Executive Director, Tech Risk & AI Oversight

JPMorganChase; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase in Plano, TX is seeking an Executive Director Technology Development Risk Lead to provide independent risk oversight of software delivery, including AI coding assistants, in a fast-paced banking environment. You will lead risk assessment, analytics, and governance across the engineering stack.

You will use Python and SQL to analyze engineering data, challenge first-line controls, and report to senior management and regulators.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Security, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 15 years of experience in technology risk, technology audit, software engineering, or application security within financial services.
• Hands-on software development experience in Python.
• Experience querying and analyzing data in SQL.
• Hands-on experience with the software delivery toolchain, including source control, continuous integration and delivery pipelines, and automated testing.
• Experience assessing or testing technology controls such as change management, access management, or secure software development.
• Experience with data visualization and reporting tools such as Tableau or AWS QuickSight.
• Experience presenting technology risk findings to senior management.
• Experience coaching or developing junior technical colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Perform independent risk assessments of the controls governing how software is planned, written, reviewed, tested, and released, using data-first approaches and advanced analytics.
• Challenge the first line on the control model applied to artificial intelligence coding assistants and agentic development tooling, covering human review of generated code, attribution of authorship, and the audit trail behind every change.
• Evaluate the entitlements and credentials granted to development tooling and autonomous agents, and whether access controls still hold when a machine rather than a person initiates a change.
• Assess whether observability and telemetry across the engineering estate is sufficient to detect data loss, misuse, and unexpected agent behaviour.
• Utilize Python and SQL to analyze large engineering data sets, and build dashboards and reports that make development risk visible to senior management.
• Define and test statistical hypotheses to identify thematic risks in software delivery from key risk indicator and key performance indicator performance.
• Develop and maintain the annual oversight plan for this domain, and report an independent view to senior management, control committees, internal audit, and regulators.
• Assess the prioritization and treatment of control findings, and monitor first line remediation to closure.
• Coach and develop junior data scientists and risk professionals, raising the analytical bar of the function.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data analysis

Risk management

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Tableau

AWS QuickSight

Splunk

Datadog

Dynatrace

Job description

JPMorgan Chase in Plano, TX is seeking an Executive Director Technology Development Risk Lead to provide independent risk oversight of software delivery, including AI coding assistants, in a fast-paced banking environment. You will lead risk assessment, analytics, and governance across the engineering stack.

You will use Python and SQL to analyze engineering data, challenge first-line controls, and report to senior management and regulators.