Location(s): UK, Europe & Africa : UK : London 

BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,500 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 10 countries to collect, connect and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businesses can unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments.

The Principal Security Analyst acts as a subject matter expert, performs complex analysis, provides QA, and performs a supervisory role within the CTI team, deputising for the Lead when required. They take on responsibility for executing and overseeing key CTI tasks, managing and supporting team members in their daily work, mentoring analysts, and ensuring the quality of intelligence products. They assist in prioritising deployment of the analytical capability and collaborate effectively across range of stakeholders. 

Responsibilities 

It is the responsibility of the Prinicpal Security Analyst to: 

• Provide quality assurance for analytical products and processes. 

• Manage and support the team through mentorship and guidance. 

• Assist in prioritising the deployment of analytical capability by contributing to task management. 

• Initiate intelligence collection, particularly for complex requirements and perform complex threat intelligence analysis. 

• Collaborate with HMG and partner agencies on intelligence sharing and joint analysis. 

• Identify innovation within intelligence and work with Lead on initiatives that matures the function and both the wider CSOC and Threat Operations service offerings. 

• Carry out the core CTI responsibilities, often focusing on more complex tasks. 

• Assume a greater proportion of the specialist responsibilities. 

• Contribute to aspects of sharing/reporting, vulnerability advisory creation, landscape assessments, use-case development and procedure and process creation. 

• Support the lead in the execution of the CTI strategy, TI integration, intel escalation, metrics creation, and continuous improvement. 

• Provide representation during daily and weekly operational meetings; contribute to KPI production and statistics reporting. 

• Deputise for the CTI Lead in their absence, assuming key responsibilities as guided. 

• Identify and prioritise threats and vulnerabilities. 

• Contribute in intelligence and response exercises (e.g. red teaming, threat hunting, table tops and analytical exercises) through its design, and oversight. 

• Act as managerial/technical point for high-complexity incidents or analysis. 

• Perform all duties expected of the CTI Analyst role at a higher level. 

Provide mentoring to CTI Analysts and Junior Analysts. Contribute to appraisals and performance reporting as per line management responsibilities. 

Life at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence 

We are embracing Hybrid Working. This means you and your colleagues may be working in different locations, such as from home, another BAE Systems office or client site, some or all of the time, and work might be going on at different times of the day.

By embracing technology, we can interact, collaborate and create together, even when we’re working remotely from one another. Hybrid Working allows for increased flexibility in when and where we work, helping us to balance our work and personal life more effectively, and enhance well-being.

Diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of BAE Systems Digital Intelligence. We are proud to have an organisational culture where employees with varying perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds – the best and brightest minds – can work together to achieve excellence and realise individual and organisational potential.

Division overview: Financial Services

At BAE Systems Digital Intelligence, we pride ourselves in being a leader in the cyber defence industry, and the financial sector is one of the biggest targets for cyber-attacks. Our Financial Services business unit is responsible for all of our clients in the financial sector and handle all areas of these relationships. The Financial Services Division helps banks, insurers and other major financial institutions to combat fraud, unauthorised trading and money laundering, and meets their regulatory compliance obligations.

As a member of the Financial Services business unit, you will be responsible for providing critical services to clients in the financial sector and ensure that we remain a leading name in cyber security. We all have a role to play in defending our clients, and this is yours.