We are seeking a Senior Threat Intelligence Analyst reporting directly to the Tactical CTI team manager. This role is focused on understanding and anticipating the tactics of advanced persistent threat (APT) actors, particularly as they adopt and weaponize AI and emerging technologies, and translating that understanding into actionable guidance for defensive strategy and architecture.

Operating at the forefront of a rapidly evolving threat landscape, you will lead the analysis and synthesis of threat intelligence to provide deep insight into how sophisticated actors target modern enterprise environments. Your work will emphasize understanding not just what threats are active, but how and why they operate—informing proactive defensive decisions.

You will work closely with external partners, threat intelligence teams, security architects, technical control owners, and security testing functions to ensure adversary behavior and attack lifecycles are meaningfully reflected in threat models, secure architecture designs, and advanced defensive considerations. This includes providing expert input to architecture and design discussions to ensure controls are resilient against highly capable and adaptive adversaries.

What you will be responsible for

As a Senior Intelligence Analyst, you will:

• Lead collaborative workstreams with external partners to identify and understand advanced and emerging threats
• Work day‑to‑day with security architects, platform engineers, and advanced defensive teams to ensure APT tradecraft, attacker behavior, and AI‑enabled threat scenarios are explicitly reflected in threat models and architectural decisions.
• Translate advanced persistent threat actor tactics, techniques, and attack lifecycles into concrete architectural risks, defensive assumptions, and design constraints for modern enterprise and cloud environments.
• Collaborate closely with technical control owners to map adversary techniques to real control implementations, identifying gaps or misalignment against advanced and adaptive threats.
• Provide intelligence‑driven input into threat modeling exercises, helping teams identify realistic attack paths, trust boundary weaknesses, and high‑impact failure modes.
• Partner with advanced defensive and detection engineering teams to inform control design, detection strategies, and response patterns based on observed and emerging APT behavior.
• Work with security testing teams (e.g., red team, adversary emulation, assurance functions) to ensure testing scenarios and hypotheses are aligned to current and anticipated APT tactics, including AI‑assisted techniques.
• Act as a trusted intelligence advisor during architecture and design reviews, clearly articulating how design choices influence exposure to sophisticated threat actors.
• Continuously assess how new technologies and platforms—including cloud‑native services, automation, and AI systems—change attacker opportunities and threat modeling assumptions.

What we value

These skills will help you succeed in this role

• Expertise in advanced persistent threat (APT) actors, including how sophisticated adversaries adapt tactics, techniques, and tooling—especially through the use of AI and emerging technologies.
• Strong ability to translate threat intelligence into threat models, attack paths, and architectural risk scenarios that resonate with engineers and architects.
• Proven experience collaborating closely with security architects, advanced defensive engineers, and technical control owners to influence design and control decisions.
• Solid understanding of security controls and trust boundaries across identity, cloud, network, endpoint, and application layers, and how they fail under real adversary pressure.
• Ability to reason about modern architectures and platforms and assess how design choices change attacker opportunities and defensive assumptions.
• Clear, credible communicator who can operate as a trusted advisor, synthesizing intelligence and technical insight into actionable guidance for engineering and security leadership.

Education & Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of operational experience in cyber defense, threat intelligence, or security testing
• Active TS/SCI clearance
• Located in the Washington, D.C. area
• Prior experience performing intelligence threat modeling and using threat intelligence to inform defensive considerations
• Prior experience supporting large, complex enterprises; financial services or other highly regulated environments preferred
• Practical understanding of modern enterprise technology stacks
• Prior experience tracking advancements in AI and other emerging technologies
• Prior experience working closely with threat hunt, security operations, vulnerability management, and offensive security teams

Additional requirements

Occasional travel required

Salary Range:

$120,000 - $202,500 Annual

The range quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the primary location above, the applicable range could differ.

Employees are eligible to participate in State Street’s comprehensive benefits program, which includes: our retirement savings plan (401K) with company match; insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages; paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities; access to our Employee Assistance Program; incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans); and, eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans.

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