Senior Director, Tech Governance & Regulatory Strategy

Willis Towers Watson; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 204,000 - 231,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and Welfare Benefits

Leave Benefits

Retirement Benefits

Job summary

Willis Towers Watson seeks a senior leader to shape technology risk governance across the enterprise. You will own policy architecture, risk controls, and regulatory engagements, influencing senior technology leadership and external regulators.

The role offers exposure to global regulatory exams, a large-scale risk program, and opportunities to align technology governance with regulatory expectations in a major professional services firm.

Qualifications

• Direct experience managing regulator exami­nation relationships and regulatory inquiries.

Responsibilities

• Own technology and cybersecurity risk policy architecture and lifecycle.
• Define and maintain the control taxonomy, library, and standards.
• Manage exception processes with risk-based judgement.
• Serve as primary interface with regulators for exams and assessments.
• Maintain inventory of obligations across jurisdictions and ensure traceability to policies.
• Lead operating model definition for regulatory response and escalation paths.
• Foster cross-pillar collaboration across governance, controls, and risk operations.

Skills

Regulatory relationships

Global regulatory breadth

Policy & governance fluency

DORA/regulatory exposure

Cybersecurity regulation knowledge

Regulatory exam experience

Senior credibility

Cross-functional collaboration

Builder mindset

Job description

Willis Towers Watson seeks a senior leader to shape technology risk governance across the enterprise. You will own policy architecture, risk controls, and regulatory engagements, influencing senior technology leadership and external regulators.

The role offers exposure to global regulatory exams, a large-scale risk program, and opportunities to align technology governance with regulatory expectations in a major professional services firm.