Lead Analyst - Digital Investigations, Analytics & Insider Threat

GSK remains committed to achieving bold commercial ambitions for the future. By 2031, we aim to deliver £40 billion in annual sales, leveraging our existing strong performance momentum to significantly increase our positive impact on the health of billions of patients globally. Our Ahead Together strategy is centred on early intervention to prevent and alter the course of disease, thereby protecting people and supporting healthcare systems.
Our diverse portfolio consists of vaccines, specialty medicines, and general medicines.
Through continuous innovation and a dedicated focus on scientific and technical excellence, we strive to develop and launch new, groundbreaking treatments that address critical health challenges.

Job Purpose:

The Lead Analyst, Digital Investigations, Analytics & Insider Threat will deliver the team's work and act as a senior hands-on contributor within Digital Investigations, Analytics & Insider Threat, with insider threat operations as the priority focus. This is a hands-on analytical role that runs current insider threat operations and participates in developing the agentic AI framework that will optimise and automate the prevention, detection and response to insider threat events.

This role will provide you the opportunity to lead key activities to progress your career. These responsibilities include some of the following:

• →Run insider threat investigations and detection operations as a senior hands-on contributor.

• →Conduct digital investigations into suspected policy violation, data theft and insider activity.

• →Perform tactical analysis across multiple information streams to detect insider threat indicators.

• →Perform statistical analysis of insider events to identify patterns, trends and control gaps.

• →Build and tune detection logic across DLP and UEBA platforms, balancing coverage against false positive load.

• →Engineer and maintain the data pipelines that bring HR, access, endpoint, email and cloud telemetry into the analytics layer.

• →Carry out insider threat risk assessments across business units, functions and scenarios.

• →Participate in developing the team’s agentic AI framework: define insider threat use cases and playbooks suitable for automation, test and validate agentic workflows and AI-generated outputs against real investigations, and feed analyst insight back into the models.

• →Deliver assigned work to agreed quality and timelines.

• →Support colleagues with peer review and knowledge sharing.

• Degree in a relevant discipline, or related experience.

• Demonstrated experience in digital investigations, insider threat or corporate investigations.

• Working knowledge of investigative analytics and case handling.

• Practical hands-on experience in the relevant cyber security domain.

• Demonstrated ability to deliver work independently to a high standard.

• Strong attention to detail in analysis and documentation.

• Hands-on experience with Data Loss Prevention and User and Entity Behavior Analytics platforms.

• Experience with digital forensics tooling and evidence handling.

• Experience handling matters with HR and Legal involvement.

• Statistical analysis and data visualization skill.

• Relevant certification such as CERT Insider Threat Program Manager, GCITP, GCFA, GCFE, CISSP, CompTIA Security+.

• Experience in pharmaceutical, life sciences or another highly regulated industry.

• Experience applying automation, scripting or AI-assisted tools to security analytics or investigations.
• Typical tools and technologies: DLP, UEBA, EDR, SIEM, forensic imaging and analysis tooling, case management platforms.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.

People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.

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