Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) Lead – Senior Manager

Overview

Senior security leader translating strategy into effective cyber threat intelligence capabilities. You will steer policy, operating models, and priorities across multiple security disciplines, embedding threat intelligence into security operations to protect the UK’s largest digital bank. You’ll lead an intelligence team, shaping proactive defence and measurable outcomes. This role offers impact at scale within a transforming security organisation and a values-led culture.

Pay / Benefits

• A generous pension contribution up to 15%
• Annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Holiday entitlement of 30 days plus bank holidays
• Wellbeing initiatives
• Parental leave policies

Responsibilities

• Lead a specialised threat intelligence team to identify, analyse and produce actionable intelligence on significant cyber threats.
• Embed threat intelligence into security systems, controls, and cyber defence operations to drive threat-led protection.
• Set direction for the team and manage performance in a complex organisation.
• Drive operational excellence in collection and analysis using CTI and AI tooling.
• Translate complex intelligence into practical recommendations with measurable outcomes.
• Influence senior leaders and communicate with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Foster inclusive, improvement-focused leadership that develops people and challenges established thinking.

Key requirements

• Significant Cyber Threat Intelligence experience with knowledge of adversaries, campaigns and intelligence-led cyber defence.
• Experience setting direction and leading high-performing specialist teams.
• Strong intelligence tradecraft: requirements, structured analysis, uncertainty assessment.
• Credibility to drive embedding of threat intelligence into security operations and controls.

• Strategic influencing and communication to senior stakeholders
• Inclusive leadership and people development
• Clear, concise communication with diverse audiences
• Intelligence tradecraft
• Threat intelligence embedding into security operations
• CTI and AI tooling for collection and analysis

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