Technology Risk Officer

bunq; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Digital Nomad Program

Learning budget

MacBook provided

Pension plan

Phone + Internet allowance

Travel budget after years

Urban Sports Club discount

Lunches with vegan options

Job summary

bunq is seeking a (Senior) Technology Risk Officer in Amsterdam to own resilience of essential ICT systems and validate controls beyond compliance. You will design continuous tests, automate evidence gathering, and coordinate remediation across engineering, product, and operations to keep bunq secure and scalable.

The role emphasizes hands-on testing, strong risk judgment, and close collaboration with stakeholders, with a culture of innovation and learning.

Qualifications

• Proven expertise in operational ICT resilience and incident prevention.
• Skills in automated control testing and monitoring.
• Deep knowledge of business continuity and resilience testing.
• Strong risk judgement and analytical capability.
• Experience challenging stakeholders and cross‑team collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Continuously test and challenge bunq's ICT infrastructure to surface weaknesses before they affect users, and automate testing and evidence collection.
• When incidents occur, analyze root causes and prioritize remediation.
• Lead business continuity and disaster recovery testing across tech, processes and suppliers.
• Coordinate with technical and business teams to drive remediation end‑to‑end, using AI to scale risk processes.

Skills

ICT resilience

Automated testing

Business continuity

Risk analytics

Stakeholder management

AI risk tools

Job description

At bunq, we're on a mission to Make Life Easy for our users by creating the most user-centric banking experience out there. To deliver on that promise, our services must be reliable 100% of the time.

That's where you come in. We're looking for a (Senior) Technology Risk Officer who takes ownership of making sure our ICT infrastructure can withstand and recover from disruption. As second line of defense, you'll test whether our controls actually work, not just whether they exist on paper, so weaknesses are found before they become incidents, protecting user's truth and letting bunq scale without operational risk growing alongside it.

Take Ownership

As a (Senior) Technology Risk Officer, you'll show bunq's excellence both inside and out by keeping our critical systems resilient and our controls effective. This role is yours to own, we'll show you the tools and the end goal, but how you get there is up to you. Here's how you'll do it:

• Continuously test and challenge bunq's ICT infrastructure to surface weaknesses before they affect our users, going beyond "are we compliant" to verify controls actually work, and use AI to automate testing, monitoring, and evidence collection at scale.
• When something goes wrong, dig into what really happened in the engineering process, interpret results to separate meaningful risk from noise, and prioritize remediation accordingly.
• Lead business continuity and disaster recovery testing, designing realistic drills for technology, business processes, and critical suppliers.
• Coordinate across technical and business teams, challenging control owners and driving weaknesses through to resolution, this role is yours to own end to end.

What are we looking for?

• You have deep knowledge of operational and ICT resilience, and you think like an engineer, you want to understand what actually happened in a system, not just whether a checkbox was ticked.
• You have proven skills in automated control testing and monitoring, and can design continuous tests and alerts that catch control failures early.
• You have deep expertise in business continuity and resilience testing, and can design realistic drills across technology, process, and supplier risk.
• You have strong risk judgement and analytical skills, and can prioritize remediation based on what actually matters.
• You have proven stakeholder management and challenge skills, comfortable pushing engineering teams directly and holding the line, and you're comfortable using AI to design and scale risk processes.

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Your space to perform

• We give you the space and the tools you need to succeed
• Great, international colleagues who share your mindset
• Digital Nomad Program: After your first year, enjoy up to 20 days per year to work while traveling, combining flexibility with strong team collaboration
• We reward tenure with a dedicated travel budget: €1.5k after 2 years and €3k after 4 years to visit another core office.
• We support growth with bunq Academy and €1500 annual learning budget
• Massive discount with Urban Sports Club
• Travel expenses are covered whether you come walking or by bike, bus or car (though we prefer green choices)
• A MacBook so you can Get Shit Done with us
• Delicious lunches from our fabulous in-house chefs with vegan and vegetarian options
• An optional pension plan with monthly contribution from bunq
• Monthly contribution to your phone and internet bills
• Friday drinks and other celebrations - bunq style

All new hires are subject to Pre-employment Screening (PES), which includes checks conducted by our third-party partner, Zinc. This is part of our commitment to a secure and trustworthy workplace.