Cyber Tech and Product Risk Director - Cyber Tech

Capital One; Illinois; On-site; USD 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Cyber Tech and Product Risk Director to lead risk management initiatives within their Technology organization. In this pivotal role, you will leverage your extensive experience in cybersecurity and risk management to develop innovative solutions that protect customers and drive strategic change. Collaborating with diverse teams, you will implement best-in-class risk frameworks and provide advisory services to enhance the organization's risk posture. This opportunity not only offers exposure to senior executives but also allows you to influence key technology risks and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement. If you are passionate about technology risk and eager to make a significant impact, this role is for you.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in Cybersecurity or IT audits with strong risk management skills.
• Experience in data management and analysis in cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead Cyber Tech risk initiatives and support process improvements.
• Consult on technology risks and develop risk management strategies.

Skills

Cybersecurity

Risk Management

Data Analysis

Problem-Solving

Communication Skills

Analytical Skills

Education

Bachelor’s Degree or military experience

Tools

AWS

G Suite / Google Workspace

Jenkins

Kubernetes

Job description

Cyber Tech and Product Risk Director - Cyber Tech

As a Technology Risk Director supporting Cyber in Capital One’s Tech and Product Risk Office, you will apply your risk management, cyber, and technical expertise to the company’s Technology organization.

You will partner across Enterprise Services, Divisional CIOs, and Information Security teams to develop and support best-in-class industry risk solutions in a manner that supports innovation and protects our customers, shareholders, and associates.

You will collaborate with second lines of defense to lead and implement risk and control tools, techniques, and frameworks for the Technology organization, as well as provide direct tech risk advisory services into our first line Tech organization supporting our continuous focus on Cyber Technology processes and roadmap.

This includes working closely as an individual contributor with Cyber Product, Architecture and Strategy, and with our Tech partners as the Tech Risk Cyber connection for Network and Cloud Platform Security. Your contributions will drive organizational and strategic change through risk identification, measurement, analysis, and reporting in order to better manage the company’s risk in an open and collaborative environment.

Technology Risk Directors are experienced and progressive individuals that operate within a highly collaborative team environment to deliver value-added risk management services to our Technology savvy business partners. You will have a high level of exposure across lines of business and have the opportunity to work with senior Cyber Executives to create and implement innovative solutions to identify and mitigate potential risks to the Company. Proficiency in risk management program (ideally Technology risk-driven program) development and management are key to success in this role. The successful candidate will be an experienced risk management professional who understands cyber technology functions and organizations, with strong technical, analytical, planning, strategic thinking, organizational, and communication skills.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the Technology Risk Guide leader and partner for the Cyber Tech team within our Cyber organization leveraging a trusted advisor model to support Cyber initiatives, issue management, process improvement, control testing and related risk assessment activities.
• Assist Tech and Product Risk leadership in delivering against their strategy and services.
• Develop a deep understanding of business strategies, products, technology, services, and risk profile.
• Help resolve the large thorny issues, and concerns, and develop plans to proactively manage emerging risks and regulatory focus areas.
• Consult on risks across the first line of defense business and technology partners providing advice and guidance as needed.
• Identify and implement continual program enhancements based on industry standards and best practices related to risk management (especially technology risk) and aligned with Capital One’s strategic risk direction.
• Build successful relationships within Cyber Tech and Product teams, along with the developer community to understand the impact of technology risk on development and release practices.
• Collaborative, values diverse perspectives and seeks insights from others.
• Influence leaders within Cyber, second line risk organizations, the cyber community, and Internal Audit on key technology risks and actions needed.
• Understand, document, and analyze current state capabilities leveraging one or more risk methods. Leverage industry benchmarking to determine best practices and lessons learned regarding components of the risk framework.
• Conduct periodic risk reviews with the executives and support reporting for technology risk metrics.
• Develop risk analysis, perform deep dive investigations, and drive specific risk initiatives to minimize risk posture and strengthen overall control suite effectiveness.
• Implement process improvements: process certification framework, process hierarchy change management, change control, and risk reporting.
• Communicate complex ideas concisely and convincingly; adjust communication to the audience; comfortable with presenting to executive leadership.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree or military experience.
• At least 8 years experience in Cybersecurity, Technology, or Cyber Internal or External Audit, or a combination.
• At least 8 years of experience planning and leading IT audits or risk assessments.
• At least 5 years of People Management experience.
• At least 5 years of experience in data management and performing data analysis in support of cybersecurity assessments and control design in a cloud environment (preferably AWS).

Preferred Qualifications:

• 12+ years experience in Cybersecurity, Technology, or Cyber Internal or External Audit, or a combination.
• 10+ years of experience in performing Control Self Assessments (CSAs), or completing assessments against established industry risk frameworks, including the NIST Cybersecurity Framework.
• 10+ years experience performing data analysis in support of internal risk assessments and control reviews.
• 8+ years of CI/CD, DevOps, SDLC framework experience.
• 3+ years of Financial Services industry experience.
• Cybersecurity, technology risk, and technology specific certifications such as Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), AWS Security certification, Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), AWS DevOps certification.
• Excellent verbal presentation and written communication skills to confidently interact with the cyber organization and enterprise stakeholders.
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and critical thinking skills to effectively respond to shifting priorities, demands, and timelines.
• Consulting experience with a Big 4 firm is a plus.
• Experience deploying, configuring, and performing risk assessments of industry leading CI/CD tools and supporting technologies (e.g., Jenkins, Artifactory/jfrog, kubernetes, etc.) is a plus.
• DevOps experience is a plus.
• Proficient with G Suite / Google Workspace for reports, analysis, and presentations is a plus.

At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days. No agencies please. Capital One is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), race, color, age, national origin, religion, disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender reassignment, citizenship, immigration status, protected veteran status, or any other basis prohibited under applicable federal, state or local law.