Technology Risk

Goldman Sachs Bank AG; Dallas, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Goldman Sachs Bank AG in Dallas, TX is seeking a Vice President to lead Technology Risk - Control Enablement and Transformation. You will oversee security controls, develop and govern the control management framework, and partner with engineering and risk teams to strengthen risk posture across all systems.

The role requires deep knowledge of security control design, regulatory requirements, and advanced cloud security practices, with the ability to translate complex risk into clear, actionable

Qualifications

• Hands-on security controls experience evaluating design and operating effectiveness.
• Experience creating policies and procedures per global IT management standards.
• Strong understanding of enterprise tech concepts including cloud, IAM, microservices, APIs, containers, and CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Oversee security risks and controls as part of the first line of defense across engineering products.
• Develop and enhance the control management framework, standards and guidelines.
• Improve control designs and reduce noise, automate evidence capture.
• Collaborate with control, process and risk teams; act as security control SME.
• Assess policies against NIST CSF, ISO 27001, COBIT and CIS Controls.
• Map all controls to risk taxonomy and business objectives.
• Establish KRIs, control health metrics, and continuous monitoring.
• Translate complex risk into clear business terms for leadership.
• Support regulatory alignment and external audits as needed.

Skills

Security controls

Risk management

Cloud security

Communication

IT Auditing

Software engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

CI/CD pipelines

Containers

Job description

Technology Risk - Control Enablement and Transformation-Dallas-Vice President location_on Dallas, TX, United States

Who We Are:

Led by the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Technology Risk secures Goldman Sachs against hackers and other cyber threats. We are responsible for detecting and preventing attempted cyber intrusions against the firm, helping the firm develop more secure applications and infrastructure, developing software in support of our efforts, measuring cybersecurity risk, and designing and driving implementation of cybersecurity controls. The team has global presence across the Americas, APAC, India and EMEA.

Goldman Sachs has one of the most progressive Technology Risk teams in the industry and is continuing to push the development of risk in preference to security within technology and the business. Year on year success has led the team to work deeper into the organization and gain valuable insights into how technology needs to function, what its risk really is and how this impacts the business.

Responsibilities include:

• Oversee security risks and controls as part of the first line of defense, identifying weaknesses, recommending improvements, and educating control program owners on risk posture across engineering products, including initiatives leveraging traditional AI, generative AI and agentic AI.
• Develop, implement, and enhance the control management framework, processes, standards, and guidelines - including defining what good control design and execution look like, to ensure robust, ongoing security control management across all systems and infrastructures.
• Improve the design and execution of existing security controls to reduce noise where possible and make them run smoothly, rationalizing duplicative or low-value controls, tuning thresholds and false positives, removing unnecessary manual steps, and automating control execution and evidence capture etc.
• Foster a culture of partnership, collaboration and transparency with control, process and risk owning teams, serving as the subject matter expert on security control design and operation.
• Assess and review technology and security policies, standards, and control changes to ensure comprehensive risk management and regulatory and industry standard alignment.
• Review and evaluate security control designs across engineering systems, applications, and infrastructure, including how controls are actually configured and operated, to ensure robust risk mitigation and compliance with industry standards (e.g., NIST SP 800-53, NIST CSF, ISO 27001, COBIT, CSA CCM, CIS Controls).
• Execute and maintain an integrated, risk-aligned security control environment, ensuring all engineering systems, applications, and infrastructure controls are mapped directly to the firm's risk taxonomy and business objectives.
• Establish and manage sustainable operational oversight mechanisms, including key risk indicators (KRIs), control health metrics, and continuous monitoring, to proactively manage and mitigate technology and security risks.
• Translate complex control implementation and risk mitigation strategies into clear, non-technical business terms for senior leadership and key stakeholders.

Basic Qualifications:

• Hands-on security controls experience, assessing control design and operating effectiveness, and redesigning controls to improve how they perform in practice (not solely attestation or testing-based assurance).
• Experience with developing policies and procedures according to internationally recognized methodologies for IT management in the domains related to Software Engineering and IT Technology.
• Strong understanding of enterprise technology concepts, including cloud computing (AWS, Azure, GCP), identity and access management, microservices, APIs, containerization, CI/CD pipelines, databases, logging and monitoring tooling, and modern software engineering practices.
• Framework Knowledge: Deep knowledge of industry-standard security, technology risk and control frameworks (e.g., NIST SP 800-53, NIST CSF, ISO 27001, COBIT, CSA CCM, CIS Controls, ITIL).
• 10+ years of relevant experience in security controls, technology risk management, cybersecurity, software engineering, cloud security, IT auditing, or a first/1.5-line risk and control function within financial services or a major technology company.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to present complex technical risks clearly to senior stakeholders, combined with a strong delivery focus in a fast-paced environment.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, or a related quantitative discipline.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Relevant professional certifications (e.g., CISA, CISM, CRISC, CISSP, CCSP) are highly desirable.

Healthcare & Medical Insurance

We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.

Financial Wellness & Retirement

We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities.

Health Services

We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also provide state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices.

Fitness

To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount).

Child Care & Family Care

We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.