# Technology Risk VP

**Company**: BlackRock
**Location**: Wilmington, DE
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: USD$117,500.00 - USD$173,500.00
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Finance
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q219635

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## Description

At BlackRock, the Enterprise Technology Risk & Controls team operates within the first line of defense and is responsible for advancing technology risk management, control effectiveness, and enterprise resilience across the firm.

The Technology Controls & Risk Management team is focused on strengthening the firm's technology control environment through improved control design, policies and standards, outcome-based metrics, enterprise risk indicators, and risk reduction initiatives aligned to the firm's most significant technology risks.

We are seeking a forward-thinking Technology Risk VP to help shape the future of technology risk management, control effectiveness, and resilience at BlackRock. As part of the Enterprise Technology Risk & Controls team, this individual will influence how technology risk is governed, measured, monitored, and reduced across one of the world's largest and most complex technology environments.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Help develop and mature technology risk and control frameworks aligned to enterprise technology risk priorities.

- Define control objectives that clearly articulate intended risk outcomes and expected control performance.

- Establish traceability across risks, controls, standards, metrics, issues, and remediation activities.

- Support consistent adoption of risk and control practices across technology organizations.

- Drive initiatives to mature technology risk policies, standards, and implementation requirements.

- Partner with stakeholders to improve clarity, consistency, and usability of control requirements.

- Ensure alignment between policy intent, technology controls, and operational execution.

- Facilitate cross-functional working groups and stakeholder engagement activities to support adoption and accountability.

- Design outcome-based control effectiveness measures that provide insight into whether controls are reducing risk as intended.

- Help develop Key Risk Indicators, Key Performance Indicators, and forward-looking risk signals that provide visibility into technology risk exposure and resilience.

- Translate technical and operational data into executive-level insights that support technology risk governance, prioritization, and decision-making.

- Improve transparency of control effectiveness, remediation progress, and measurable risk reduction outcomes.

- Identify systemic technology risk themes and partner with technology leaders to drive measurable reduction in risk exposure.

- Support enterprise initiatives focused on technology resilience, software development practices, asset lifecycle management, control modernization, and emerging technology risk domains.

- Translate risk findings, control weaknesses, and operational trends into action plans with clear ownership, milestones, and measurable outcomes.

- Track remediation progress and evaluate whether completed actions materially reduce risk.

- Help leadership prioritize risk reduction efforts based on severity, business impact, control effectiveness, and resilience outcomes.

**Desired Skills & Experience**

- Strong experience in technology risk management, technology controls, cybersecurity, operational risk, engineering risk management, or related disciplines.

- Strong understanding of technology control frameworks and industry standards such as NIST, COBIT, ITIL, ISO 27001, CSA CCM, or equivalent.

- Experience developing policies, standards, control objectives, metrics, risk indicators, or technology risk frameworks.

- Experience designing control effectiveness measures, or performance measurement capabilities.

- Strong program management, stakeholder management, and change leadership capabilities.

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technology risks into clear executive-level narratives.

- Proven ability to influence Engineering, Information Security, Risk, Audit, and business stakeholders to drive complex initiatives.

**Benefits**

- Salary range: USD$117,500.00 - USD$173,500.00

- Annual discretionary bonus

- Healthcare

- Leave benefits

- Retirement benefits

- Tuition reimbursement

- Flexible Time Off (FTO)

## Skills

### Required
- technology risk management
- technology controls
- cybersecurity
- operational risk
- engineering risk management
- NIST
- COBIT
- ITIL
- ISO 27001
- CSA CCM

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