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# Cyber Security Threat Management Associate Director

- **Company:** The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation
- **Location:** Jersey City, NJ, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Cyber Security, Blue Team (Cyber Security)
- **Published:** October 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.themuse.com/jobs/dtcc/cyber-security-threat-management-associate-director-e8797e

## About the Role

* Minimum of 8 years of related experience
 * Bachelor's degree preferred and/or equivalent experience

Talents Needed for Success:

 * Have at least five (5) years previous experience in cybersecurity or security operations.
 * Have experience successfully leading technical projects requiring collaboration with multiple people.
 * Demonstrate superior tactical leadership of teams to accomplish technical tasks and projects.
 * Demonstrate strategic leadership by setting goals, developing plans of actions, assigning tasks, measuring progress, and motivating team members to accomplish goals.
 * Demonstrate the ability to produce written reports including detailed analysis and recommendations.
 * Demonstrate the ability to convey complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
 * Demonstrate the ability to take minimal high-level requirements and independently produce and execute an action plan to accomplish tasks.
 * Demonstrate the ability to independently prioritize and manage several important tasks.
 * Demonstrate the ability to proactively identify and address potential issues without specific direction.
 * Demonstrate emotional intelligence and understanding of management principles.
 * Demonstrate a strong desire to achieve and contribute to a high-performing team.

## Description

Being a member of CISO team, reporting to the Cyber Monitoring and Incident Response Team Director, you are responsible for managing a functional team of analysts and associates who detect, investigate, and respond to cyber security events in the organization. As a first-line manager, you provide both technical leadership and people management for your team, overseeing key projects and initiatives as well as ensuring day-to-day operations operate effectively. As the senior member of your functional team, you are a member of the Cyber Monitoring and Incident Response Team (CMIR) and as a result may be tasked with responding to cyber incidents outside of normal work hours.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

 * Be accountable for your team's day to day operations and strategic performance.
 * Model appropriate behavior, attitude, and tone for your team.
 * Effectively delegate tasks, empower team members, and remove impediments to accomplish the mission.
 * Effectively communicate expectations, goals, and objectives to the team.
 * Act as Incident Commander on major (P1) incidents and as an escalation point for your team for critical tasks.
 * Set and achieve high-quality goals and objectives for the team and work with team members to develop high-performing individual goals that align with team goals.
 * Attract and retain high-quality team members that match with the team's mission and objectives.
 * Evaluate, train, mentor, and develop each of your team members to make them as successful as possible at DTCC.
 * Utilize metrics, feedback from team leads, feedback from stakeholders, threat intelligence, and industry best practices to continuously evaluate and improve security posture.
 * Lead and evangelize training, process improvements, reporting, and other key initiatives.
 * Occasionally travel to conferences, training, and other DTCC offices (up to 20%).
 * Be the escalation contact for on-call rotation and perform emergency after-hours work when needed.
 * Create messaging, socialize Blue Team programs, and evangelize security at DTCC.
 * Follow DTCC's ITIL process for incident, change and problem resolution