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Wells Fargo · 8 hours ago

Senior Lead eCrime Defense Research Engineer

141278-NC-CIC Customer Information Ctr

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$159K/yr - $254K/yr

7+ years exp

Wells Fargo is building an exciting new cross-functional team to proactively detect and rapidly respond to emerging eCrime threats and cyber-enabled financial crimes. The Senior Lead eCrime Defense Research Engineer will lead efforts in threat intelligence, collaborate on internal research, and enhance the organization's capabilities to mitigate fraud and financial crimes.

BankingFinancial ServicesFinTechInsurancePayments

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Lead external threat Intelligence to collect external data and create actionable fraud and financial crime intelligence for enterprise control owners. Including working with Financial Industry partners (NCFTA and ISACs), cross-sector private industry critical infrastructure partners, and law enforcement/public partners

Partner on internal threat hunting and analytical research with eCrime data scientist to detect active attacks, emerging trends, shifts in financially motivated criminal behavior

Partner on control validation test to identify and remediate control and data visibility gaps by emulating financially motivated criminal tactics, techniques, procedures (TTPs)

Enhance the organization's ability to detect and prevent fraud, scams, and mitigate exposure to financial crimes. -- including threats from cloud native adversaries targeting commercial clients, private bank clients, supply chain exploits, APIs, and customer identity/authentication flows

Perform non-attrib research off the Wells Fargo network to develop new signals and rapid prototypes to mitigate fraud losses and cybercrime exposure

Assess criminal enablement tools/services, develop new fingerprint and detection capabilities, conduct advanced threat simulations, and perform control test

Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues, and managers to resolve issues and achieve goals

Mitigate fraud losses and operational expenses by improving mean-time-to-detect (MTD)

Partner with Engineering on deploying production-ready/scalable capabilities

Detect emerging threats and active attacks linked to Crime-as-a-Service enablers and cybercriminal tactic, techniques, and procedures (TTPs)

Develop a deep understanding of internal systems that could be exploited by financially motivated criminals

Lead threat actor attribution initiatives to improve prevention controls and enrich Financial Crime Investigators working complex cases

Interface with multiple lines of businesses and protect customers from emerging and active threats

Qualification

Cyber Security ResearchThreat IntelligenceIncident ResponseData AnalysisOperational SecurityCollaborationProblem SolvingCommunication

Required

7+ years of Cyber Security Research experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

5+ years in protecting Enterprise systems including supply chains/3rd parties