eCrime Senior Defense Manager

About this role:
Wells Fargo is building an exciting new cross-functional team to proactively detect and rapidly respond to emerging eCrime threats and cyber-enabled financial crimes. This multidisciplinary team will require diverse expertise across cyber security threat detection and response, offensive cybercrime security research, complex financial crime investigations (fraud, Anti-Money Laundering), fraud strategies, data science, and operations. The mission is to mitigate fraud losses and operational expenses while protecting customers and clients. Aligned to the primary attack vectors, the team will drive forward the development of cutting-edge analytics and data collection methodologies to improve the detection and prevention of financial crimes with a nexus to fraud.
Responsibilities:

• Lead external threat Intelligence to collect external data and create actionable fraud and financial crime intelligence for enterprise control owners.
• Co-lead internal threat hunting and analytical research to detect active attacks, emerging trends, shifts in financially motivated criminal behavior.
• Support control validation testing to identify and remediate control and data visibility gaps by emulating financially motivated criminal tactics, techniques, procedures (TTPs).

In this role, you will:

• Manage a team responsible for enhancing the organization's ability to detect and prevent fraud, customer scams, and mitigate cyber-enabled financial crimes.
• Develop new signals and rapid prototypes to mitigate fraud losses and cybercrime exposure.
• Assess criminal enablement tools/services, develop new fingerprint and detection capabilities, conduct advanced threat simulations, and perform control test.
• Mitigate fraud losses and operational expenses by improving mean-time-to-detect (MTD).
• Partner with Engineering on deploying production-ready/scalable capabilities.
• Drive efficiency, automation, and collaboration across relevant horizontal processes.
• Detect account patterns and features linked to Crime-as-a-Service enablers and cybercriminal tactic, techniques, and procedures (TTPs).
• Develop a deep understanding of internal systems that could be exploited by financially motivated criminals.
• Lead Enterprise cross-functional working groups and interface with senior executives.
• Lead external engagements and cross-sector working groups and threat cells aligned to Wells Fargo priorities.
• Manage the fraud Threat Intelligence Platform, threat intelligence and reporting job procedures, drive accountability to execution against priority, business, and strategic intelligence requirements.

Required Qualifications:

• 6+ years of Information Security Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 3+ years of management or leadership experience

Desired Qualifications:

• 5+ years of managing people, serving as a team lead, and/or leading cross-sector external engagements (eg, working groups, threat cells, coordinated investigations)
• Deep understanding of cloud native adversaries, bank crypto custody and transactional risk, fraud AI/Deepfakes, New Account Fraud (NAF), Account Take Over (ATO), customer scams, fraud driven money laundering, money movement technology abuse, theft, sale, use of compromised PII, trusted device, spoofing, obfuscation crimeware, attacks on tokenization technologies, Internal fraud.
• Advanced operational security when performing external research.
• Advanced fraud and financial crime threat detection skills leveraging Python and Third-Party tools.
• Advanced understanding of BOT mitigation platforms and edge security controls. Advanced threat intelligence and incident response lifecycle management.
• Knowledge of FinCEN's financial crime priorities, including BSA/AML.
• Firsthand experience handling sensitive information and deep understanding of traffic light protocols

Job Expectations and Core Values:
Be Humble: You're smart yet always interested in learning from others
Work Transparently: You always deal in an honest, direct, and transparent way.
Take Ownership: You embrace responsibility and find joy in having the answers
Learn More: You regularly self-educate and improve your skill set.
Show Gratitude: You show appreciation and respect to those you work with
There is no Visa Sponsorship for this role.
Ability to travel up to 15%
Pay for this role in Charlotte NC and Columbus OH is between $159K to $254K.
Pay Range
Reflected is the base pay range offered for this position. Pay may vary depending on factors including but not limited to demonstrated examples of prior performance, skills, experience, or work location. Employees may also be eligible for incentive opportunities.
$159,000.00 - $254,000.00
Benefits
Wells Fargo provides eligible employees with a comprehensive set of benefits, many of which are listed below. Visit Benefits - Wells Fargo Jobs for an overview of the following benefit plans and programs offered to employees.

• Health benefits
• 401(k) Plan
• Paid time off
• Disability benefits
• Life insurance, critical illness insurance, and accident insurance
• Parental leave
• Critical caregiving leave
• Discounts and savings
• Commuter benefits
• Tuition reimbursement
• Scholarships for dependent children
• Adoption reimbursement

Posting End Date:
29 Jan 2026
* Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
We Value Equal Opportunity
Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.
Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit's risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.
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