Senior Director, Technology Compliance & Regulatory Engagement

021 SEI Investments Company; Oaks (PA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

SEI is seeking a Senior Director to lead Technology Regulatory Compliance across the enterprise. This executive will report to the Global Chief Compliance Officer and oversee IT risk, compliance, and technology-focused audits, communicating risk in regulator-ready terms.

The role shapes SEI's technology risk narrative across jurisdictions, guiding policy and governance while supporting modernization initiatives, including AI governance and regulatory engagement.

Responsibilities

• Regulatory & Examination Leadership: Serve as the primary point of contact and owner for FFIEC examinations.
• Technology Risk & Compliance Oversight: Oversee technology risk assessments and remediation strategies.
• Strategic Advisory & Governance: Partner with senior leaders as a strategic advisor on regulatory expectations and horizon scanning.
• Leadership & Collaboration: Lead cross-functional efforts across Technology, Risk, Legal, and Compliance.

Job description

SEI is seeking a Senior Director to lead Technology Regulatory Compliance across the enterprise. This role will report directly to the Global Chief Compliance Officer and serves as the accountable executive for technology risk and compliance matters, including related regulatory engagement, most notably with the FFIEC, and provides global oversight of IT risk, compliance, and technology-focused audits. This executive will act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, regulators, and boards, ensuring the policies, procedures and controls related to SEI’s technology development, deployment and environment meet applicable regulatory expectations and are clearly understood, well-positioned, and defensible in regulatory examinations. A core expectation of this role is the ability to shape, package, and communicate SEI’s technology risk story in alignment with regulatory expectations in multiple jurisdictions, while supporting modernization and innovation initiatives, including the use and deployment of artificial intelligence internally and externally.

What You Will Do:

Regulatory & Examination Leadership

• Serve as the primary point of contact and owner for FFIEC examinations.
• Provide oversight of any technology-related subsidiary examinations.
• Lead end-to-end exam management, including exam scoping, response strategy, evidence orchestration, examiner communications, and issue resolution.
• Frame and present SEI’s technology risk, control environment, and maturity in a manner that aligns to examiner focus areas and supervisory priorities, not just individual controls.
• Interpret applicable technology, cybersecurity, and data-related regulatory requirements and provide clear, regulator-ready SEI positions and messaging to the applicable regulator.

Technology Risk & Compliance Oversight

• Oversee technology risk assessments, identifying control gaps, compliance risks, and emerging vulnerabilities.
• Drive remediation strategies and ensure outcomes are sustainable, auditable, and defensible under regulatory scrutiny.
• Collaborate with the relevant internal stakeholders to establish and evolve technology compliance policies, standards, controls and governance aligned to meet applicable regulatory expectations.
• Support internal and external technology audits and second-line risk assessments, ensuring consistency of messaging across exams, audits, and management reporting.
• Provide concise, executive-level reporting to senior management and boards that clearly articulates risk posture, trends, and regulatory implications.

Strategic Advisory & Governance

• Partner with senior leaders across Technology, Risk, Legal, and Compliance as a strategic advisor on regulatory expectations, supervisory risk themes, as well as horizon scanning for potential emerging risks and working with the relevant internal stakeholders to design appropriate mitigation strategies.
• Guide the responsible integration of data, analytics, automation, and AI within compliance and risk operations, ensuring that regulatory expectations are met and solutions remain regulator-ready and explainable.

Leadership & Collaboration

• Lead cross-functional efforts across Technology, Operations, Information Security, Audit, and Com…