Technology Risk & Controls Manager for Public Cloud

The prime responsibilities of the Technology Risk & Controls (TRC) role is to identify, quantify and proactively address security issues and changes in the businesses risk profile. This role would be a high impacting role providing Technology Risk & Control services including assessing control effectiveness, actively working with the product teams to design by risk, enable responsible innovation, and assess residual risk. This role requires comprehensive understanding of Technology Risk and Controls, emerging risks, regulatory requirements and effective communication and interpersonal skills to work with the peer organizations including second and third line of defense. This role is required to closely follow the latest trends in risk management and adapt appropriately to our activities.
Operating within the Cloud Foundational Services product line, a part of Infra Platforms(IP), you will provide a pivotal role in ensuring our Public Cloud capabilities are operating safely and securely. You will manage the overall book of work for ensuring the compliance of our Public Cloud platform, facing off to regulators, auditors, and our Cybersecurity & Technology Control function. You will partner closely with both the product management and engineering functions to ensure the work is appropriately prioritized to ensure the technology landscape is operating within the risk appetite, and provide transparent reporting to senior management on the overall risk position of the product line.
Responsibilities:

• Document and monitor operational risk and control environment to identify existing and emerging operational risk and issues
• Evaluate and document issues related to changes in the risk environment and operational risk priorities
• Identify and aggregate thematic risk related to findings and trends (including risk from other products and hygiene) to address within product/LOB
• Assist product owner with identifying compensating controls for high severity risks
• Engage 2nd line of defense to discuss risk posture and to obtain non-objection when required
• Communicate heightened risk that is relevant to stakeholders and customers to ensure transparency and appropriate prioritization for remediation
• Understand legal obligations applicable to the product and how the processes and associated controls provide evidence of compliance
• Coordinate and monitor issue management to ensure timely and sustainable remediation and provide thematic analysis to identify trends
• Maintain Risk Assessment Structure (RAS) in CORE to accurately represent critical processes and drive the right accountability
• Partner with process owners to respond to internal and external audit and regulatory requests for information
• Assess and influence Technology Risk priorities within the book of work that are aligned to control design in the LOB/product roadmap
• Educate and advise on the process from permit to build to permit to operate

Preferred Experience:

• Proficient experience in technology and Operational Risk including Cyber Risk
• Strong experience in various Technology and Cyber domains, for e.g., Architecture, Vulnerability Management, Cloud, etc.
• Risk management expertise in AWS services is a big plus
• Relevant industry certifications are preferable
• Ability to work with data from disparate sources to build a cohesive view on risk
• Experience working in regulated industries, in particular leveraging technology standards, frameworks, compliance, and industry recognized best practice/standards (e.g., ITIL, NIST, ISO, PCI, SOC)
• Collaboration with internal and external technology audits (3 rd Line of Defense), CCOR Operational Risk Management deep dives and testing (2 nd Line of Defense), and the ability to advocate on behalf of subject matter experts
• Advanced level in Office 365 with proficiency combining data sources in Excel
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with ability to effectively communicate and present security risk concepts with business and technology partners.
• Preferable experience working in regulated industries, in particular leveraging technology standards, frameworks, compliance, and industry recognized best practice / standards (e.g. NIST, ISO, PCI, SOC)