Lead Cybersecurity Data Analyst

Your New Role

To become even more risk and data-driven, the Warner Bros. Discovery Security Metrics & Insights team is looking to expand use of Key Performance Indicators and Key Risk Indicators for use with security leaders, senior leaders at WBD, and with the Board of Directors. These metrics will be used to measure and monitor trends in cyber risk, and present insights, recommendations, and opportunities to reduce cyber risk across the company. This role will be responsible for data wrangling, analysis, and application of machine learning and artificial intelligence to security data sets.  

What's in it for you

• Contract of employment

• Hybrid work (3 days from the office, 2 days from home)

• Benefits package: private medical care, life and accident insurance, MyBenefit cafeteria platform, sports card, social fund, retirement pension plan, Employee Referral Program

• Free access to the Max platform

• Work-life balance initiatives: well-being platform, yoga, massages, educational webinars, Employee Support Program, film screenings organized by employees in the office cinema

• Training and development: training platform, co-financing of English lessons, Employee Resource Groups, Engagement Club - the opportunity to develop your interests in thematic employee groups, online meetings with experts

• CSR activities: volunteering, ecological and social initiatives

• Access to parking spaces

Your Role Accountabilities

KRI SUPPORT & DEVELOPMENT:

• Consolidating WBD data into a single set of meaningful metrics  

• Maturing existing risk-based metrics, including Key Risk Indicators  

• Continuing to expand the key risk indicator dashboard to produce business unit views (HBO Max, CNN, etc.) for use by the Business Information Security Officers  

• Further automating Key Risk Indicator dashboard to allow for more time spent on insights (versus data wrangling)  

• Evaluating quality of data sets, identifying efforts that can be made to improve quality, and executing on those efforts  

• Identifying opportunities to collect additional and better security data, and executing on those efforts  

• Developing innovative and interactive security data visualizations that can be understand be leadership and non-security audiences  

• Identifying opportunities to leverage machine learning or artificial intelligence on the massive data sets we have at our disposal   

• Identifying opportunities to quantify risk in terms of dollar ranges  

• Leveraging security datasets for ML/AI opportunities  

• Developing additional expertise in WBD security data and tools  

CYBERSECURITY ANALTICS & REPORTING

• Wrangling data to produce key risk indicators by business unit so that WBD can have organizational views of cyber risk and better identify opportunities to reduce risk  

• Automating data pulls using tools such as Jupyter Labs, Python, R, SQL, and others in order for the team to spend more time on insights.

• Evaluating quality of data sets, identifying efforts that can be made to improve quality, and executing those efforts to improve our accuracy and precision around cyber risk

• Produce various data visualizations through the use of Tableau or Power BI to tell the story of security to leadership and non-security audiences

• Identifying opportunities to leverage machine learning or artificial intelligence data sets to make better recommendations on how risk can be reduced or to predict areas where risk may increase

Qualifications & Experience

• Minimum 7 years of experience with analytics - descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive 

• Minimum 7 years experience with Python, Jupyter Labs, SQL, PowerBI, APIs, and backend setup  

• Critical thinking skills with an inquisitive and questioning nature ability to think big picture; a "systems thinker”

• Build and nurture relationships, gain consensus for ideas and plans, and have excellent communication skills to present solutions that will facilitate data-driven solutions

• Ability to work successfully in a cross-matrix IT and business team environment

• Ability to formulate detailed technical documentation and remediation requirements  

Not Required but preferred experience

• Experience with Splunk, ServiceNow or Vulnerability Management Tools

• Experience with a risk-based data centric approach using risk frameworks such as NIST-CSF 

• Self-motivated, with experience operating with remote, global teams

• Strong interpersonal and influencing skills of people at different levels and with different backgrounds and experiences

• Good understanding of secure software development best practices, network, and other technical security controls

• Strong collaboration and experience working in matrixed environments

• Achievement of one or more industry-relevant security certifications such as CISSP, CISM or CRISC  

Additional Information 

On June 9, 2025, Warner Bros. Discovery announced plans to separate into two publicly traded companies, Warner Bros. and Discovery Global, with an expected completion in mid-2026. For more details, including leadership appointments and information on individual brands, please visit our newsroom here. 

Although you will be hired by Warner Bros. Discovery, upon the planned separation in 2026, your employment likely will transition to Warner Bros. or transition to Discovery Global. During this period of transformation, you’ll have an exciting opportunity to lay the foundation at one of the world’s premier entertainment brands. 

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