Senior Manager, Detection Strategy (US)

Senior Manager Of Detection Strategy

Work Location : Mount Laurel, New Jersey, United States Of America Hours : 40

Pay Details : $115,440 - $173,160 USD TD is committed to providing fair and equitable compensation opportunities to all colleagues. Growth opportunities and skill development are defining features of the colleague experience at TD. Our compensation policies and practices have been designed to allow colleagues to progress through the salary range over time as they progress in their role. The base pay actually offered may vary based upon the candidate's skills and experience, job-related knowledge, geographic location, and other specific business and organizational needs. As a candidate, you are encouraged to ask compensation related questions and have an open dialogue with your recruiter who can provide you more specific details for this role.

Line Of Business : Technology Solutions

Job Description : Seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior Manager of Detection Strategy to lead the development, implementation, and optimization of detection frameworks that mitigate internal and external risks to the organization. This role is pivotal in bridging intelligence, analytics, data, and controls to proactively identify and respond to insider threats. You will work cross-functionally with engineering, operations, compliance, product, legal, and data science teams to build a robust, scalable, and measurable detection ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities

Detection Strategy Development : Design and lead the development of comprehensive detection strategies for emerging and existing threat typologies.

Data-Driven Rule Design : Leverage behavioral, transactional, and contextual data to define rule-based and model-based detection logic aligned with risk appetite and operational efficiency.

Threat Typology & Use Case Mapping : Maintain and enhance a library of threat typologies, aligning detection strategies with threat scenarios, business products, customer segments, and regulatory expectations.

Performance Monitoring & Optimization : Track the effectiveness of detection rules and models through KPIs (alert volumes, true positive rates, precision, suppression rates) and drive tuning efforts.

Cross-Functional Collaboration : Partner with product, technology, compliance, fraud ops, and data science teams to operationalize detection strategies and improve alert quality.

Change Management & Governance : Document detection strategy changes, support internal reviews, and contribute to governance forums, audits, and regulatory exams.

Team Leadership : Mentor, guide, and develop a team of detection analysts and strategy specialists to ensure continuous growth and high performance.

Depth & Scope

Provides people management leadership by hiring the best talent, setting goals, developing staff, managing employee performance and compensation decisions, promoting teamwork and handling any / all disciplinary actions, as required

Oversees and leads a highly complex and diverse function for an area of significant risk, complexity or scope while growing talent, developing skills and capabilities to achieve career goals, support project / initiative success and achieve business results

Manages and oversees the overall discipline and strategy for the respective areas while aligning to the enterprise best practices

Provides coaching, mentorship and guidance to practitioners, business, executives within area of expertise

Strategic partner to leadership team on the management of the function, with deep industry, external / internal, enterprise knowledge, recognizes and anticipates emerging trends and identifies operational efficiencies and opportunities with other business management / enterprise areas

Sets operational team direction and collaborate with others to execute on common goals

Focuses on longer-range planning for functional area (e.g. 12 months or greater)

Develops, communicates and implements a holistic governance and control strategy for own specific business function in support of and integrated with the overall business strategy

Manages and plans activities that require alignment across multiple areas

Leads the implementation of regulatory change management and provides guidance to the team in the development and / or integrated implementation of policies / procedures / changes across multiple business / functional areas

Leads partnership with management and respective teams for area of specialization with industry, enterprise, and business awareness; recognizing and anticipating emerging trends and; identifying issues and opportunities and recommending actions to senior management

Ensures all administration, control and compliance activities are complete and accurate to meet targets for own area

Ensures an integrated and aggregated view of all related business risk and control activities across the overall function providing escalations, recommendations, and decision support to leadership

Forecasts programs / initiatives and demand, and coordinates prioritization of the portfolio / initiatives with key stakeholders

Provides functional / business level communications to ensure messages to stakeholders and / or employees are consistent, appropriate and aligned to business risk strategies and executive management direction

Provides direction to complex, wide ranging enterprise or cross-function / business projects as a SME and participates in designing, testing, and implementation of solutions

Education & Experience

4-year degree or equivalent experience

10+ years of related experience

Demonstrated track record of cost, quality and schedule control of projects

Proven ability to effectively manage projects

Strong negotiation and conflict resolution skills

Detail oriented

Ability to exercise sound judgment

Excellent oral and written communication skills

Strong teamwork and client skills

Highly motivated

In-depth knowledge of construction standards, work methods, equipment and materials, operating practices and applicable codes

PC proficiency in MS Access, MS Word, MS Excel

Highest personal & professional integrity & standards, & advance TD's vision & protect the brand

Excellent judgment, including achieving the right risk / reward balance

Transparent communicator & respected TD representative, both internally and externally

Advance TD's leadership development, employee experience & diversity agenda

Role-models behaviors consistent with TD's leadership profile

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in a quantitative discipline (e.g., Data Science, Economics, Engineering, Computer Science, Risk Management)

Experience in financial crimes, fraud detection, cyber or insider risk, or related analytics roles

Proven ability to design and optimize detection rules or models using structured and unstructured data

Strong knowledge of detection systems, UEBA, case management tools, and alerting technologies

Experience with SQL, Python, or similar tools for data analysis and prototyping

Experience working with cross-functional teams, including engineering, compliance, and analytics

Excellent communication skillswritten and verbaland ability to present to senior leadership

Experience in regulated industries (e.g., banking, fintech)

Familiarity with ML / AI applications for detection and risk mitigation

Knowledge of frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK, NIST

Hands-on experience with commercial detection tools

Physical Requirements

Never : 0%; Occasional : 1-33%; Frequent : 34-66%; Continuous : 67-100%

Domestic Travel Occasional

International Travel Never

Performing sedentary work Continuous

Performing multiple tasks Continuous

Operating standard office equipment - Continuous

Responding quickly to sounds Occasional

Sitting Continuous

Standing Occasional

Walking Occasional

Moving safely in confined spaces Occasional

Lifting / Carrying (under 25 lbs.) Occasional

Lifting / Carrying (over 25 lbs.) Never

Squatting Occasional

Bending Occasional

Kneeling Never

Crawling Never

Climbing Never

Reaching overhead Never

Reaching forward Occasional

Pushing Never

Pulling Never

Twisting Never

Concentrating for long periods of time Continuous

Applying common sense to deal with problems involving standardized situations Continuous

Reading, writing and comprehending instructions Continuous

Adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing Continuous

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and