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 escalate 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.
• Ability to communicate complex security concepts and investigative findings clearly to both technical and non technical stakeholders.
• Ability to execute work independently while collaborating effectively across technical and business teams.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
• 3+ years of experience in information security, cybersecurity, insider threat, security analytics, fraud detection, threat intelligence, or a related discipline.
• Experience supporting or developing an enterprise Insider Threat Program.
• Experience configuring or using User Behavior Analytics or User and Entity Behavior Analytics platforms.
• Experience with security event monitoring, incident detection, incident response, threat intelligence, or enterprise network monitoring.
• Experience developing detection logic, behavioral indicators, alerting methodologies, or security analytics.
• Experience analyzing security or fraud detection reports to identify potential incidents involving internal fraud, theft, data misuse, or misconduct.
• Experience creating and maintaining insider threat, fraud detection, security analytics, or risk reporting.
• Advanced knowledge of statistics, modeling, anomaly detection, behavioral analytics, or alert tuning.
• Knowledge of machine learning and its application to cybersecurity, behavioral analytics, or anomaly detection.
• Experience as a security consultant or in a cybersecurity advisory capacity.
• Experience within financial services or another highly regulated industry.
• Experience working across Cybersecurity, Fraud, Human Resources, Legal, Risk, Compliance, and Technology functions on sensitive security investigations or risk initiatives.
• Associate of ISC2, CISSP, Security+, or comparable cybersecurity certification.
• Master's degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Data Analytics, or a related field.
Pay Transparency
The salary range for this position is $114,000 - $152,000 per year, plus an opportunity to earn additional incentive earnings. Actual pay is based on various factors including but not limited to the budget, work location, and relevant skills and experience.
We offer competitive pay, comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage, retirement benefits, maternity/paternity leave, flexible work arrangements, education reimbursement, wellness programs and more. Note, Citizens' paid time off policy exceeds the mandatory, paid sick or paid time-away policy of every local and state jurisdiction in the United States. For an overview of our benefits, visit https://jobs.citizensbank.com/benefits.
