Wells Fargo · 3 hours ago
eCrime Senior Defense Manager
COLUMBUS, OH
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$159K/yr - $254K/yr
6+ years expWells 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 eCrime Senior Defense Manager will lead a team responsible for enhancing the organization's ability to detect and prevent fraud, customer scams, and mitigate cyber-enabled financial crimes.
BankingFinancial ServicesFinTechInsurancePayments
No H1B
Responsibilities
Lead external threat Intelligence to collect external data and create actionable fraud and financial crime intelligence for enterprise control owners
Co-lead internal threat hunting and analytical research to detect active attacks, emerging trends, shifts in financially motivated criminal behavior
Support control validation testing to identify and remediate control and data visibility gaps by emulating financially motivated criminal tactics, techniques, procedures (TTPs)
Manage a team responsible for enhancing the organization's ability to detect and prevent fraud, customer scams, and mitigate cyber-enabled financial crimes
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
Mitigate fraud losses and operational expenses by improving mean-time-to-detect (MTD)
Partner with Engineering on deploying production-ready/scalable capabilities
Drive efficiency, automation, and collaboration across relevant horizontal processes
Detect account patterns and features 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 Enterprise cross-functional working groups and interface with senior executives
Lead external engagements and cross-sector working groups and threat cells aligned to Wells Fargo priorities
Manage the fraud Threat Intelligence Platform, threat intelligence and reporting job procedures, drive accountability to execution against priority, business, and strategic intelligence requirements
Qualification
Required
6+ years of Information Security Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
3+ years of management or leadership experience
Preferred
5+ years of managing people, serving as a team lead, and/or leading cross-sector external engagements (eg, working groups, threat cells, coordinated investigations)
Deep understanding of cloud native adversaries, bank crypto custody and transactional risk, fraud AI/Deepfakes, New Account Fraud (NAF), Account Take Over (ATO), customer scams, fraud driven money laundering, money movement technology abuse, theft, sale, use of compromised PII, trusted device, spoofing, obfuscation crimeware, attacks on tokenization technologies, Internal fraud
Advanced operational security when performing external research
Advanced fraud and financial crime threat detection skills leveraging Python and Third-Party tools
Advanced understanding of BOT mitigation platforms and edge security controls. Advanced threat intelligence and incident response lifecycle management
Knowledge of FinCEN's financial crime priorities, including BSA/AML
Firsthand experience handling sensitive information and deep understanding of traffic light protocols
Benefits
Health benefits
401(k) Plan
Paid time off
Disability benefits
Life insurance, critical illness insurance, and accident insurance
Parental leave
Critical caregiving leave
Discounts and savings
Commuter benefits
Tuition reimbursement
Scholarships for dependent children
Adoption reimbursement
Company
Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo & Company is a financial services firm that provides banking, insurance, investments, and mortgage services.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
unknown1978-10-06IPO
Leadership Team
Charlie Scharf
CEO
Fernando Rivas
CEO of Corporate & Investment Banking
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