Description
As a Senior Manager, Tech Risk & Analysis - Strategic Tech Risk Advisor at Capital One, you will be a strategic risk partner to business leaders and senior technology executives, directly shaping the company's 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 the company's enterprise technology.
In this role, you will apply your technology engineering/architecture, risk management, analytical, and problem-solving skills to identify and deploy innovative solutions to mitigate risks to the company.
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)
- Maintain a broad understanding of relevant operating systems and their respective vulnerabilities in order to quickly identify the severity of potential issues
- Lead technology risk assessments of large-scale technology change initiatives to ensure all risks and potential areas of non-compliance are identified, documented, and planned for appropriate remediation
- Develop risk strategy and lifecycle risk management for technologies in scope.
- Quickly and accurately analyze data, assess risk, and prioritize published threats and potential risks to differentiate critical, high-risk, and low-risk issues, and escalate as appropriate
- Develop 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.
- Demonstrate cross-functional influence & engagement: partner seamlessly across Engineering, Data Science, Cyber Security, Legal, Compliance, and other Risk disciplines.
- Research, assemble, and/or evaluate information regarding industry practices or applicable regulatory changes; recommend 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
The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are: Plano, TX: $182,500 - $208,300 for Sr. Manager, Tech Risk & Analysis
This role is also eligible to earn performance-based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long-term incentives (LTI).
Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial, and other benefits that support your total well-being.