Cybercrime Disruption Specialist

Job Description:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We’re devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being.

Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization.

Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference. Join us!

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.

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