Wells Fargo

Senior Defense Manager

Wells Fargo

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: CharlotteNorth CarolinaOhioUnited States

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Salary

💰 $159,000 - $254,000 per year

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About the role

  • 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.

Requirements

  • 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
  • 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
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Hard Skills & Tools
Information Security Engineeringfraud detectionthreat intelligencePythonoperational securityBOT mitigationincident responsedata visibilitycontrol validation testingthreat simulations
Soft Skills
leadershipteam managementcollaborationcommunicationanalytical researchproblem-solvingcross-functional teamworkefficiency improvementaccountabilitystrategic thinking