Lead Cybercrime Engineer

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:

• External threat Intelligence to collect external data and create actionable fraud and financial crime intelligence for enterprise control owners.

• Internal threat hunting and analytical research to detect active attacks, emerging trends, shifts in financially motivated criminal behavior.

• Control validation testing to identify and remediate control and data visibility gaps by emulating financially motivated criminal tactics, techniques, procedures (TTPs).

In this role, you will:

• Enhance the organization's ability to detect and prevent 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.

• 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.

• 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.

Required Qualifications, US:

• 5+ years of cyber security engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.

• 5+ years of programming and cyber-enabled financial crime threat mitigation experience.

Desired Qualifications:

• Any combination of log analysis, splunk, pen testing, mobile and/or cloud security, reverse engineering, security architecture.

• Financial crime detection management

• BOT mitigation platforms and edge security controls.

• Data science and advanced analytical threat detection across authentication flows and payment channels (python a plus).

• Incident response lifecycle management.

• Proficient operational security.

• Knowledge of FinCEN's financial crime priorities, including BSA/AML.

Job Expectations and Core Values:

• Ability to travel up to 10%

• Be Humble: You're smart yet always interested in learning from others

• Work Transparently: You always deal in an honest, direct, and transparent way.

• Take Ownership: You embrace responsibility and find joy in having the answers

• Learn More: You regularly self-educate and improve your skill set.

• Show Gratitude: You show appreciation and respect to those you work with

The salary range for this role in NC, AZ and TX is between $111,100 to $197,500 depending on experience and the level of expertise.

The salary range for this role in the San Francisco Bay area is between $133,300 to $237,100 depending on experience and the level of expertise.

Pay Range
 

Reflected is the base pay range offered for this position. Pay may vary depending on factors including but not limited to achievements, skills, experience, or work location. The range listed is just one component of the compensation package offered to candidates.

$111,100.00 - $197,500.00

Posting End Date:

8 Apr 2025

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

We Value Diversity

At Wells Fargo, we believe in diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace; accordingly, we welcome applications for employment from all qualified candidates, regardless of race, color, gender, national origin, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, individuals with disabilities, pregnancy, marital status, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable law.

Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit’s risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.

Candidates applying to job openings posted in US: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.

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