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)