Risk Response Activation & Assurance Lead (Data/Tech)

AT&T; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

AT&T is seeking a Principal Risk Response Activation & Assurance Lead to drive risk activation across Data, Technology, and Workforce Management Risk. This individual contributor role translates validated risks into remediation plans, ensures evidence and gates are satisfied, and reports residual risk to leadership.

You will strengthen governance, improve issue resolution quality, reduce control failures, and enable efficient risk remediation across critical data, workforce, and consumer

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Cybersecurity.
• 7+ years of related experience in risk, cybersecurity or data governance.
• Experience in remediation of cybersecurity, data governance, or operational risks.
• Knowledge of data governance, data quality, access/entitlement management, and assurance practices.
• Ability to lead remediation initiatives and influence stakeholders across multiple domains.
• Familiarity with AI/ML techniques in cybersecurity contexts.

Responsibilities

• Activate validated data and workforce-related risks into structured remediation or formal acceptance pathways, ensuring rigor in data governance, data quality, entitlements, and workforce control remediation plans.
• Serves as the control-layer function for risk activation across data lifecycle controls and workforce management-related processes, validating evidence, enforcing assurance gates, and maintaining clear residual risk posture.
• Convert validated data and workforce risks into proper remediation, compensating control, or acceptance routes.
• Ensuring response pathways align to data governance, data quality, access/entitlement, or workforce control gaps.

Skills

Cybersecurity

Data governance

Risk management

Stakeholder influence

Communication

Education

Bachelors degree in Computer Science or Cybersecurity

Job description

AT&T is seeking a Principal Risk Response Activation & Assurance Lead to drive risk activation across Data, Technology, and Workforce Management Risk. This individual contributor role translates validated risks into remediation plans, ensures evidence and gates are satisfied, and reports residual risk to leadership.

You will strengthen governance, improve issue resolution quality, reduce control failures, and enable efficient risk remediation across critical data, workforce, and consumer