About the job
Lead Bank builds modern banking infrastructure for embedded financial products and services. With headquarters in Kansas City and offices in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, and New York City, the team combines technology, product, design, and legal expertise to help shape the future of finance. The company operates at the intersection of technology and regulation, supporting fintech partners as they grow while remaining compliant and innovative.
Technical depth in banking and payments systems, automated compliance, transparency, and operational integrity are core values at Lead Bank.
Role overview
The Senior Security Analyst joins the Security Operations team in New York on a hybrid schedule. This position focuses on strengthening detection and response capabilities across the organization. Work includes building detections, triaging alerts, responding to incidents, and proactively hunting threats in cloud infrastructure, security tools, and data pipelines. Mentoring junior analysts and collaborating with leadership to improve the security posture are also key parts of the role. Deep understanding of the regulatory landscape and experience defending against advanced persistent threats are important for success in this position.
Key responsibilities
- Develop, tune, and maintain detection rules and alerts in the SIEM. Build queries to identify threats and coverage gaps using the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
- Lead incident response from start to finish, including containment, eradication, recovery, forensic log analysis, documenting lessons learned, and post-incident reporting.
- Monitor and investigate security events across endpoints, AWS cloud, identity, and network telemetry to detect misconfigurations, anomalous activities, and suspicious behaviors.
- Support security audits and regulatory examinations by providing timely and accurate security documentation and evidence.
