Strategic Cyber Intelligence Expert Lead

Do you want to be at the forefront of protecting a global financial institution against sophisticated cyber threats? As a Strategic Cyber Intelligence Expert Lead at ING, you will play a pivotal role in shaping our understanding of the evolving threat landscape and translating intelligence into decisive action. You will lead complex threat analysis, influence strategic security decisions, and help safeguard ING, our customers, and our reputation.

This is a senior, high‑impact role for an experienced threat intelligence professional who thrives on complexity, collaboration, and making a real difference.

The team
You will join ING’s Global Threat Management (GTM) team, a central capability within the CISO domain that focuses on intelligence‑driven, proactive defence, working closely with Security Operations, Incident Response, Fraud, IT, and senior leadership across the bank.

Our culture is collaborative, analytical, and outcome‑driven. We combine deep technical expertise with strategic thinking to ensure ING stays ahead of emerging cyber threats in a rapidly changing geopolitical and digital landscape.

Roles and responsibilities
As a Strategic Cyber Intelligence Expert Lead, you will operate at the intersection of intelligence, strategy, and execution. You will be responsible for shaping ING’s understanding of the cyber threat landscape and ensuring that insights lead to concrete, risk‑reducing actions across the bank.

In this role, you will:

• Lead end‑to‑end threat analysis and assessment of advanced cyber threats, including cybercrime, ransomware, supply‑chain compromise, hacktivism, and nation‑state activity relevant to the financial sector
• Own high‑impact and complex threat cases, determining when deep investigation is required versus rapid triage, and driving them to clear, defensible outcomes
• Translate intelligence into decision‑ready insights, producing concise executive‑level briefings, risk assessments, and recommendations for senior management and leadership
• Continuously monitor and interpret the external threat landscape, including geopolitical developments, emerging attack techniques, and industry‑specific threats affecting ING and its ecosystem
• Provide strategic guidance during incidents and crises, supporting Incident Response and senior stakeholders with timely threat context, likely adversary behaviour, and risk implications
• Define and improve threat assessment frameworks and methodologies, ensuring consistency, quality, and traceability across intelligence products
• Mentor and coach other threat analysts, setting analytical standards, reviewing assessments, and raising the overall maturity of the team
• Collaborate closely with internal partners such as SOC, Fraud, IT Security, Risk, and business stakeholders to ensure intelligence is actionable and aligned with operational priorities
• Influence preventive and detective security controls by identifying gaps, emerging risks, and opportunities for improvement based on threat intelligence
• Represent ING in trusted intelligence‑sharing communities and internal forums, contributing to collective defence and enhancing ING’s external threat visibility

How to succeed
We hire smart people like you for your potential. Our biggest expectation is that you’ll stay curious. Keep learning. Take on responsibility. In return, we’ll back you to develop into an even more awesome version of yourself.

You will be successful in this role if you can:

• Translate complex cyber threat problems into clear, data‑driven insights and recommendations that support decision‑making.
• Apply structured analytical thinking to threat intelligence, using data, tooling, and frameworks in a practical and outcome‑focused way.
• Work confidently with large, diverse, and imperfect data sets, drawing sound conclusions despite uncertainty.
• Partner effectively with cyber security, detection, and risk teams to ensure intelligence leads to real operational and strategic impact.
• Balance innovation with governance, ensuring quality, traceability, and explainability of intelligence outputs.
• Communicate insights clearly and convincingly, adapting messages for technical experts and senior stakeholders.
• Take ownership of your work, continuously improving tradecraft, methods, and processes.
• Stay curious about the evolving threat landscape and actively invest in continuous learning and professional development.

Background & qualifications

• A degree in Computer Science, Cyber Security, Data Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Relevant certifications in cyber threat intelligence, cyber security, cloud platforms, data analytics, or security frameworks are an advantage.

Rewards and benefits
We want to make sure that it’s possible for you to strike the right balance between your career and your private life. Find out more about our employment conditions.

The benefits of working with us at ING include:

• 25-28 vacation days depending on contract
• Pension scheme
• 13th month salary
• 8% Holiday payment
• Hybrid working
• Personal growth and challenging work with endless possibilities
• An informal working environment with innovative colleagues

About us
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Questions?
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