Tech Risk Assurance Lead

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Christchurch; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. seeks a Tech Risk Lead to strengthen risk posture across Global Technology and IEM domains.

You will identify risks, design mitigating controls, and partner with cross-functional teams to implement improvements that promote best practices and regulatory compliance. Lead analytics-driven assurance, govern control effectiveness, and leverage AI capabilities to accelerate risk evidence synthesis and reporting for senior executives.

Qualifications

• Experience with technology systems and cyber/technology risk management activities, including control effectiveness assessments, reporting, and mitigation tracking.
• Demonstrated expertise in regulatory compliance, risk management frameworks, and industry best practices (NIST, ISO, FFIEC, GDPR).
• Technical proficiency in AI risk governance and data security, securing platforms, applications, and business processes with AI threats understanding.
• Experience using enterprise-authorized AI capabilities to support risk/workflows — validating AI outputs and ensuring security and auditability.
• Experience applying data analytics and data-driven approaches to risk identification, control testing, and assurance.
• Ability to influence executive-level strategic decision-making and translate technology insights into business strategy.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain technology control requirements with stakeholders, ensuring clear outcomes and measurable expectations.
• Apply technology risk and control expertise in Change Management, Incident Management, and Event Management.
• Develop relationships with key stakeholders to enable cross-functional collaboration and progress toward shared goals.
• Prepare detailed risk assessment reports and documentation, supporting findings formalization and closure.
• Govern governance of control effectiveness, identify gaps, and recommend enhancements to strengthen risk posture.
• Develop analytics-driven assurance approaches for risk identification, prioritization, and control assessments.
• Use AI capabilities to accelerate synthesis of risk evidence and draft executive-ready reporting, ensuring security compliance.

Skills

Technology risk management

Regulatory compliance frameworks

AI risk governance

Data analytics in risk

Executive-level influence

Education

CRISC certification or equivalent

Tools

LLMs

GitHub Copilot

Job description

As a Tech Risk Lead within the CTC Standard and Control Design team atJPMorganChase, you will support compliance and promote best practicesacross Global Technology (GT)within theTechnology Operations (TO)andIncident & Event Management (IEM)domains. You will leverage your technology risk and controls expertise and prior working knowledge to identify and assess technology risks, design or enhance mitigating controls, and partner with cross-product and functional teams to implement improvements that strengthen the firm’s risk posture.

Job Responsibilities

• Define and maintain technology control requirements in partnership with stakeholders, ensuring clear outcomes, scope, and measurable expectations.
• Apply technology risk and control expertise in one or more of the following areas:Change Management, Incident Management, and Event Management,
• Develop and maintain robust relationships, becoming a trusted partner with key stakeholders such as LOB BISOs, assessment teams, andLOB product leads, to facilitate cross-functional collaboration and progress toward shared goals.
• Prepare detailed reports and documentation of risk assessments, findings, and recommendations, ensuring accuracy and accessibility, and support findings formalization and tracking to closure.
• Proactively govern, monitor and evaluate control effectiveness, identify gaps, and recommend enhancements to strengthen risk posture and regulatory compliance.
• Develop and advance analytics-driven assurance approaches for risk identification, risk prioritization, mitigation planning, and control assessments.
• Use enterprise-authorized AI capabilities to accelerate synthesis of risk/control evidence and draft executive-ready reporting, validating outputs and handling data according to sensitivity and security requirements.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience or equivalent expertise with technology systems and cyber/technology risk management activities, including control effectiveness assessments, reporting, and mitigation tracking, with the ability to translate technical findings into clear business impacts.
• Demonstrated expertise in regulatory compliance, risk management frameworks, and industry best practices (for example, NIST, ISO, FFIEC, GDPR)
• Technical proficiency in AI risk governance and data security, securing platforms, applications, and business processes with understanding of AI threats, mitigations, and defence mechanisms.
• Demonstrated experience using enterprise-authorized AI capabilities to support technology risk and controls workflows — validating AI-assisted summaries and recommendations before use, escalating when uncertain, and ensuring alignment to security, auditability, data sensitivity, and regulatory expectations.
• Experience applying data analytics and data-driven approaches to risk identification, control testing, and assurance.
• Demonstrated ability to influence executive-level strategic decision-making and translate technology insights into business strategy for senior executives.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

• CRISC certification or equivalent risk/control certification.
• Experience with AI both from a risk perspective and as a user of AI tools, such as LLMs and GitHub Copilot.