Cybersecurity Data Scientist

Grow your career with a growing organization

Whether they’re helping people reach their long-term financial goals or providing personal wealth management strategies, every associate contributes to changing the lives of those we serve for the better. When it comes to job satisfaction, that’s hard to beat. And from a personal satisfaction perspective, you’ll enjoy the freedom to support causes that matter to you and experience a truly inclusive work environment. Your future starts now.

As a Cybersecurity Data Scientist, you will develop, maintain, and implement comprehensive information security monitoring programs in large and complex environments. You’ll perform comprehensive threat analyses and recommend an appropriate course of action, mitigation, and remediation. Additionally, you will provide consultative guidance on the development of information security strategies and programs through demonstrated expertise and knowledge of industry trends and changes with respect to advanced and sophisticated cyberattacks and threats.

What you will do:

• Perform forensic analysis for fraud-related investigations and support the Fraud Operations/CSI teams in their investigations. Perform advanced analytics on fraud and cyberattack data to identify trends, inform our investigations teams, and lead to the addition of useful detection functionality
• Identify and implement the appropriate infrastructure to support the fraud model detection tool and other custom tools, including the procurement, configuration, and support of the necessary AWS resources
• Based on analysis, design and code the logic used by the fraud model to identify red flag data features and the associated alerting logic
• Design and creation of monitoring, reporting, and alerting capabilities for our systems and tools. Support the cybersecurity and fraud teams with their reporting requirements for both existing business and implement changes to these reporting processes to integrate new data related to business acquisitions
• Perform testing to ensure detection techniques, reporting and fraud model functionality is working as expected
• Conduct data and threat analysis, security risk assessments, evaluating security services, and threat technologies in response to security events and trends
• Assist in SOC operations as needed such as data trending, statistical analysis, incident investigation/mitigation, etc.
• Develop machine learning models to derive cyber insights and threat intelligence
• Develop algorithms and models based on analyst use cases for security log data. Apply anomaly detection techniques to log data

What you will bring:

• 5 years of relevant work experience in data analytics, cybersecurity, fraud detection or related consulting. Experience building custom statistical/machine learning models, and analyzing unstructured data
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, Computer Science, or other quantitative/statistical discipline
• Expert technical competency analyzing large datasets using software such as Python, SAS, and SQL
• Ability to apply a variety of statistical techniques such as regression, machine learning, and cluster analysis. Programming experience in the multiple phases of a complex modelling initiative – data preprocessing, feature engineering, algorithm selection, model training & evaluation, and on-going support of models in production

What will set you apart:

• Experience using AWS Sagemaker, Splunk Machine Learning Toolkit or SAS Viya is preferred
• Experience with log data analytics and anomaly detection algorithms. Experience with data science sampling techniques appropriate for imbalanced class supervised machine learning classification problems
• Experience in database environments such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, and NoSQL
• Polished written and oral communication skills, with ability to present and clearly explain data to non-technical executive audiences. Possess a consultative nature, with proven record of accomplishment using data to provide actionable business results
• Prior exposure to financial services industry

***Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time, including CPT/OPT.***

What we offer you

We offer an array of diverse and inclusive benefits regardless of where you are in your career. We believe that providing our employees with the means to lead healthy balanced lives results in the best possible work performance.

• Medical, dental, vision and life insurance
• Retirement savings – 401(k) plan with generous company matching contributions (up to 6