Senior Associate, Technology Controls Testing - Enterprise Services Risk Operations

Senior Associate, Technology Controls Testing - Enterprise Services Risk Operations The Enterprise Services Risk Operations (ESRO) organization is expanding with a focus on attracting innovative, pioneering, collaborative, and highly skilled professionals. We operate at the forefront of risk management, providing support for novel and developing technologies, as well as critical business strategies. Diverse perspectives and experiences are valued as we work to redefine the financial sector.

As a Senior Associate in Capital One’s ESRO, you will apply your risk management skills to the company’s Technology organization. You will partner across Enterprise Services, Divisional CIO, and Information Security teams to develop and support best-in-class industry risk solutions in a manner that supports innovation and protects our customers, shareholders and associates. As a member of the 1st line controls testing team, you will collaborate with other 1st, 2nd, and 3rd line teams to monitor and test processes and control environments, report results, and evaluate compliance with cybersecurity requirements and regulations for the Technology organization.

Your contributions will drive insight into risk and control performance, and organizational change through risk identification, measurement, analysis and reporting to enable better management of technology risks in an open and collaborative environment.

The Technology Controls Testing Team, within ESRO’s Controls Governance and Testing (CGT) team, is seeking an experienced Technology Controls Testing specialist, with strong interest in process maturity, cybersecurity, identity and access management (IAM), and cloud technologies. A clear understanding of requirements, controls, and testing methodologies is necessary for this role. The ideal candidate will be able to design/execute test plans, identify process and control gaps, and compose clear and concise findings to document shortcomings.

In addition, the ability to clearly communicate results is imperative in this role. This will be an exciting role in a dynamic environment requiring the ability to multi-task and prioritize assignments appropriately. In this role, the associate will have the opportunity to learn new technologies, develop relationships with partners across technology divisions, and materially contribute to process enhancements to reduce risk.

** In this role, you will:
*** Apply expertise on cyber best practices to assess current state, identify gaps, and assess cyber risk, threats, and business impact
* Define mitigation strategies, prioritizes and escalates recommendations
* Perform independent control testing activities and document results
* Communicate findings to stakeholders
* Project manage assigned engagements to meet defined timelines
* Establish and maintain relationships during testing engagements
* Execute tasks assigned by manager to deliver on team objectives
* Collaborate with team members when necessary
* Possesses an understanding of technology systems at an aggregate level, including networks, applications, cloud computing, and data
* Demonstrates a broad understanding of major categories of cyber threats, how those threats can occur in our environment, and the measures required to safeguard the enterprise
* Understands associated reporting metrics and is able to inform on cyber risk
* Leverages tools [e.g. Excel/Google Sheets] to analyze data and create charts to support cyber risk management efforts
* Makes recommendations regarding changes to policies, procedures, and control programs to mitigate evolving risks
* Effectively self-challenges cyber control programs as part of first-line duties and escalates risks where appropriate
* Demonstrates sound lifecycle program management to include documenting and communicating action plans, impediments and risks, and stakeholder engagement
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* Basic Qualifications:

*** Bachelor's Degree or military experience
* At least 2 years of experience in technology (software delivery, distributed systems, cloud-native architecture, infrastructure as code), cybersecurity (identity and access management, application security, cloud security, data protection), technology auditing, systems risk management, technology risk assessments, resilience engineering (operational resilience, business continuity, disaster recovery, high availability), chaos engineering (fault injection, blast radius mitigation, automated security validation), site reliability engineering (SLAs/SLOs,…