Senior Threat Detection Lead - SOAR & SIEM Expert

ADP; Roseland (NJ); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

ADP is seeking a Senior Lead Threat Detection Engineer to join its Global Security team. You will collaborate across Critical Incident Response Center, Threat Intelligence, Threat Hunting, Red Team, and AppDev to design, implement, and refine detection capabilities that protect ADP assets.

The role emphasizes leadership, mentoring, and building scalable detection workflows with SOAR, while partnering with IT, Ops, and Engineering to troubleshoot production issues and improve detection quality.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent required.
• 5-7 years of security experience including threat detection, hunt, incident response and SOAR development.
• Experience with SIEM and SOAR platforms.
• Strong knowledge of databases and data warehousing.
• Experience with scripting (Python, PowerShell).

Responsibilities

• Develop and drive detection workflows and alerting for our SOAR platform based on requests from stakeholders, threat intelligence, threat hunting.
• Provide technical mentorship and support to detection engineers as contributors toward program objectives.
• Lead detection projects driven by internal and external groups.
• Lead technical relationships with detection vendors, troubleshooting and driving feature requests for future releases.
• Co-develop a roadmap for the Threat Detection team aligned with Hunt and Threat Management missions.
• Maintain expert understanding of attacks, vectors, and emergent threats and incorporate into detections.

Skills

detection engineering

SOAR development

detection workflows

mentoring

vendor relationships

roadmap development

threat detection concepts

threat hunting

incident response

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

SIEM

SOAR

Python

PowerShell

Data warehouse

Job description

ADP is seeking a Senior Lead Threat Detection Engineer to join its Global Security team. You will collaborate across Critical Incident Response Center, Threat Intelligence, Threat Hunting, Red Team, and AppDev to design, implement, and refine detection capabilities that protect ADP assets.

The role emphasizes leadership, mentoring, and building scalable detection workflows with SOAR, while partnering with IT, Ops, and Engineering to troubleshoot production issues and improve detection quality.