Job Description:
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Position Summary:
Our Cybercrime Disruption & Response team within Bank of America's Cyber Crime Defense function seeks to continuously strengthen the bank's ability to identify, detect, investigate, and disrupt financial motivated cybercriminal threats. Through research, threat intelligence, data analytics, and collaboration, the team actively engages with Enterprise partners to prevent cybercrime and disrupt threat actors from victimizing our customers and the bank.
Key Responsibilities:
We are seeking a highly skilled Cybercrime Specialist to join our team of defenders actively engaged day-in and day-out in challenging financial motivated threat actors from targeting our customers and utilizing bank infrastructure. To accomplish this, the ideal candidate will be one who continuously researches existing and emerging threat techniques and capabilities being leverage by our adversaries. The role will seek to identify and understand how the cybercriminal ecosystem works, how threat actors operate, and identify ways to exploit the information to the bank's advantage in preventing fraud and disrupting threat actor capabilities to operate. The ideal candidate for this role must be able to solve unstructured problems using incomplete information to defend against these threats, leveraging all the tools and information at their disposal such as threat intelligence, internal data, and collaboration with bank stakeholders across the Enterprise.
Responsibilities:
- Conducts active research into the cybercriminal ecosystem to identify emerging threats and opportunities to prevent and disrupt cybercrime
- Leverages data and information to guide analysis to identify fraud, money laundering, and other suspicious activity
- Actively engages and builds partnerships within the team, Enterprise stakeholders (Line of Business and Global Financial Crimes), and industry to combat cybercrime
- Develops reports and has the ability to brief on topics for both technical and non-technical audiences on observed threats, trends, tools, tactics, and procedures
Required Qualifications:
- 3+ years of experience in cyber fraud, cyber crime analysis, threat intelligence, or cyber threat evaluation
- Effective written and verbal communication including the ability to describe findings, risk, and other threat factors to non-technical and executive audiences
- 3+ years direct experience working with large volumes of structured and unstructured data in various data management systems such as: IBM DB2, SQL Server, Hadoop, Teradata, and MySQL
- Experience consuming, analyzing, and processing Cyber Threat Intelligence data to provide actionable recommendations to stakeholders
- Experience conducting open source and dark/deep web research
- Solid understanding of financial fraud kill chain, social engineering, and methods utilized by threat actors to conduct fraud operations
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
Desired Qualifications:
- Experience working with law enforcement or in legal investigations of cybercrime
- Proficiency with Python, data analytics, visualization libraries, frameworks, and tools such as Pandas, and Jupyterhub
- Demonstrated ability to self-direct, with minimal supervision to achieve assigned goals
Desired Skills:
- Cyber Security
- Data and Trend Analysis
- Innovative Thinking
- Problem Solving
- Threat Analysis
- Analytical Thinking
- Controls Management
- Customer and Client Focus
- Decision Making
- Process Management
- Business Intelligence
- Drives Engagement
- Interpret Relevant Laws, Rules, and Regulations
- Solution Oriented
This job will be open and accepting applications for a minimum of seven days from the date it was posted.
Shift:
1st shift (United States of America)
Hours Per Week:
40
Pay Transparency details
US - CO - Denver - 1144 15th St - Denver Gis (CO9926), US - DC - Washington - 1800 K St NW - 1800 K Street NW (DC1842), US - IL - Chicago - 540 W Madison St - Bank Of America Plaza (IL4540)
Pay and benefits information
Pay range
$95,000.00 - $128,800.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set.
Discretionary incentive eligible
This role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary plan. Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group; and the overall success of the Company.
Benefits
This role is currently benefits eligible. We provide industry-leading benefits, access to paid time off, resources and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve.