Senior Manager, Detection Strategy (US)

Work Location:

Mount Laurel, New Jersey, United States of America

Hours:

40

Pay Details:

$115,440 - $173,160 USD

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Line of Business:

Technology Solutions

Job Description:

Seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior Manager of Detection Strategy to lead the development, implementation, and optimization of detection frameworks that mitigate internal and external risks to the organization. This role is pivotal in bridging intelligence, analytics, data, and controls to proactively identify and respond to insider threats.

You will work cross-functionally with engineering, operations, compliance, product, legal, and data science teams to build a robust, scalable, and measurable detection ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities

• Detection Strategy Development: Design and lead the development of comprehensive detection strategies for emerging and existing threat typologies.
• Data-Driven Rule Design: Leverage behavioral, transactional, and contextual data to define rule-based and model-based detection logic aligned with risk appetite and operational efficiency.
• Threat Typology & Use Case Mapping: Maintain and enhance a library of threat typologies, aligning detection strategies with threat scenarios, business products, customer segments, and regulatory expectations.
• Performance Monitoring & Optimization: Track the effectiveness of detection rules and models through KPIs (alert volumes, true positive rates, precision, suppression rates) and drive tuning efforts.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with product, technology, compliance, fraud ops, and data science teams to operationalize detection strategies and improve alert quality.
• Change Management & Governance: Document detection strategy changes, support internal reviews, and contribute to governance forums, audits, and regulatory exams.
• Team Leadership: Mentor, guide, and develop a team of detection analysts and strategy specialists to ensure continuous growth and high performance.

Depth & Scope:

• Provides people management leadership by hiring the best talent, setting goals, developing staff, managing employee performance and compensation decisions, promoting teamwork and handling any/all disciplinary actions, as required
• Oversees and leads a highly complex and diverse function for an area of significant risk, complexity or scope while growing talent, developing skills and capabilities to achieve career goals, support project / initiative success and achieve business results
• Manages and oversees the overall discipline and strategy for the respective areas while aligning to the enterprise best practices
• Provides coaching, mentorship and guidance to practitioners, business, executives within area of expertise
• Strategic partner to leadership team on the management of the function, with deep industry, external / internal, enterprise knowledge, recognizes and anticipates emerging trends and identifies operational efficiencies and opportunities with other business management / enterprise areas
• Sets operational team direction and collaborate with others to execute on common goals
• Focuses on longer-range planning for functional area (e.g. 12 months or greater)
• Develops, communicates and implements a holistic governance and control strategy for own specific business function in support of and integrated with the overall business strategy
• Manages and plans activities that require alignment across multiple areas
• Leads the implementation of regulatory change management and provides guidance to the team in the development and/or integrated implementation of policies / procedures / changes across multiple business / functional areas
• Leads partnership with management and respective teams for area of specialization with industry, enterprise, and business awareness; recognizing and anticipating emerging trends and; identifying issues and opportunities and recommending actions to senior management
• Ensures all administratio