Principal Tech Resiliency

Early Warning Services LLC; New York (NY); On-site; USD 221,000 - 276,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision coverage

401(k) plan with company match

Flexible paid time off

Paid parental leave

Support for fertility and adoption

Job summary

Early Warning Services LLC in New York is looking for a skilled risk management professional to oversee technology risk practices across various domains. Responsibilities include evaluating risk management activities, providing advisory support, and preparing reporting materials for governance forums. Candidates should possess a bachelor’s degree with at least 12 years of related experience, and strong communication and critical thinking skills.

The position offers a salary range of $221,000 – $276,000 with comprehensive benefits, including health coverage and paid parental leave.

Qualifications

• 12 years of experience in technology risk or related fields.
• Strong understanding of second-line oversight.
• Ability to assess control design and effectiveness.

Responsibilities

• Provide independent review of technology risk management.
• Evaluate risk management practices to ensure alignment.
• Challenge risk identification and assessment activities.

Skills

Risk management practices

Communication skills

Critical thinking

Problem-solving skills

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Job description

Responsibilities

• Provide independent review, oversight, and credible challenge of first‑line technology risk management activities, controls, and decisions across the company.
• Evaluate the design and execution of risk management practices to ensure alignment with enterprise frameworks, policies, regulatory expectations, and industry standards.
• Challenge risk identification and assessment activities, review and challenge risk and control self‑assessments, issues management, remediation plans, control validation outcomes, and key risk indicators.
• Assess adequacy of severity ratings, root cause analyses, action plans, and closure evidence for technology‑related issues and risk events.
• Identify risk trends, concentrations, and emerging themes through analysis of risk data, governance materials, and business changes; develop an independent view of risk exposure and control effectiveness.
• Prepare and support reporting, escalation, and discussion materials for senior leaders, governance forums, and risk committees.
• Partner with first‑line leaders, subject‑matter experts, and independent testing or validation teams to improve clarity of control expectations, testing scope, and evidence requirements.
• Provide ongoing risk advisory support while maintaining second‑line independence and accountability for effective challenge.
• Recommend opportunities to strengthen risk awareness, governance routines, and training that improve technology risk management maturity.
• Support the company’s commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.

Focus: Enterprise Technology and Information Security Risk

• Provide independent challenge and oversight of technology risk management practices across infrastructure, cloud, cybersecurity, product, and operational technology domains.
• Provide independent challenge and oversight of information security risk management practices across threat management, network, endpoint, cloud, architecture, data, access, AI, or application security domains.
• Assess alignment of technology risk and control activities with enterprise policies, risk frameworks, and applicable industry standards.
• Evaluate whether risk assessments, control inventories, issues management, and key risk indicators are executed consistently and effectively across the technology organization.
• Challenge risk identification activities related to significant technology changes, new products or capabilities, and cross‑functional initiatives.
• Assess risk trends and systemic themes across the technology environment and provide independent reporting and escalation as needed.

Minimum Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
• Typically 12 years of experience or demonstrated portfolio consistent with technology risk, information security, operational risk, or related disciplines within a regulated or otherwise complex operating environment.
• Strong understanding of risk management practices, control frameworks, and second‑line oversight within a three‑lines‑of‑defense model.
• Demonstrated experience providing independent review, challenge, or governance of first‑line technology, security, data, or operational risk activities.
• Strong ability to assess control design and effectiveness, synthesize risk data, identify themes, and translate technical issues into business risk.
• Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and stakeholder management skills, including experience interacting with senior leaders and cross‑functional partners.
• Strong critical thinking, judgment, and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to provide practical, risk‑based recommendations in a complex environment.
• Ability to operate independently, manage competing priorities, and maintain effective working relationships while preserving second‑line objectivity.
• Background and drug screen required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree or additional related education and/or experience.
• Experience in financial services, payments, fintech, or another highly regulated industry.
• Familiarity with relevant regulatory expectations and industry standards and frameworks applicable to technology and security risk management such as ISO 27002, PCI DSS, NIST, FFIEC, and SOC2.
• Experience supporting governance committees, audits, examinations, or regulatory interactions.
• Relevant risk, security, audit, or control certifications such as CISA, CISM, CISSP, CCSP, CRISC, GSNA, CGIH, or equivalent.
• Project or process management experience supporting cross‑functional risk, control, or governance initiatives.

Physical Requirements

Work is primarily sedentary and requires extensive use of a computer and involves sitting for periods of approximately four hours. Work may require occasional standing, walking, kneeling, and reaching. Must be able to lift 10 pounds occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently. Requires visual acuity and dexterity to view, prepare, and manipulate documents and office equipment including personal computers. Requires the ability to communicate with internal and/or external customers. Employee must be able to perform essential functions and physical requirements of position with or without reasonable accommodation.

Compensation

Base pay scale (USD per year):

• Phoenix, AZ / Chicago, IL / Washington, DC: $184,000 – $230,000
• New York, NY / San Francisco, CA: $221,000 – $276,000

Eligible for a discretionary incentive plan and benefits.

Benefits Overview

• Health, dental, and vision coverage with company contributions to Health Savings Account (HSA) or flexible spending accounts (FSA).
• 401(k) plan with 100% company safe harbor match on first 6% deferral.
• Paid time off: flexible time off for exempt employees, generous PTO for non‑exempt employees, 11 paid company holidays, and a paid volunteer day.
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Additional benefits include support for fertility, adoption, and early pediatric care.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Early Warning Services, LLC (“Early Warning”) considers for employment, hires, retains, and promotes qualified candidates on the basis of ability, potential, and valid qualifications without regard to race, faith, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, protected veteran or disability status, or any factor prohibited by law, and affirms policy and practice to support and promote equal employment opportunity and affirmative action in accordance with all applicable federal, state, and municipal laws. The company also prohibits discrimination on other bases such as medical condition, marital status or any other factor that is irrelevant to the performance of our employees.

Legal Notice

Early Warning Services, LLC is a participant in E‑Verify.