Executive Lead, Cyber Threat Intelligence & Detection

Synchrony; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 290,000; Full time

Job summary

Synchrony is seeking a Cyber Intelligence Leader to drive threat intelligence, detection engineering, and cyber hunt programs across the enterprise. You will translate external and internal signals into actionable intelligence, proactive hunts, and measurable detection improvements, partnering with SOC and IR teams.

You will lead a mature team, develop detections aligned to MITRE ATT&CK, and oversee the intelligence lifecycle from collection to dissemination, while guiding engineering and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or an equivalent degree.
• 8–12+ years of cybersecurity experience with depth in threat intelligence, threat hunting, detection engineering, and/or incident response.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to brief executives and produce clear technical documentation/runbooks.

Responsibilities

• Define intelligence requirements and collection plans focused on threats relevant to financial services and Synchrony’s environment.
• Produce strategic, operational, and tactical intelligence (executive reporting, actor/campaign tracking, TTP and IOC packages).
• Translate intelligence into detection content, hunt hypotheses, response playbooks, and prioritized mitigations.
• Lead hypothesis-driven hunts mapped to MITRE ATT&CK, focused on high-risk scenarios and validated by available telemetry.
• Coordinate hunts across endpoint, network, cloud, identity, and edge/WAF; document repeatable hunt playbooks.
• Escalate validated suspicious activity to Incident Response and support containment/remediation as needed.

Skills

Threat intelligence

Threat hunting

Detection engineering

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

SIEM/EDR platforms

Job description

Synchrony is seeking a Cyber Intelligence Leader to drive threat intelligence, detection engineering, and cyber hunt programs across the enterprise. You will translate external and internal signals into actionable intelligence, proactive hunts, and measurable detection improvements, partnering with SOC and IR teams.

You will lead a mature team, develop detections aligned to MITRE ATT&CK, and oversee the intelligence lifecycle from collection to dissemination, while guiding engineering and