Cyber Crime Sr. Specialist (cyber Threat Exp. Required)

Bank of America Bank of America · Banking · Addison, TX +2

This role focuses on enterprise brand protection, specifically defending against email and domain-based threats like phishing and spoofing. It involves developing strategies, designing control frameworks, and driving automation to reduce risk and disrupt threat actors. The role requires expertise in cyber threat analysis, email authentication, and stakeholder engagement.

What you'd actually do

  1. Serve as SME and strategic advisor on email and domain-based threats, including phishing, BEC, spoofing, domain squatting, and brand abuse.
  2. Develop and execute scalable Cyber Brand Defense strategies to reduce risk and strengthen proactive threat disruption.
  3. Partner with Global Technology to enhance email authentication, domain security, and preventative control adoption.
  4. Design, document, and govern brand abuse control frameworks, including playbooks, workflows, procedures, and performance metrics.
  5. Collaborate with Legal and external partners to execute domain protection strategies, abuse escalations, and malicious asset takedowns.

Skills

Required

  • Cyber Threat experience
  • Strategic approach to defensive protection and complex threat landscapes
  • Experience with email and domain-based threat landscapes, including phishing, spoofing, domain/typo-squatting, and brand impersonation
  • Strong working knowledge of email authentication protocols (SPF, DKIM, DMARC) and their implementation, monitoring, enforcement
  • Proven ability to analyze threat trends and translate intelligence into actionable remediation and prevention strategies
  • Demonstrated experience developing, documenting, and maintaining controls, procedures, and operational metrics
  • Executive-ready communications judgment and discretion; ability to engage senior leaders with credibility and professionalism.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; ability to translate complex risk into clear, executive-level insights and recommendations.
  • Ability to lead and influence without formal authority across Lines of Business, Technology, Legal, and Risk stakeholders
  • Experience managing vendors and external partners, including tracking, escalation, and SLA governance
  • Experience working with external partners and vendors (e.g., registrars, hosting providers, security vendors) to disrupt and mitigate threats
  • Strong understanding of cybersecurity risk management principles and control frameworks
  • Demonstrated capability to drive process improvement, automation, and operational scalability
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills in fast-paced, threat-driven environments
  • Proficiency with operational tracking and reporting tools (e.g., Jira, Excel, PowerPoint or equivalent.

Nice to have

  • Experience with DMARC enforcement at scale
  • Familiarity with domain monitoring and threat intelligence tools (e.g., brand monitoring platforms, passive DNS, certificate transparency logs)
  • Knowledge of legal and regulatory processes related to domain takedowns, UDRP, and brand protection enforcement
  • Experience supporting or leading incident response for phishing campaigns, BEC, or large-scale domain abuse

What the JD emphasized

  • Cyber Threat experience
  • email and domain-based threat landscapes
  • email authentication protocols (SPF, DKIM, DMARC)
  • automation and orchestration initiatives