Join a role that's central to our technological resilience, offering a unique opportunity to shape the firm's tech risk strategy and enhance industry compliance. 

As a Tech Risk & Controls Director in Cybersecurity and Technology Controls for Data Risk & IT Asset Management, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and implementing the firm's technology risk management strategy. Leveraging your advanced knowledge and expertise in technology-risk disciplines, you will identify, oversee, and mitigate compliance and operational risks in line with the firm's standards. You will collaborate with various stakeholders, including Product Owners, Business Control Managers, and regulators, to develop and maintain a comprehensive view of the technology risk posture and its impact on the business. Your ability to make calculated decisions, manage large teams, and drive strategic projects will be crucial in ensuring the firm's adherence to regulatory obligations and industry best practices. Your work will contribute to the long-term success and resilience of the organization in an ever-evolving technology landscape.

The Cybersecurity and Technology Controls (CTC) group aligns the firm’s cybersecurity, access management, controls, and resiliency agenda. The group proactively and strategically partners with all LOBs and functions to enable them to design, adopt and integrate appropriate controls. We aim to balance these sound controls with efficiency, through smart process and automation. The group’s priority is to enable the business by keeping the firm safe, stable, and resilient. Within CTC, the controls designed to protect the firm are organized into 4 Risk Pillars (Cyber, Technology, Data, and Governance), with each pillar containing individual areas of risk designed to bring focus to a specific domain. This role is intended to provide strategic leadership for the risk areas of Information and Technology Asset Management, as well as Technology Data Management and Privacy, both aligned to the Data Risk Pillar

Job responsibilities

• Develop and implement technology risk management strategies, policies, and processes to identify, assess, and mitigate risks, and drive strategic projects and initiatives to enhance the firm's technology risk management capabilities, in line with industry best practices and the firm's standards and regulatory requirements
• Define and proactively monitor Key Risk Indicators to identify non-compliance and assist in remediation with compensating controls to address security, risk and control gaps
• Maintain an in depth understanding of the Data Risk Pillar domains consisting of Information & Technology Asset Management, Technology Data Mgmt & Privacy, and Identity & Access Mgmt.
• Maintain knowledge of Technology Architecture Governance Control Objective, driving requirements for Data Risk Pillar into process
• Support risk decisions for product roadmap prioritization and control implementations supported by documentation and substantiative evidence.
• Manage the risk profile of aligned products, and translate risks into functional requirements, non-functional requirements and constraints together with the LOB business partners and GT Product Lines
• Identify and escalate emerging and upstream technology risk through execution of the Firm’s management framework tools, including risk event management, reporting, and action plan tracking, and provide expert counsel to stakeholders and constituents regarding their security obligations, facilitating acceptable outcomes
• Establish and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including key cross-functional team leads, regulators, and auditors, to ensure compliance with legal, regulatory, and industry standards
• Manage reporting and governance of overall controls, policies, issue management, and measurements, etc., providing insight to senior leaders into effectiveness of controls and inform governance work
• Engages in areas of technology architecture, technology design, development, and monitoring of global control programs and acts as a liaison between management, lines of business, internal and external audit, and global regulators. 

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 7 years of experience or equivalent expertise in technology risk management, information security, or a related field, with a focus on managing risk identification, assessment, and mitigation
• Experience supporting regulatory engagements primarily aligned to the FFIEC Architecture, Infrastructure, and Operations (AIO) and Information Security handbooks.
• Demonstrated expertise in risk management frameworks, industry standards, and regulatory requirements relevant to the financial industry that include NIST, MITR ATT&CK, Data Mgmt. Book of Knowledge (DMBOK), and others.
• Strong knowledge in the ITAM and Technology Data Mgmt. & Privacy risks and controls
• Proven ability to lead large teams, manage cross-functional projects, influence executive-level strategic decision-making, and effectively translate technology insights to business strategy in communications with senior executives
• Advanced knowledge and experience leading data security, risk assessment & reporting, and control evaluation, design, and governance, with a track record of implementing effective risk mitigation strategies