Senior Security Engineer - Insider Threat

Citizens Financial; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Citizens Financial seeks a Senior Security Engineer to advance its Insider Threat Program using security analytics, behavioral indicators, and data-driven controls to detect and respond to insider risk. The role collaborates across Cybersecurity, Fraud, HR, Legal, Risk, and Technology to integrate telemetry and improve detection.

Success requires strong investigative and analytical skills and the ability to translate complex patterns into actionable security insights for stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Security, Computer Science, or a related field with 1+ years of relevant experience, or equivalent professional experience.
• High school diploma or equivalent with 5+ years of relevant professional experience may be considered in lieu of a bachelor's degree.
• Understanding of information security concepts, cybersecurity practices, and regulatory considerations related to insider threat and data protection.
• Understanding of enterprise security and networking technologies and how they support the prevention, detection, investigation, and response to insider threats.
• Experience analyzing security, behavioral, fraud, or related data to identify suspicious activity, anomalies, or potential risk.

Responsibilities

• Assess existing Insider Threat Program capabilities, identify gaps, and develop indicators to improve insider risk detection.
• Develop and enhance analytics, detection logic, and reporting used to identify potentially risky colleague activity.
• Evaluate, implement, configure, and optimize security technologies supporting insider threat monitoring, investigation, and response.
• Analyze data and security telemetry from multiple sources to identify anomalous activity, behavioral patterns, and potential insider risk.
• Collaborate with Cybersecurity, Fraud, HR, Legal, Risk, and Tech teams to operationalize insider risk processes and controls.

Skills

Security analytics

Insider threat detection

Behavior analytics

Data analysis

Investigative skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Security/Computer Science

High school diploma with 5+ years experience

Job description

Senior Security Engineer - Insider Threat

Work Arrangement

Work Arrangement: Hybrid - 4 days onsite, 1 remote in one of the following hubs: Johnston, RI | Boston, MA | Marlton, NJ | Pittsburgh, PA | Phoenix, AZ | Irving, TX | | Cleveland, OH. Remote requires executive approval.

POSITION SUMMARY

Citizens is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to support the development and advancement of its Insider Threat Program within Data Protection and Security. This role will help strengthen the organization's ability to identify, assess, detect, and respond to insider risk through security analytics, behavioral indicators, data analysis, and technology enabled controls.

The Senior Security Engineer will assess existing insider threat capabilities, identify control and visibility gaps, develop technical and behavioral indicators, and enhance analytic methods for detecting potentially risky activity. This individual will work across Cybersecurity and business teams to bring together security telemetry, user and entity behavior analytics, fraud indicators, and other relevant data sources to improve insider risk detection and response.

Success in this role requires a combination of cybersecurity knowledge, analytical thinking, technical investigation skills, and the ability to translate complex patterns of activity into actionable security insights.

WORK ARRANGEMENT

Location: Pittsburgh, PA | Johnston, RI | Remote

Schedule: Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Hours: 40 hours per week

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Assess existing Insider Threat Program capabilities, identify gaps, and develop technical and non technical indicators to improve insider risk detection.
• Develop and enhance analytics, detection logic, behavioral indicators, and reporting used to identify potentially risky colleague activity.
• Evaluate, implement, configure, and optimize security technologies supporting insider threat monitoring, investigation, and response.
• Analyze data and security telemetry from multiple sources to identify anomalous activity, behavioral patterns, and potential insider risk.
• Use user and entity behavior analytics, security monitoring, threat intelligence, and other analytic methods to identify suspicious or abnormal activity.
• Investigate complex patterns of user activity and distinguish potentially malicious or high risk behavior from expected business activity.
• Partner across Cybersecurity, Fraud, Human Resources, Legal, Risk, Technology, and other internal teams to develop and operationalize insider risk processes and controls.
• Collaborate with internal technology teams to ensure enterprise platforms and colleague facing tools provide appropriate data and telemetry to support insider threat and fraud detection.
• Create, maintain, and enhance insider threat and fraud detection reporting using multiple internal and external data sources.
• Interpret findings from security and fraud analytics to identify and escalte potential incidents involving insider threats, internal fraud, theft, data misuse, or misconduct.
• Apply statistical and analytical techniques to improve anomaly detection, alert quality, detection accuracy, and investigative effectiveness.
• Identify opportunities to reduce false positives and strengthen the signal quality of insider threat detections.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, detection methodologies, procedures, metrics, and program reporting.
• Produce meaningful program metrics and insights that communicate insider risk trends, control effectiveness, detection coverage, and areas requiring additional attention.
• Monitor evolving cyber threats, insider threat techniques, behavioral indicators, and emerging technologies that could affect the organization's risk profile.
• Communicate technical findings, emerging threats, and recommended actions to cybersecurity teams and business stakeholders.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in Information Security, Computer Science, or a related field with 1+ years of relevant experience, or equivalent professional experience.
• High school diploma or equivalent with 5+ years of relevant professional experience may be considered in lieu of a bachelor's degree.
• Understanding of information security concepts, cybersecurity practices, and regulatory considerations related to insider threat and data protection.
• Understanding of enterprise security and networking technologies and how they support the prevention, detection, investigation, and response to insider threats.
• Experience analyzing security, behavioral, fraud, or related data to identify suspicious activity, anomalies, or potential risk.
• Ability to analyze information from multiple data sources and translate findings into actionable security insights.
• Strong analytical, investigative, and problem solving skills.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office applications including Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills