eCrime Senior Defense Manager

About this role:

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. This multidisciplinary team will require diverse expertise across cyber security threat detection and response, offensive cybercrime security research, complex financial crime investigations (fraud, Anti-Money Laundering), fraud strategies, data science, and operations. The mission is to mitigate fraud losses and operational expenses while protecting customers and clients. Aligned to the primary attack vectors, the team will drive forward the development of cutting-edge analytics and data collection methodologies to improve the detection and prevention of financial crimes with a nexus to fraud.

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.

• 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

• 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