CTI Senior Analyst - Santander Digital Services
Country: Spain
**IT STARTS HERE**
This is more than a strategic shift. **It’s a chance for**driven professionals**to grow, learn, and make a real difference**.
Our mission is to contribute to help more **people and businesses prosper**. We embrace a strong risk culture and all our professionals at all levels are expected to take a proactive and responsible approach toward risk management.
**Santander Digital Services**is the team of technology and operations at Santander. We are convinced of the importance of technology that is aligned with the requirements of the business and that out work not only brings value to users, people and communities but also fosters individual creativity. Our team of over 7,000 people in 8 countries (Spain, Portugal, Poland, UK, USA, Mexico, Chile and Brazil) develops and/or implements financial solutions across a broad spectrum of technologies (including Blockchain, Big Data and Angular among others) on all kinds of on-premise and cloud-based platforms.
**THE DIFFERENCE YOU MAKE**
**Santander Digital Services**is looking for a **CTI Senior Analyst**based out of **Boadilla del Monte**.
The CTI Senior Analyst will help drive the evolution of the Cyber Threat Intelligence function to anticipate, contextualise and communicate emerging threats to the organisation. This role aspires to transform intelligence into strategic foresight, ensuring the company remains resilient, informed and prepared in the face of a constantly changing threat landscape.
The CTI function operates as a global, intelligence-driven capability that supports proactive risk management, incident response and strategic decision-making. It provides actionable intelligence to executive leadership, cyber defence, fraud and other key stakeholders across the organisation.
The team integrates multiple intelligence disciplines (strategic, operational and technical) to deliver timely insights, enable prioritization and enhance resilience.
We’re **shaping the way we work**through innovation, cutting-edge technology, collaboration and the freedom to explore new ideas. To succeed in this role, you will be responsible for:
- Creating high quality cyber threat intelligence across strategic, operational and technical levels
- Coordinating intelligence collection and analysis activities across regions to maintain a unified intelligence capability
- Providing expert judgement for complex analytical or attribution assessments
- Liaising with Incident Response, Threat Detection, Risk and senior business stakeholders to ensure intelligence directly informs decision-making and mitigations
- Maintain and expand coverage of high priority threat actos, campaigns and sectors relevant to the organization’s integral footprint
- Represent the CTI function in cross-functional or external intelligence-sharing initiatives, ensuring alignment with corporate policies and legal frameworks
- Assist in the strengthening of the team’s analytical capabilities and development of the team.
**WHAT YOU’LL BRING**
Our people are our greatest strength. Every individual contributes unique perspectives that make us stronger as a team and as an organization. We’re **enabling teams to go beyond**by valuing who they are and empowering what they bring.
The following requirements represent the knowledge, skills, and abilities essential for success in this role. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
**Professional Experience**
- 8-10 years of professional experience in Cyber Threat Intelligence, Cybersecurity Operations or related intelligence roles within large enterprises (required)
- Experience managing and integrating multiple intelligence sources, including structured (required)
- Prior involvement in intelligence-sharing communities or public-private partnerships (preferred)
- Experience contributing to or leading automation or process-improvement initiatives within CTI operations (preferred)
**Education**
- Degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Intelligence Studies or a related technical or analytical discipline (required)
- Master’s degree or equivalent professional experience in Cybersecurity, International Security or Data Analytics (preferred)
- Recognised industry certifications such as GCTI, GCIH, CCTIA or CISSP (preferred)
**Languages**
- English (required)
- Spanish (required)
**Hard Skills**
- Ability to track, profile and assess adversary groups, campaigns and TTPs using structured analytic techniques (required)
- Experience creating finished intelligence across strategic, operational and tactical levels (required)
- Hands-on experience with intelligence platforms and tooling (required)
- Understanding of network defence technologies (EDR, SIEM, firewalls, proxies) (required)
- Capability to interpret malware reports, C2 infrastructure and IOCs at a contextual level (preferred)
- Scripting and aut