Threat Intelligence Lead

Immediate need for a talented Threat Intelligence Lead. This is a 06 months contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Irving, TX(Onsite). Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.

Job ID:26-25365

Pay Range: $60 - $68/hour. Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the threat intelligence program, setting collection priorities based on organizational risk and stakeholder needs.
• Own the threat intelligence roadmap, focusing on program maturity, tooling, staffing, and process improvements.
• Establish and enforce standards for intelligence products, source reliability, and confidence-level reporting.
• Manage and develop the analyst team, including hiring, coaching, and performance management.
• Deliver strategic and operational intelligence, authoring high-stakes products for executive and board-level briefings.
• Direct the organization’s threat landscape assessment and prioritize vulnerability remediation guidance in partnership with Vulnerability Management.
• Own detection enablement and adversary emulation, partnering with detection engineering to convert intelligence into actionable detection logic.
• Represent threat intelligence in leadership and governance forums, collaborating with cross-functional teams to align intelligence with broader security strategy.

Key Requirements and Technology Experience:

• 6 years of experience in threat intelligence, security operations, or incident response, with prior experience mentoring or leading analysts.
• Deep working knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK, the intelligence cycle, and structured analytic techniques.
• Proven experience producing and delivering intelligence to executive and board-level audiences.
• Experience directing threat intelligence platform and vendor strategy, including feed evaluation and management.
• Strong people-leadership skills, including hiring, coaching, and performance management of analysts.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate technical findings into business risk.
• Sound analytic judgment, with the ability to state and defend confidence levels under scrutiny.
• Familiarity with Threat Intelligence Platforms (TIPs) such as MISP, ThreatConnect, Anomali, and Recorded Future.
• Experience with SIEM/SOAR tools like Splunk and Palo Alto Cortex XSOAR.
• Knowledge of malware and sandbox analysis tools, including VirusTotal and Hybrid Analysis.
• Understanding of frameworks like the MITRE ATT&CK, Diamond Model, and Cyber Kill Chain.
• Experience with OSINT and dark web tooling such as Maltego and Shodan.
• Familiarity with vulnerability and exposure data sources like CVE/NVD and CISA KEV catalog.
• Experience with program and reporting tools, including KPI dashboards and executive reporting templates.

Our client is a leading Retail Industry, and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration.

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