# Senior Manager, Technology Risk Assurance

**Company**: Airwallex
**Location**: Amsterdam
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

You'll build and scale a practical Second Line of Defence technology risk assurance function for a fast-growing, regulated fintech.

Responsibilities:

- Recruit, mentor, and lead a lean, high-performing team of technology risk engineers and assurance specialists.

- Lead second-line assurance across ITGCs, IT application controls, cloud infrastructure, and database management.

- Build an automation-first assurance engine using AI agents, automated workflows, and custom Python and SQL scripts.

- Establish automated finding lifecycle and remediation governance.

- Design and execute control frameworks for generative AI, LLMs, agentic workflows, machine learning models, and automated decision engines.

- Partner with external auditors and global regulators to defend autonomous testing scripts and AI-agent methodologies.

- Translate complex technology risk into clear recommendations for engineers, senior executives, and board-level risk committees.

Requirements:

- 8+ years of progressive experience in technology risk, IT audit, information security assurance, or technology compliance.

- Big Four background.

- Experience building and testing risk controls.

- A track record of recruiting, mentoring, and leading high-performing technical risk or assurance teams.

- Deep practical expertise in ITGCs, IT application controls, automated business controls, and SOX compliance.

- Hands-on experience assessing cloud risks across AWS or GCP.

- Practical ability to write and use SQL, Python, or API scripts.

- Strong conceptual and practical understanding of risks and controls around AI/ML systems, LLMs, and automated decision engines.

Preferred skills:

- Direct experience building or deploying AI agents, LLM-driven audit assistants, or automated compliance and testing pipelines.

- Fintech experience, particularly within a high-growth fintech, payments platform, digital bank, or cloud-native technology company.

- People management experience.

- Familiarity with international financial technology regulations and expectations.

## Skills

### Required
- technology risk
- IT audit
- information security assurance
- technology compliance
- ITGCs
- IT application controls
- automated business controls
- SOX compliance
- cloud risks
- AWS
- GCP
- SQL
- Python
- API scripts
- AI/ML systems
- LLMs
- automated decision engines

### Nice to have
- AI agents
- LLM-driven audit assistants
- automated compliance and testing pipelines
- fintech experience
- people management
- international financial technology regulations

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