Senior Digital Risk Lead — Cloud, AI & Platforms

EY; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 213,000 - 443,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

Pension and 401(k)

Generous paid time off

Job summary

EY in San Francisco seeks a Senior Manager – Digital Risk to lead risk, compliance, and control transformation across cloud-native ecosystems. You will partner with CFOs, CTOs, and AI/ML teams to embed scalable, audit-ready frameworks into modern technology environments, enabling secure growth and regulatory compliance.

You will oversee end-to-end engagements, guiding technical risk areas and driving robust control design across DevOps, SDLC/PDLC, and distributed platforms while maintaining

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in business, accounting, computer science, engineering, or related field.
• Minimum of 8 years of experience in Digital Risk, IT risk, or technology consulting within the TMT sector.
• Strong hands-on experience in cloud platforms (AWS), microservices, DevOps/CI-CD, SDLC/PDLC, and distributed systems.
• Experience designing and assessing ITGCs and automated controls in modern environments.
• Experience leading risk assessments, control testing, and transformation initiatives in cloud-native ecosystems.
• Ability to translate regulatory requirements into engineering-aligned controls.
• Exposure to data platforms and AI-enabled development environments.
• Willingness to travel at least 50% and work extended hours; valid passport required.

Responsibilities

• Lead Digital Risk engagements across cloud platforms, microservices, and AI-enabled development environments, including risk assessments and control design.
• Serve as trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, delivering executive presentations and actionable recommendations.
• Drive engagement performance, budgeting, forecasting, staffing, delivery quality, and oversight of technical risk areas.
• Provide technical leadership as a subject matter expert on cloud, platform, and engineering risk.
• Design and evaluate controls across DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, SDLC/PDLC processes, and distributed platforms.

Skills

cloud-native architectures

distributed systems

modern engineering practices

AI-aware risk mindset

architecture fluency

engineering credibility

TMT industry knowledge

executive presence

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in related field

Tools

AWS

CI/CD

Job description

EY in San Francisco seeks a Senior Manager – Digital Risk to lead risk, compliance, and control transformation across cloud-native ecosystems. You will partner with CFOs, CTOs, and AI/ML teams to embed scalable, audit-ready frameworks into modern technology environments, enabling secure growth and regulatory compliance.

You will oversee end-to-end engagements, guiding technical risk areas and driving robust control design across DevOps, SDLC/PDLC, and distributed platforms while maintaining