Technology Risk Manager

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Job Description


The Technology, Cybersecurity, and Digital, Data, and AI Risk team provide support to our business partners to maintain an agile, well-controlled environment that can rapidly and reliably deliver services across the enterprise. This Technology Risk Manager position will support the Enterprise Data Office. To achieve this, the Technology Risk Manager must develop a deep understanding of the aligned leader's area and partner to:

• Consult control owners and leaders about the risk profile of their portfolios of processes and applications
• Serve as a trusted risk advisor to aligned Technology leaders
• Identify and address risks before they impact objectives
• Oversee and enable the aligned Technology team's compliance with existing and new requirements
• Evaluate and consult on the risks associated with strategic priorities or major programs and projects
• Provide actionable information to help prioritize risk-mitigation actions across the portfolio of platforms/applications managed by the leader
• Design and enhance effective control environments for technology products and services
• Simplify the existing control environment using process/control re-engineering and automation
• Respond to unexpected events and findings

Top 3 Skills

• Technology Risk Management
• Data Management, Data Architecture, and Data Governance
• Product Management

Top 3 Responsibilities

• Identify, monitor, and report on processes, risks, and controls within risk appetite
• Influence risk-based outcomes within the Technology group's portfolios
• Provide guidance on how to effectively achieve and sustain compliance with regulatory, industry and contractual obligations, as well as information security policies and practices

Other role responsibilities include

• Collaborate to drive strategic outcomes for the good of the overall team
• Consult on strategic initiatives that are defined by the product area owner; ensure risks are appropriately documented, reported, and escalated
• Provide advisory and implementation support in the development of management responses to manage associated risk
• Perform risk assessments to evaluate compliance with existing policies and procedures and to accurately identify risks and drive remediation processes to ensure that compliance and security gaps are addressed
• Use data analysis to help aligned Program Leaders develop proactive and anticipatory approaches to risk management
• Support aligned Technology or Business Line team in demonstrating evidence of control effectiveness and identify and escalate control gaps in a timely manner
• Deliver targeted and actionable risk reporting across various leadership levels
• Serve as a functional liaison between the Business Line and second and third lines of defense

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience
• Typically, more than 10 years of applicable experience

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Advanced knowledge of applicable laws, regulations, financial services, and regulatory trends that impact their assigned line of business
• Advanced understanding of the business line's operations, products/services, systems, and associated risks/controls
• Thorough knowledge of Risk/Compliance/Audit competencies
• Strong management skills in processes, projects and people
• Excellent presentation, interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and negotiation skills
• Proficient computer skills, especially Microsoft Office applications
• Applicable professional certifications (e.g. CRISC, ITIL, CISSP, CGEIT, etc.)

Required Technical Knowledge

• Agile frameworks and product management practices
• Defining and mapping data-specific risks (misuse, poor quality, unauthorized access, lineage gaps, residency violations) to enterprise taxonomy
• Working knowledge of DCAM and DAMA-DMBOK and other industry data standards and frameworks; ability to operationalize frameworks into measurable controls and KRIs
• Practical control design for cloud data platforms (Snowflake/Databricks/Azure/AWS): RBAC/ABAC, data masking, tokenization, encryption, and key management
• Experience with data domain-based operating model and scalable data products
• Strong understanding of data governance (e.g., catalog, glossary, lineage, DQ rules & monitoring, DQ exceptions handling)

Hybrid/flexible schedule

The role offers a hybrid/flexible schedule, which means there's an in-office expectation of 3 or more days per week and the flexibility to work outside the office location for the other days.

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