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About the Role

The Cyber Threat Intelligence Lead is responsible for leading and maturing the organisation’s threat intelligence capability, ensuring intelligence drives security strategy, investment decisions, and operational priorities. This role acts as the senior subject matter expert for cyber threats, delivering strategic, operational, and tactical intelligence products, providing leadership across the Cyber Fusion Centre, and influencing senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Lead the end-to-end threat intelligence lifecycle and maintain intelligence requirements aligned to business objectives.
Develop and maintain strategic, operational and tactical threat intelligence products.
Provide regular threat briefings and intelligence updates to senior leadership and executive stakeholders.
Contribute directly to the development and evolution of the Cyber Security Strategy.
Act as the principal cyber threat intelligence advisor to the Head of Cyber Fusion and Chief Resilience and Security Officer.
Develop threat-led action plans and influence remediation priorities across Technology and business functions.
Embed a threat-led approach across vulnerability management, detection engineering, threat hunting, security architecture and incident response activities.
Assess emerging threats, adversary activity, geopolitical developments and industry trends relevant to Hiscox.
Develop and maintain intelligence sources, including OSINT, commercial intelligence feeds, industry partnerships and government engagement.
Support major incident response activities through threat analysis, attribution assessments and remediation guidance.
Build relationships with external intelligence sharing communities, government agencies and industry bodies.
Present complex intelligence findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Drive understanding of the threat landscape across Technology Leadership and key business stakeholders.
Coach and develop junior threat intelligence analysts and support future team growth.
Establish threat intelligence methodologies, standards and quality controls.

Requirements

Experienced in cyber threat intelligence, cyber security operations, government intelligence, military intelligence or law enforcement environments.
Strong understanding of the intelligence lifecycle and threat intelligence frameworks.
Experience producing strategic intelligence assessments and executive-level briefings.
Experience influencing senior stakeholders and driving security improvements through intelligence-led recommendations.
Excellent analytical, research and critical thinking skills.
Strong knowledge of threat actor tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs).
Experience mentoring or developing junior analysts.
Excellent communication, presentation and stakeholder management skills.
Experience within financial services or other regulated industries is desirable.
Industry recognised certifications such as GCTI, CCTIM, GCFA, GREM, GPEN or equivalent are desirable.
Threat-intelligence-led detection and IOC operationalisation.

Skills

Cyber Threat Intelligence
Cyber Security Operations
Intelligence Lifecycle
Threat Intelligence Frameworks
Strategic Intelligence Assessments
Executive-Level Briefings
Analytical Skills
Research Skills
Critical Thinking
Threat Actor Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs)
Mentoring
Communication Skills
Presentation Skills
Stakeholder Management
OSINT
Commercial Intelligence Feeds
Industry Partnerships
Government Engagement
Threat Analysis
Attribution Assessments
Remediation Guidance
Intelligence Sharing Communities
Vulnerability Management
Detection Engineering
Threat Hunting
Security Architecture
Incident Response

Location

York (UK)
Lisbon (Portugal)

Work Type

Permanent
Hybrid

Experience Level

Senior

Benefits

Hybrid working to encourage a healthy work life balance

About the Company

Hiscox is a diversified international insurance group with a powerful brand, strong balance sheet and plenty of room to grow.
Listed on the London Stock Exchange and headquartered in Bermuda (with the bulk of group leadership sitting in London), Hiscox has over 3,000 staff across 14 countries and 34 offices.
Structured by geography and product, Hiscox’s long-held business strategy has helped them grow from a niche Lloyd’s underwriter to an international insurance group with a powerful and trusted consumer brand.
Hiscox is comprised of the following business units: London Market, Reinsurance & Insurance Linked Securities (ILS), Hiscox Retail USA, Hiscox Retail UK, Hiscox Retail Europe.
For the financial year 2024, GWP grew to $4,766.9m with net premiums earned of $3,675.6m, returning a record pre-tax profit of £685.4M.
At Hiscox, our corporate values are considered crucial to our success. They are: Courage; dare to take a risk, Human; clear, fair, and inclusive, Ownership; passionate, commercial, and accountable, Integrity; do the right thing, however hard, Connected; together, build something better.

Equal Opportunity

At Hiscox we care about our people. We hire the best people for the job, and we are committed to diversity and creating a truly inclusive culture, which we believe drives success.