Senior Manager, Tech Risk & Analysis - Strategic Tech Risk Advisor

Capital One; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 183,000 - 208,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One in Plano, TX is seeking a Senior Manager, Tech Risk & Analysis to partner with senior technology leaders. You will design and govern AI-enabled risk programs, lead risk assessments for large-scale architecture changes, and drive governance across platforms and cloud services.

You will influence enterprise policies, report to executive leadership, and coordinate with Engineering, Data Science, Legal and Compliance to strengthen the company’s technology risk posture.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or military experience.
• 7+ years in technology engineering, architecture, or risk management.
• Master’s Degree in IT or Cybersecurity preferred.
• 8+ years in Risk Management in Tech/Cyber/InfoSec preferred.
• Cloud experience with AWS/GCP/Azure.
• Professional security or risk management certifications.

Responsibilities

• Act as Strategic Risk partner for senior technology executives.
• Assess security, reliability, and resilience of platforms.
• Lead risk assessments for large-scale tech changes.
• Develop risk strategy and lifecycle management for technologies in scope.
• Synthesize risk profiles for executives and Board Committees.
• Influence enterprise policies and controls across teams.

Skills

Tech risk leadership

Risk assessment

Cloud computing

Stakeholder engagement

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree or military experience

Master’s degree in IT or Cybersecurity

Certifications (CISSP/CISA/CRISC/Open FAIR)

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Senior Manager, Tech Risk & Analysis - Strategic Tech Risk Advisor

As a Sr. Manager, Technology Risk Advisor in the Financial Services Risk Office, you will be a strategic risk partner to business leaders and senior technology executives, directly shaping our technology risk posture. This is a high-impact leadership role where you will be on the front lines of technology innovation, specifically responsible for designing and governing the responsible implementation of AI, risk assessment for integration of acquired company technology, and other large scale architecture transformation programs. You will leverage your analytical and risk management expertise to drive meaningful outcomes, influence corporate policies and standards, and ensure the resilience of our enterprise technology. In this role, you will lean into your technology engineering/architecture, risk management, analytical and problem solving skills by identifying and deploying innovative solutions to mitigate risks to the Company, You will thrive in a cross-functional and collaborative environment that values unique perspectives, rewards innovation, and challenges the status quo. As an integral member of the team, you will have a high level of exposure across the division and partner closely with senior technology, business and risk office leaders, technology, compliance, legal, and operational risk.

Summary: Applies expertise on tech and cyber best practices to assess current state, identify gaps, and assess tech and cyber risk, threats, and business impact. Defines mitigation strategies, prioritizes and escalates recommendations. Participates in design and implementation of cyber control programs. Cybersecurity area-specific SME [knowledge of risk frameworks, information security risk assessments, information risk controls, regulatory and internal governance], data analysis [metrics and reporting], and customer engagement.

Responsibilities

• Act as the Strategic Risk partner, providing end-to-end tech and cyber risk advice and partnership for senior technology executives, providing comprehensive support to engineering organizations while driving the strategic vision for risk assessment and management programs.
• Understand platform & infrastructure Risk with an ability to assess the security, reliability, and resilience of the underlying technical platforms (including potential multi-cloud GPU orchestration, API gateways, third-party model providers, SaaS integrations, generative AI solutions, and open-source model pipelines).
• Maintains a broad understanding of relevant operating systems and their respective vulnerabilities in order to quickly identify the severity of potential issues [doesn't just know how the tools and reports work, but also how to recognize risk].
• Leads technology risk assessments of large scale technology change initiatives to ensure all of the risks and potential areas of non compliance are identified, documented, and planned for appropriate remediation.
• Develops risk strategy and lifecycle risk management for technologies in scope.
• Quickly and accurately analyzes data, assesses risk, and prioritizes published threats and potential risks to differentiate critical, high-risk, and low-risk issues, and escalates as appropriate.
• Develops executive advisory & reporting: ability to synthesize complex technical risk profiles, model performance issues, and mitigation progress into strategic insights for executives, Board Risk Committees, and senior leadership.
• Rationalize tech and cyber controls to align with technology processes, influencing updates to enterprise policies, standards, and control descriptions to proactively remediate exceptions.
• Demonstrates cross-functional influence & engagement: partner seamlessly across Engineering, Data Science, Cyber Security, Legal, Compliance, and other Risk disciplines.
• Researches, assembles, and/or evaluates information regarding industry practices or applicable regulatory changes; recommends sound, practical solutions to complex issues.
• Ability to deep-dive into Gen AI system architectures—evaluating risks specific to LLMs/SLMs, model fine-tuning, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), vector databases, prompt injection, hallucination rate thresholds, model drift, IP infringement, and training data privacy.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or military experience
• At least 7 years of experience in technology engineering, technology architecture, or technology risk management or a combination.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Information Technology or Cybersecurity
• 8+ years of Risk Management experience in Technology, Cyber or Information Security practice
• 8+ years of experience in cloud computing (examples include: AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• 8+ years of experience in a second-line or oversight role at a financial institution or regulatory agency
• Professional Security Certification or Professional Risk Management Certification
  • Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
  • Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)
  • Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC)
  • Open FAIR Certified

Visa & Eligibility

At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization, or offer any immigration related support for this position (e.g. H1B, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, F-1 CPT, J-1, TN, E-3, and O-1, or any other forms of work authorization that require immigration support from an employer).

Salary

Plano, TX: $182,500 - $208,300 for Sr. Manager, Tech Risk & Analysis Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate’s offer letter.

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level. This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days. No agencies please.

Equal Opportunity & Diversity

Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non-discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace.

Criminal Background

Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections 4901-4920; New York City’s Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia’s Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.

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Global Information

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Company Mission

At Capital One, we’re building a leading information-based technology company. Still founder-led by Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Richard Fairbank, Capital One is on a mission to help our customers succeed by bringing ingenuity, simplicity, and humanity to banking. We measure our efforts by the success our customers enjoy and the advocacy they exhibit.