Principal - 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 Principal, Digital Investigations, Analytics & Insider Threat will lead workstreams within Digital Investigations, Analytics & Insider Threat, with insider threat operations as the priority focus, and act as a subject matter expert for the capability. This is a hands-on analytical role that runs current insider threat operations and leads the design of the agentic AI framework that will optimise and automate the prevention, detection and response to insider threat events.

The Digital Investigations, Analytics and Insider Threat team runs GSK’s insider threat program end to end, detecting, investigating and responding to threats from those who already have authorised access, and protecting GSK intellectual property and confidential business information from insider risk. The team also covers digital forensics and investigative analytics in support of insider threat and related casework. Alongside running current operations, the team is building an agentic AI framework to optimise and automate the prevention, detection and response to insider threat events, and every role in the team contributes to its development.

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

• →Lead insider threat workstreams from definition through delivery, acting as subject matter expert for the capability.

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

• →Perform tactical analysis across multiple information streams to detect insider threat indicators, and statistical analysis of insider events to identify patterns, trends and control gaps.

• →Develop and refine strategies to deter, detect and respond to threats against GSK intellectual property and confidential business information.

• →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.

• →Lead the design of the team’s agentic AI framework for insider threat: define the automation and agent architecture for prevention, detection and response, partner with engineering on model and workflow integration, and set the validation criteria for AI-driven outputs.

• →Advise stakeholders across GSK as subject matter expert for the capability.

• →Mentor colleagues and review their technical or analytical work.

• 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 experience with DLP and UEBA platforms.

• Strong practical experience in the relevant cyber security domain.

• Proven experience leading workstreams and delivering high-quality outcomes.

• Ability to act as a subject matter expert and advise stakeholders confidently.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• 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 designing or implementing AI-driven or agentic automation for security operations.
• Typical tools and technologies: DLP, UEBA, EDR, SIEM, forensic imaging and analysis tooling, case management platforms.

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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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