Market Data Analyst

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Job Title: Market Data Analyst / Splunk - Web Application Development/Security

Location: Dublin 3 days in office

Contract: 12 months contract

Rate: (Apply online only) Euros - inside umbrella

This is an opportunity to learn and grow professionally in detecting and preventing digital fraud for the CashPro Fraud Detection and Security (FDS) team. The role will initially involve performing daily quality assurance, and metrics and reporting functions. As the person gains experience with the team's mission, the role will transition and be more involved in daily fraud event analysis. Fraud Analysts are responsible for the understanding, assessing the impact of, and implementing control functions regarding new technical bank policies and fraud events. This resource will need to understand or have the desire to learn technical architecture and application design to aid in researching alerts. You may be an ideal candidate if you have previous experience as part of an architecture or software engineering team, or as a technical analyst

Primary Skills:

Perform QA of daily fraud alerts to ensure consistency with documented procedures

Create Daily, Weekly and Monthly reports reflecting alert volume and quality assurance results
Investigate abnormal behavior for threats or system abuse
Identify emerging threats and fraud patterns
Recommend potential application solutions to prevent abuse
Stays up to date on trending malware and major security vulnerabilities
Communicate scope and impact of identified issues

Required Skills:

Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written skills
Ability to work both independently and as part of a team
Strong organizational and process management skills
Proficiency in data analytics, data aggregation tools and large data sets
Ability to extract data using a variety of tools and methods
Ability to analyze data and identify elements to detect anomalous behavior
Knowledgeable in common application security vulnerabilities

Desired Skills

Previous experience utilizing Splunk is highly desired. (skills in Splunk query language, data ingestion, and data analysis techniques, along with an understanding of the business operations and security landscape
Experience in either web application development or web application security
Familiarity with fraudster techniques and signatures of malware
Experience with common programming and scripting languages
Technical experience with defensive tools for actioning threat intelligence including tools like SIEM, EDR, Big Data Platforms, etc.

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