Senior Director, Threat Detection & Platform Engineering

The Senior Director of Threat Detection and Platform Engineering will lead Experian's Global Security Engineering Center of Excellence, which develops fully integrated cyber fusion security engineering capabilities and platforms. You will work across a global leadership community while leading a team of engineers who develop high-quality threat detection rules, informed by the most critical threats targeting Experian. You will also lead a team of security platform engineers across multiple capabilities and platforms, including deception grid, attack simulation, SOAR, SIEM, and UEBA. You will report to the SVP of Security Architecture and Engineering.

You'll have the opportunity to:

• Lead a team that creates and implements automated workflows in tools to enhance incident response capabilities and improve security operations.
• Oversee building high-quality threat detection rules, queries, and alerts based on identified use cases, threat scenarios, and structured threat intelligence, including MITRE ATT&CK™ Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTPs).
• Provide leadership and vision to security engineering planning functions, including short-, mid-, and long-term engineering proposal solutions, technical and complex product planning, technical innovation, and strategic platform integrations.
• Participate in the Security Architecture and Engineering EGSO leadership team to help create our vision, mission, and strategic goals.
• Collaborate with a community of executives across EGSO leadership teams to deliver KPI/KRI threat detection metrics and progress reporting and strategy.
• Collaborate with teams, including Security Operations Center (SOC) analysts, Incident Responders, and Threat Intelligence researchers, to understand and respond to latest threats.
• Evaluate the recommendations and implementations of new security tools, techniques, and processes that enhance our threat detection and response capabilities by the team.
• Assess the management of detection rules and automated workflows to ensure optimal performance, effectiveness, and accuracy.
• Oversee and participate, when needed, in incident response activate and provide directives.
• Stay current on regulatory changes, latest threats, and evolving technologies, and implement appropriate control mechanisms and security architecture based on risks within Experian's environment.
• Participate in Breach Response exercises, including the establishment and validation of procedures to restore business to BAU activities.