Manage cyber security incidents, including remediation and driving them to closure.

Qualifications and Skills

• Expert, hands-on Cyber Threat Hunting experience.
• Deep knowledge of adversary tradecraft, attacker TTPs, attack paths, MITRE ATT&CK-aligned behaviors, and enterprise telemetry.
• 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.
• Familiarity with Financial Services cyber risk, regulatory, control, and evidence expectations.
• Relevant professional accreditation such as CISSP, CompTIA Security+, GIAC/SANS, CREST, OffSec, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong analytical, strategic thinking, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to compare and select complex alternatives.
• Ability to build and maintain trusting relationships with internal and external stakeholders, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve key business objectives.

Vice President Expectations

• Contribute to or set strategy, drive requirements, and make recommendations for change.
• Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies and processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies or procedures.
• If managing a team, define jobs and responsibilities, plan for future departmental needs, counsel employees on performance, and contribute to employee pay decisions or changes.
• Lead specialists to influence departmental operations, aligning with strategic and tactical priorities while balancing short- and long-term goals and ensuring budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
• For individual contributors, act as a subject matter expert within your discipline, guiding technical direction, leading collaborative multi-year assignments, and training or coaching less experienced specialists.
• 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 related to your team’s work.
• Collaborate with other areas of the business to stay aligned with business activity and strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought, comparing and selecting complex alternatives, and incorporating extensive research into problem-solving processes.

All colleagues are expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship, as well as the Barclays Mindset of Empower, Challenge, and Drive.

Location

This role is located in Whippany, NJ.

Pay

Base salary range: $180,000 – $230,000. This position is also eligible for an incentive award.

Benefits

Barclays employees are eligible for a suite of competitive and generous benefits, including:

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• Life insurance.
• Paid leave for qualifying circumstances.