Insider Threat Intelligence Analyst

Join Barclays as an Insider Threat Intelligence Analyst and be at the forefront of protecting our organisation from risks that come from within. This is a high-impact role where curiosity meets strategy—perfect for someone who thrives on uncovering hidden patterns, turning complex data into meaningful intelligence, and influencing critical security decisions. You’ll play a key part in strengthening our defence by identifying insider risks early, delivering actionable insights, and collaborating across a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

• Strong intelligence analysis skills, with the ability to assess complex data, identify risk, and produce defensible intelligence judgements, combined with proficiency in modern technologies, data platforms, and AI-enabled tools to develop clear and concise insights for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively within intelligence, security, or fusion-centre environments.
• Experience operating within government, law enforcement, corporate intelligence, or espionage-focused organisations.

• Knowledge of insider threat programmes, fusion-centre models, and intelligence-led risk management frameworks.
• Experience conducting red team, purple team, or adversary-simulation exercises focused on insider threat and corporate espionage scenarios.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills, including collaboration with intelligence vendors, industry partners, and information-sharing networks to enhance situational awareness and validate intelligence assessments.

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

This role is based of Knutsford/ Canary Wharf/ Northampton.

• To identify, assess and articulate insider threats to Barclays by producing timely, high‑quality intelligence derived from the analysis of external intelligence, behavioural signals, and technical indicators.
• To support the Insider Threat Fusion Centre (ITFC) and wider stakeholders with early warning, contextual insight, and forward‑looking assessments across malicious, negligent, compromised, and collusive insider threat scenarios.
• To strengthen the Bank’s preventative and proactive posture by enabling earlier intervention, pushing intelligence left on insider threat pathways and reducing reliance on reactive detection.
• To integrate intelligence into investigations, control effectiveness testing, resilience planning, and strategic decision‑making, ensuring insider threat risk is consistently understood, prioritised, and managed.

• Produce actionable intelligence assessments on insider threats, trends, and emerging patterns, translating complex data into clear, decision‑ready insight for operational and strategic stakeholders.
• Analyse and contextualise external intelligence (e.g. nation‑state activity, fraud trends, coercion risk, criminal facilitation) alongside internal indicators to understand the threat posed to the organisation and its operating environment.
• Develop and maintain insider threat pathways, indicators, and warning frameworks to support detection, prevention, and control mapping.
• Support the ITFC with structured intelligence analysis in response to investigations and emerging risks, while also driving proactive, hypothesis‑led intelligence collection aligned to priority threat areas.
• Engage with external partners including intelligence vendors, industry forums, and trusted networks to enhance situational awareness, validate assessments, and strengthen the quality of insider threat intelligence.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional internal partners including HR, Legal, Compliance, Operational Risk, Technology, and Data Protection to enable effective risk identification, escalation, and mitigation.
• Contribute to the development of innovative intelligence products, methodologies, and analytic standards within the CSO Threat Intelligence function.

• To advise and influence…