Tech Risk and Controls Director - Audit

JOB DESCRIPTION

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 Technology Risk and Controls Lead within our Cloud Foundational Services Function, you will be passionate about operational risk management and control solutions for computing environments. You will partner with one or more disciplines, lines of business, regions and locations to respond to evolving business requirements and emerging threats. You will leverage your expert knowledge of today’s ever-changing technology risk landscape and controls environment to advise and support IT operations across the firm.

You will partner with process owners to respond to internal and external audit and regulatory requests for information, while ensuring senior stakeholders are kept updated on the risk posture for the organization. You will report directly to the Technology, Risk & Controls Portfolio Lead and will be responsible for a small team.

Lead the strategic development and implementation of technology risk management in a dynamic, evolving tech landscape. Cloud Technology Risk & Controls Lead (Executive Director) who helps teams run cloud services safely and reliably. You’ll work with partners across the firm to spot new risks, strengthen day‑to‑day controls, and keep leaders informed on overall risk health. You’ll also coordinate responses to audits and regulatory requests, and guide IT teams on security, resiliency, and high‑availability design.

The role covers key areas like access management, incident response, vulnerability management, and data protection, with a strong understanding of public cloud environments.

• 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
• Sets reuse‑first expectations for enterprise‑authorized AI adoption within the work environment across technology risk and controls operations to accelerate evidence synthesis, issue analysis, and executive reporting, with human‑in‑the‑loop validation and appropriate handling of sensitive data.
• Identify and upscale 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
• Establishes governance standards for AI‑assisted workflows used in risk reporting and issue/action‑plan management, ensuring traceability/auditability and alignment to security, resiliency, and regulatory expectations. Operational risk management subject matter expert.
• Direct oversight and management of Audits for Cloud Foundational Services.
• Supports and advises process ownersinmanaging operational risk and provides transparency to stakeholders.
• Ensures alignment with regulatory and firmwide control obligations and industry standards. Audit engagement and response management.

• Significant experience or equivalent expertise in technology risk management, information security, or a related field, with a focus on managing risk identification, assessment, and mitigation
• Demonstrated experience leading safe adoption of enterprise‑authorized AI capabilities within the work environment within technology risk and controls workflows, including validation practices and awareness of data sensitivity.
• Ability to define…