AI Cyber Risk & Technology Vulnerability Program Lead

Charles Schwab; Southlake (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Schwab is seeking a strategic program leader to drive technology risk, cybersecurity, and transformation initiatives within the CTET space. You will coordinate governance, AI adoption, and enterprise transformation priorities across engineering, security, risk, and operations to translate complex findings into actionable remediation plans.

You will build alignment across stakeholders, manage competing priorities, and ensure timely remediation of vulnerabilities while supporting governance and

Qualifications

• 5–7 years of experience leading complex technology, cybersecurity, technology risk, resiliency, regulatory, or transformation programs across multiple teams and stakeholder groups.
• Experience establishing governance, reporting, prioritization, and accountability frameworks for vulnerability management and remediation programs.
• Proven ability to coordinate intake, validation, triage, assignment, tracking, and resolution of security findings through Jira or similar workflow management platforms.
• Experience partnering across application development, infrastructure, cybersecurity, risk, compliance, and operational teams to deliver enterprise‑scale initiatives and measurable business outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to manage risks, issues, dependencies, resource constraints, and executive‑level communications within large, complex programs.
• Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and critical‑thinking skills with the ability to assess technology risks and recommend practical remediation approaches.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate technical information into clear, concise updates for senior leadership.
• Proven ability to influence cross‑functional stakeholders, drive accountability, and achieve results in a highly matrixed environment.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain governance frameworks, reporting routines, dashboards, and portfolio‑level tracking to provide leaders with clear visibility into technology risk and support informed, risk‑based decision making.
• Drive the end‑to‑end coordination of vulnerability management activities, including intake, validation, prioritization, remediation planning, issue tracking, and executive communications.
• Oversee findings and remediation efforts across multiple security and testing channels, including AI‑driven application security findings, penetration testing, CodeQL, Black Duck, SAST/DAST, infrastructure configuration reviews, and patchable vulnerabilities.
• Partner with engineering, infrastructure, security, risk, and operational teams to ensure findings are actionable, appropriately prioritized, and addressed through effective remediation strategies.
• Develop reporting and governance processes that improve transparency, accountability, and visibility across the vulnerability lifecycle.
• Use analytical thinking, collaboration, and program management expertise to strengthen Schwab's technology environment, reduce risk exposure, and support continuous improvement initiatives.
• Help advance innovation and operational excellence by enabling consistent execution of technology risk, security, and transformation priorities.

Skills

Technology risk leadership

Governance frameworks

Strong analytical skills

Executive communications

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Jira

CodeQL

Black Duck

SAST/DAST

Veracode

Job description

Schwab is seeking a strategic program leader to drive technology risk, cybersecurity, and transformation initiatives within the CTET space. You will coordinate governance, AI adoption, and enterprise transformation priorities across engineering, security, risk, and operations to translate complex findings into actionable remediation plans.

You will build alignment across stakeholders, manage competing priorities, and ensure timely remediation of vulnerabilities while supporting governance and