Security Analytics Engineer - Data Pipelines & Automation

Wayve; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Wayve London is seeking a Security Analyst to design scalable data pipelines and analytics that underpin our security programme. You’ll work across Security to build data models, integrations, and automations that transform security data into insights informing decision making.

Your work will enable better operational decision making, reduce manual effort, and strengthen our ability to support customer, auditor, and regulatory commitments.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and operating reliable data platforms or analytics engineering solutions in production environments.
• Experience building production-quality data pipelines and automation using Python, SQL, or similar technologies.
• Experience modeling data for analytical use cases.
• Strong understanding of modern data engineering practices, including data modeling, ETL/ELT, API integrations, data quality, and observability.
• Experience working in cloud-native environments and integrating data from cloud platforms and SaaS sources.
• Experience building integrations and automation using APIs rather than relying solely on out-of-the-box platform capabilities.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate complex technical data into actionable insights.
• Experience designing dashboards and metrics that support operational or business decision making.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across Security, Engineering, and other technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Build our security data platform and data models to enable analytics and reporting.
• Develop automated evidence collection to reduce manual effort across governance and security operations.
• Create KPIs and metrics to monitor control effectiveness and security health.
• Partner with Security and Engineering to translate controls into measurable automated indicators.
• Design dashboards and analytics products for continuous assurance and decision making.
• Enable data-driven decisions by improving data collection, modeling, and consumption across the organisation.

Skills

Data pipelines

Python/SQL

Data modeling

Cloud-native

API integrations

Data quality/observability

Dashboards/metrics

Security analytics

Automation

Job description

Wayve London is seeking a Security Analyst to design scalable data pipelines and analytics that underpin our security programme. You’ll work across Security to build data models, integrations, and automations that transform security data into insights informing decision making.

Your work will enable better operational decision making, reduce manual effort, and strengthen our ability to support customer, auditor, and regulatory commitments.