Director, US Technology Risk Officer; TRO), First Line of Defense; 1B

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Requisition : 259631

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Purpose

The Director, U.S. Technology Risk Officer (CIO Risk Advisor) is a leadership role within the Technology First Line of Defense (1B) accountable for owning and strengthening technology risk management across the U.S. portfolio. The role provides embedded, credible risk leadership within technology to ensure material risks are identified early, assessed consistently, and managed within the Bank’s risk appetite, with clear governance, evidence, and accountability.

The Director serves as the primary technology risk advisor to the CIO, U.S. Global Banking & Markets Engineering (GBME) Technology, enabling decision making through transparent articulation of risk exposure, trade offs, control effectiveness, and residual risk. The role partners with technology executives, business leaders, and control functions to enable delivery of strategic outcomes while improving resiliency, reducing control weaknesses, and strengthening regulatory confidence.

The U.S. Technology Risk Office provides First Line ownership and accountability for technology risk management across key domains, including cybersecurity, data protection, software lifecycle management, platform resilience, incident and crisis management, disaster recovery, third party risk, technology change, and audit/regulatory remediation.

As a leader within the Technology First Line, the Director is responsible for establishing sound risk governance, scalable controls, and disciplined issue management routines aligned with regulatory expectations, enterprise risk appetite, and evolving business and technology strategies. The role also leads the first line US Technology Internal Control and Regulatory Management function for the engineering portfolio, ensuring timely risk identification, escalation, and remediation, and sustained compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and internal policies.

What You’ll Do

• Advise the CIO and senior technology leaders on material technology risks, control effectiveness, and risk based decision options that influence strategy, investment prioritization, and delivery outcomes.
• Identify, assess, and prioritize technology risks across cybersecurity, data protection, software delivery, platform resilience, incident and crisis management, disaster recovery, third party risk, and technology change.
• Own first line Technology governance, issue management, and remediation, driving timely and sustainable resolution of audit and regulatory findings and reducing repeat and thematic issues.
• Exercise escalation authority by raising material risks, control failures, and remediation slippage to appropriate senior leaders and governance forums, with clear recommendations and documented outcomes.
• Influence technology roadmaps and operating practices to remediate systemic control gaps and embed sustainable controls into engineering and operational processes (including SDLC and change management).
• Deliver executive level reporting (KPIs/KRIs) that provides transparency into risk posture, control health, and emerging risks for senior management and risk committees.
• Partner with Internal Audit and regulators to support audits and examinations, ensuring accurate, timely, and defensible responses to requests for information.
• Strengthen first line risk culture by building risk owner capability, reinforcing accountability, and enabling consistent risk decisioning across the portfolio.
• Improve the technology risk posture by driving and governing remediation to get to green, eliminating systemic control gaps, embedding sustainable controls, and delivering clear CIO level insight to support risk based decisions
• Lead GBME technology risk assessments, including control self assessments and…