Cyber Threat Intelligence Team Lead - Remote Eligible

Cyber Threat Intelligence Team Lead

The Cyber Threat Intelligence Team Lead will play a pivotal role in building and leading a world-class Cyber Intelligence program for a major client of Control Risks. This role will be responsible for developing the strategy, building out capabilities, and leading a team of security professionals to proactively detect, triage, and respond to cyber threats.

This position provides technical direction and administrative oversight on all cybersecurity matters, ensuring the protection of the client's systems, networks, and data. The Manager supports a strong first line ownership model by partnering with technology and business stakeholders to embed security into planning, development, and operational activities.

Responsibilities include:

• Working closely with client stakeholders to build, manage, and scale a Cyber Threat Intelligence Team from the ground up.
• Leading the development of standard operating procedures for threat intelligence activities.
• Leading the management of most severe and critical cyber security incidents.
• Training, mentoring threat intelligence analysts, engineers, and threat hunters.
• Establishing operational processes, escalation paths, and playbooks.
• Overseeing the triage of cyber events, ensuring rapid identification, investigation, and remediation.
• Managing incident response activities, coordinating across IT, Legal, Risk, and other stakeholders.
• Developing metrics, KPIs, and reporting to measure SOC effectiveness.
• Leading proactive threat hunting operations to identify potential compromises and undetected malicious activity.
• Integrating threat intelligence into SOC workflows and leveraging intelligence to inform response and prevention strategies.
• Evaluating and optimizing the client's technology stack.
• Driving continuous improvement of detection rules, automation, and response capabilities.
• Recommending emerging tools and processes to enhance maturity.
• Conducting regular check-ins, providing coaching and feedback, managing performance reviews and improvement plans, and supporting career development with the members of your team.
• Serving as the main liaison between team members and ECS program management team, ensuring timely program and personnel updates and controlling quality on client deliverables.
• With the support of the Talent Acquisition team, participating in hiring processes ensuring team resourcing aligns with client expectations and program needs.
• Leading onboarding tasks, managing offboarding logistics, and ensuring operational continuity.
• Managing team schedules, approving PTO, ensuring timesheet compliance, and maintaining a consistent high-quality service to the client.
• Working closely with the ECS program management team to align on overall program strategy and priorities to create clear, actionable, team deliverables.