Senior Cyber Threat Intelligence & Detection Director

Synchrony; Canton (OH); Hybride; USD 170 000 - 290 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Synchrony is seeking a Cyber Intelligence Leader to guide CTI, detection engineering, and cyber hunt programs across the enterprise. You will translate external and internal signals into actionable intelligence, proactive hunts, and improved detections that reduce risk.

The role requires building scalable detections in SIEM/EDR, collaborating with SOC/IR, and leading teams to deliver measurable outcomes. Travel may be required, with flex to work from home or in hubs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or an equivalent degree; minimum 5 years of work
• 8–12+ years of cybersecurity experience with depth in threat intelligence, threat hunting, detection engineering, and/or incident response.
• 3+ years leading teams and/or enterprise programs with measurable outcomes.
• Experience building and operationalizing detections within a SIEM/EDR environment with SOC/IR.
• Strong knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK and applying it to detection coverage.
• Proficiency with security telemetry across endpoint, network, cloud, and edge; investigative mindset.
• Strong written/verbal communication; ability to brief executives and produce technical docs/runbooks.
• Ability and flexibility to travel for business as required

Responsabilités

• 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.
• Manage the intelligence lifecycle (collection → analysis → production → dissemination → feedback).
• Lead hypothesis-driven hunts mapped to MITRE ATT&CK, focused on high-risk scenarios and validated by 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.
• Convert hunt findings into durable improvements: detections, data onboarding/enrichment, and control remediation.
• Lead a detection engineering function responsible for building and maintaining detection content and analytics across the enterprise.
• Develop detection standards and a structured tuning process.
• Ensure detections are threat-informed, measurable, and aligned to JSOC workflow and triage capacity.
• Drive detection validation through purple-team/attack simulations and real incident lessons learned.
• Partner with SOC to improve alert fidelity, reduce noise, and ensure clear escalation criteria and responder guidance.
• Maintain a detection backlog and release cadence; ensure change control and auditability.
• Perform other duties and/or special projects as assigned.

Connaissances

Threat intelligence

Threat hunting

Detection engineering

Incident response

MITRE ATT&CK

Security telemetry

Executive briefing

Travel flexibility

Formation

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent

Outils

SIEM/EDR

Description du poste

Synchrony is seeking a Cyber Intelligence Leader to guide CTI, detection engineering, and cyber hunt programs across the enterprise. You will translate external and internal signals into actionable intelligence, proactive hunts, and improved detections that reduce risk.

The role requires building scalable detections in SIEM/EDR, collaborating with SOC/IR, and leading teams to deliver measurable outcomes. Travel may be required, with flex to work from home or in hubs.