Data, AI and Emerging Technology Risk Principal Analyst

Within Enterprise Technology & Security (ETS), the Data, AI and Emerging Technology Risk Principal Analyst drives the strategic identification, assessment, and mitigation of technology-related risks, playing a key role in safeguarding the organization's information assets. This senior individual contributor position operates with significant autonomy, working across technology and business teams to shape risk practices, advance control effectiveness, and ensure alignment with Cybersecurity Risk Institute (CRI) Profile, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, NIST 800-53, and other applicable frameworks.

The Principal Analyst serves as a subject matter expert whose insights directly influence the bank's technology risk posture and risk management strategy. Principal Risk Analysts solve complex problems, take broad perspectives to solve problems innovatively and may lead projects with moderate resource requirements, risk and/or complexity. Cross‑functional leadership and development across junior contributors are a key feature of this senior role.

• Lead the proactive identification, assessment, and monitoring of technology and cybersecurity risks across systems, applications, infrastructure, and services, applying industry‑recognized frameworks such as CRI, NIST CSF and NIST 800‑53.
• Execute and oversee complex Risk and Control Self Assessments (RCSAs), risk assessments, targeted risk reviews, and control adequacy evaluations, providing challenge and expert recommendations on risk treatment and remediation strategies.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for technology risk during internal audits, regulatory examinations, and supervisory inquiries, leading issue analysis, response development, and corrective action execution.
• Analyze and synthesize risk and security data from enterprise platforms and monitoring tools to identify systemic trends, emerging risks, and control gaps, translating findings into strategic insights for leadership.
• Partner closely with senior technology, engineering, cybersecurity, compliance, and business leaders to evaluate risk associated with new and existing platforms, infrastructure, and initiatives.
• Oversee third‑party technology risk activities for high‑risk or complex service provider relationships within assigned domains.
• Develop and deliver clear, executive‑level risk reporting and presentations, effectively communicating risk posture, trends, and remediation priorities to senior management and governance forums.
• Contribute to the continuous enhancement of risk frameworks, methodologies, policies, and governance processes to strengthen overall risk maturity.
• Mentor and coach analysts at varying levels, fostering strong risk judgment, analytical rigor, and a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
• Stay ahead of evolving regulatory requirements, emerging threats, and industry trends, proactively advising leadership on risk impacts and control enhancements.
• Champion initiatives that strengthen the organization’s risk posture and promote a proactive, risk‑aware culture across the enterprise.

• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Experience with analytics platforms, storage solutions, data protection methodologies, data platforms, ETL, data transmission, data loss prevention, endpoint security practices, and cyber recovery practices, e.g. Tableau, Webfocus, APIs and Microservices based development, Talend, Informatica, Kafka, Spark, Autosys, Airflow, Java, Hadoop, Redshift, Starburst, Databricks, Tessell, Mongo Atlas, Snowflake, OCI, AWS RDS, etc.
• Proficiency with data governance, security and other telemetry tools such as Collibra, Grafana, Datadog, Qualys, Wiz, Cyber Ark, or Splunk
• Experience with continuous integration, continuous delivery, agile and devsecops pipelines, including data engineering sub‑pipelines and related tools (e.g. Nexus, Jenkins, Harness, Fortify, EKS, Openshift, etc.)
• Knowledge of AI/ML platform tools such as Bedrock, Sagemaker, H2O.ai, MLflow, etc.

• Service Now, Jira, Confluence, or other ITSM/collaboration platforms
• GRC Archer, WDesk,…