Senior Lead, Third-Party Risk Governance & Framework

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC); Tampa (FL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plan

Paid time off

Hybrid work model

Job summary

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) in Tampa, FL is seeking an Associate Director to lead Third Party Risk Governance within Operational Risk & Resilience. You will shape the design, governance, and enhancements of the Third Party Risk framework across policies, standards, and lifecycle requirements.

You will collaborate with Compliance, Legal, Internal Audit, TPM, and business partners to implement regulatory-aligned governance and remediation efforts, strengthening risk culture

Qualifications

• 8-10 years of experience in Third Party Risk Management, Operational Risk, Enterprise Risk Management, Compliance, Regulatory Affairs, or related disciplines.
• Strong understanding of Third Party Risk frameworks, cyber, resiliency, compliance, privacy, governance models, lifecycle requirements, and regulatory expectations.
• Experience developing or enhancing policies, standards, controls, and risk frameworks in highly regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Maintain Third Party Risk policies, standards, procedures, methodologies, controls, and governance documentation.
• Define risk-based lifecycle requirements across third-party identification, assessment, management, monitoring, contingency planning, and termination.
• Drive framework enhancements and work with 1LoD TPM to improve program effectiveness, training, regulatory alignment, and responsiveness to emerging risks.
• Maintain risk taxonomies, risk categories, classification criteria, tiering standards, and criticality methodologies.
• Promote consistent application of segmentation, assessment, monitoring, oversight, and reporting standards across the enterprise.
• Integrate Third Party Risk expectations into enterprise risk processes, including RCSAs, CPRAs, risk scenarios, control expectations, and assessment methodologies.
• Maintain awareness of applicable regulatory expectations and translate changes into policy, standards, control, and governance enhancements.
• Partner with Compliance, Legal, Internal Audit, TPM, and business stakeholders to support regulatory examinations, remediation activities, and ongoing supervisory readiness.
• Establish governance requirements for critical third parties, including enhanced due diligence, ongoing monitoring, resilience, contingency planning, and exit strategies.
• Partner with Business Continuity and Operational Resilience teams to embed third-party resilience and dependency considerations into lifecycle and governance decisions.
• Establish enterprise requirements for specialized third-party risk areas, including third party provider types (e.g. technology, market data, staff augmentation, exchange and trading venues, financial market infrastructure, clearing brokers).
• Define governance controls for onboarding, access, tenure, concentration risk, privileged access, role dependency, supervisor accountability, and regulatory compliance.

Skills

Risk governance

Regulatory knowledge

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

Experience

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) in Tampa, FL is seeking an Associate Director to lead Third Party Risk Governance within Operational Risk & Resilience. You will shape the design, governance, and enhancements of the Third Party Risk framework across policies, standards, and lifecycle requirements.

You will collaborate with Compliance, Legal, Internal Audit, TPM, and business partners to implement regulatory-aligned governance and remediation efforts, strengthening risk culture