Cyber Product Owner - Protect

A career without limits

As the nation’s flag carrier, we take great pride in connecting Britain with the world and the world with Britain.

It’s something we’ve been doing for over 100 years, ever since we launched the world’s first international scheduled air service between London and Paris.

This originality has been in our blood since day one. It’s the spirit we share with the people that fly with us, our partners, and our colleagues.

So, whether you are a reassuring voice on the end of a phone, a smile at the door, under a wing keeping the turbines spinning or landing us gently in far-flung places, a job at British Airways is yours to make.

We know great things can happen when you’re inspired to think big and bring your ambition to work every day, which is why, at British Airways the sky is never the limit.

The role: Cyber Product Owner – Protect

The Cyber Product Owner for Protect will have responsibility for ensuring our systems are well protected from cyber-attack. Working closely with BA colleagues, the BA Cyber Team and GroupTech you’ll create product visions, strategies and roadmaps, you’ll have a strong domain understanding and define requirements and KPI’s for the products you own.

What you’ll do:

• Provide technical cyber leadership across all of BA’s defensive cyber security products. This includes m365, CrowdStrike, Defender, Snyk,ForcePoint.
• Produce product visions, strategies and roadmaps aligned with ourGroup and in support of new and emerging use cases from the BA
  business.
• Evaluating, implementing, and communicating new protective tools and features to improve our security posture whilst supporting, consulting, and measuring the performance of new and existing tools.
• Create and maintain reference architectures, patterns and guidance for BA’s security products. Develop hardening standards and configuration baselines for security tools.
• Lead cyber reviews to ensure that our security tools work together to provide integrated layers of defence and a consistent level of protection globally.
• Support the BA Cyber Delivery Assurance Lead’s, acting as a subject matter expert on all things related to protective tooling.
• Engage proactively with BA colleagues to understand where our tools cause friction or frustration. Work to reduce these, placing user experience front and centre.
• Work with our security vendors to maximise utilisation of our tooling and solutions to achieve the best possible value for money.
• Effectively communicate, reason and influence stakeholders across BA and GroupTech to drive adoption of security tools, and proactive consumption of standards and patterns.

What you’ll bring to British Airways:

• Highly analytical, demonstrating a methodical and structured approach with high attention to detail.
• Excellent communicator, taking complex technical issues and making them approachable to all stakeholders
• Ability to review and security reference architectures, patterns and guidance.
• Ability to recognise priorities and guide others towards the accomplishment of strategic business goals and objectives.
• Keen to learn new technologies.

Your experience:

• Strong technical security skills related to endpoint, cloud and infrastructure security products, in particular Microsoft M365 E5 Suite.
• Experience with cloud, endpoint, and infrastructure securityproducts. (Desirable – m365, Lacework, Snyk, Defender, ForcePoint).
• Recognised cyber security certifications or qualifications desirable.
• Offensive security experience, penetration testing etc. desirable.
• Proven track record of providing successful support in the field and of enabling and facilitating a culture of continual improvement

What we offer:

We believe that all the people who work with us should feel valued for the part they play. It’s one of the reasons our rewards go far beyond a competitive salary.

From the day you join us, you’ll get access to brilliant staff travel benefits including unlimited basic and premium standby tickets on British Airways flights. You’ll also receive up to 30 discounted ‘Hotline’ airfares per year for yourself, friends, and family.

At British Airways you’ll have the chance to take on new challenges and move forward in a way that feels right for you. We encourage all those who work for us to consider opportunities right across our business to help you develop and progress.

We never stand still, and we don’t expect our people to either.

Inclusion & Diversity

At British Airways we all have a part to play in creating an inclusive place to work. Diverse representation among our people is really important to us and we recognise that all our colleagues are uniquely different and bring their own originality, creativity and identity to work.

Inclusion and diversity is a key driver of innovation and we’re committed to creating a culture where everyone feels that they can be themselves. We’re looking for people from all backgrounds and cultures to join us and be a part of our journey to become a Better BA as we continue to connect Britain with the world and the world with Britain.

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