Principal Technology Risk Engagement

AT&T; Alpharetta (GA); On-site; USD 155,000 - 233,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision coverage

401(k) plan

Tuition reimbursement program

Paid Time Off and Holidays

Paid Parental Leave

Disability Benefits

Life and AD&D Insurance

Employee discounts on AT&T products

Job summary

AT&T seeks a Principal Cybersecurity professional to drive complex risk remediation engagements across multiple technology domains. This onsite, full-time role is based in Alpharetta, GA.

Sponsorship is not offered. You will coordinate across security, governance, and operations to ensure evidence-based remediation, risk reduction, and executive reporting, while maintaining accountability and clear ownership throughout the remediation lifecycle.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in technology risk, cybersecurity, audit, governance, Experience leading complex cross-functional engagements in large enterprise environments.
• Strong program discipline, including commitment tracking, stakeholder management, action management, and executive reporting.
• Experience evaluating remediation plans, validating control effectiveness, and assessing residual risk.
• Proven ability to influence outcomes across organizations without direct authority.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex risk remediation engagements across multiple organizations and technology domains.
• Drive accountability, action tracking, decision management, stakeholder coordination, and follow-through.
• Validate remediation plans to ensure root causes and control gaps are addressed.
• Coordinate evidence readiness, control validation, and residual risk assessments.
• Identify blockers, ownership gaps, evidence deficiencies, and commitment drift.
• Orchestrate the actions, decisions, approvals, and assurance activities required to achieve validated risk reduction.
• Prepare executive-ready updates focused on risk posture, remediation progress, and residual risk.
• Escalate material issues that threaten successful remediation outcomes.
• Distinguish risk health from project health in all reporting and governance discussions.

Skills

Risk management

Cross-functional leadership

Executive reporting

Influence without authority

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Cybersecurity

Tools

Governance frameworks

Job description

This is a full-time onsite role based in the location(s) posted and is performed from the designated work location five days per week. No relocation is offered.

\"AT&T will not hire any applicants for this position who require employer sponsorship now or in the future.\"

Join AT&T and reimagine the communications and technologies that connect the world. Our Chief Security Office ensures that our assets are safeguarded through truthful transparency, enforce accountability and master cybersecurity to stay ahead of threats. Bring your bold ideas and fearless risk-taking to redefine connectivity and transform how the world shares stories and experiences that matter. When you step into a career with AT&T, you won’t just imagine the future-you’ll create it.

The Principal Technology Risk Engagement within the Technology Development, Operations & Resilience (TDOR) organization drives complex technology risk remediation efforts from validated risk identification through measurable risk reduction. This role coordinates across technology, security, operations, resilience, governance, and funding stakeholders to ensure commitments are clear, actions are tracked, evidence is validated, and risk outcomes are achieved.

Success in this role requires strong risk judgment, disciplined execution, exceptional attention to detail, and relentless follow-through. The role is responsible for driving engagement rigor, stakeholder alignment, remediation readiness, and risk-outcome integrity.

This is not a delivery ownership role. Technology owners remain accountable for implementation. This role ensures remediation efforts remain structured, accountable, evidence-based, and focused on risk reduction.

What You Will Do

• Lead complex risk remediation engagements across multiple organizations and technology domains.


• Drive accountability, action tracking, decision management, stakeholder coordination, and follow-through.


• Validate remediation plans to ensure root causes and control gaps are addressed.


• Coordinate evidence readiness, control validation, and residual risk assessments.


• Identify blockers, ownership gaps, evidence deficiencies, and commitment drift.


• Orchestrate the actions, decisions, approvals, and assurance activities required to achieve validated risk reduction.


• Prepare executive-ready updates focused on risk posture, remediation progress, and residual risk.


• Escalate material issues that threaten successful remediation outcomes.


• Distinguish risk health from project health in all reporting and governance discussions.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in technology risk, cybersecurity, audit, governance, Experience leading complex cross-functional engagements in large enterprise environments.


• Strong program discipline, including commitment tracking, stakeholder management, action management, and executive reporting.


• Experience evaluating remediation plans, validating control effectiveness, and assessing residual risk.


• Proven ability to influence outcomes across organizations without direct authority.


• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Cybersecurity


• Experience supporting large-scale technology remediation, audit response, resilience, lifecycle management, or risk reduction initiatives.


• Knowledge of NIST, COBIT, COSO, ITIL, ISO, ITAM, TLM, resilience, or related control frameworks.


• Certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CRISC, CGEIT, ITIL, PMP, or comparable technology risk credentials.


• Awareness of AI-driven risks(e.g., adversarial ML, data poisoning, model hallucination) and their mitigation within enterprise environments.

Our Principal Cybersecurity jobs earn between $155,400.00 - $233,200.00 USD Annual. Not to mention all the other amazing rewards that working at AT&T offers. Individual starting salary within this range may depend on geography, experience, expertise, and education/training.

Joining our team comes with amazing perks and benefits:

• Medical/Dental/Vision coverage


• 401(k) plan


• Tuition reimbursement program


• Paid Time Off and Holidays (based on date of hire, at least 23 days of vacation each year and 9 company-designated holidays)


• Paid Parental Leave


• Paid Caregiver Leave


• Additional sick leave beyond what state and local law require may be available but is unprotected


• Adoption Reimbursement


• Disability Benefits (short term and long term)


• Life and Accidental Death Insurance


• Supplemental benefit programs: critical illness/accident hospital indemnity/group legal


• Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)


• Extensive employee wellness programs


• Employee discounts up to 50% off on eligible AT&T mobility plans and accessories, AT&T internet (and fiber where available) and AT&T phone

Weekly Hours:

40

Time Type:

Regular

Location:

USA:GA:Alpharetta / 500 North Point Pkwy - Adm (owned):500 North Point Pkwy, USA:NC:Charlotte / Ibm Dr - Adm:8505 Ibm Dr, USA:TX:Dallas / Three AT&T Plaza (308 S Akard St) - Co:308 S Akard St

Salary Range:

$155,400.00 - $233,200.00

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