# AI Governance Technical Lead **Company**: Dow Jones **Location**: Barcelona, Spain **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: €35,000 - €55,000 **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://dowjones.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Dow_Jones_Career/job/Spain---Barcelona/Manager--AI-Governance_Job_Req_55721?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_fa5a7980-bd6 ## Description Our Technology team drives the evolution of our Technology, Engineering, AI, Data, Product and User Experience functions. With a keen focus on delivering cutting-edge solutions, we shape the digital landscape for our customers, readers, and users with a focus on safeguarding the future of journalism. As an AI Governance Technical Lead, you will report to the VP, Data & AI Governance, and lead the technical assessment and assurance of AI systems across Dow Jones. You will examine how AI systems are designed, what data they access, which actions they can perform and how their risks are controlled. **Responsibilities:** - Lead technical AI risk assessments. Review architectures, data flows, model configurations, integrations and deployment environments. Identify risks, recommend proportionate mitigation and document residual risks and approval conditions using the Dow Jones AI Risk Matrix. - Assess agentic capabilities and system access. Establish which tools and actions an agent can use, under whose identity and permissions, and with what degree of autonomy. - Evaluate changes to previously approved tools. Determine whether AI or agent access introduces new users, permissions, data flows, scale of activity or autonomy beyond the original approval. - Define and validate technical controls. Partner with technical owners to establish least-privilege access, credential protection, data handling restrictions, human oversight, audit logging and mechanisms to suspend or revoke access. - Assess AI-specific security and data risks. Work with Cyber Security and Privacy to address prompt injection, unintended disclosure, inappropriate tool use and risks introduced by external models, connectors and dependencies. - Establish AI evaluation and monitoring requirements. Define proportionate tests for accuracy, groundedness, reliability, bias and safe behaviour, including tool selection and execution for agents. - Build scalable governance processes. Develop technical standards, assessment templates and approved integration patterns. - Conduct technical vendor assessments and support pilots. Examine vendor architecture, data handling, access controls, evaluation evidence and monitoring capabilities. - Support governance throughout the AI life cycle. Maintain visibility into system owners, risk assessments, dependencies, approval conditions and outstanding mitigation. - Provide clear technical advice. Present findings and recommendations to the AI Steering Committee and other decision-makers. **Requirements:** - Typically 4 - 7 years of relevant experience in AI or data engineering, technical AI governance, security architecture, technology risk, model validation or a related discipline. - Strong understanding of LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation, AI agents and tool calling, including their limitations and failure modes. - Ability to review architecture diagrams, API documentation, access policies, configuration files and logs, and to discuss implementation choices confidently with engineers. - Practical proficiency in Python or a comparable scripting language sufficient to inspect integrations, query APIs, analyse results and prototype control checks or evaluations. - Working knowledge of cloud architectures, identity and access management, authentication, secrets management, application security and data protection. **Benefits:** - Comprehensive Healthcare Plans for you and your family - Paid Time Off (30 days a year) - Meal Vouchers - Retirement Plans - Lifestyle programs & Wellness Resources - Education Benefits - Family Care Benefits & Caregiving Support - Subscription Discounts - Employee Referral Program - Financial Health Programs - Cybersecurity Protection ## Skills ### Required - Python - AI - data engineering - technical AI governance - security architecture - technology risk - model validation ### Nice to have - LLMs - retrieval-augmented generation - AI agents - tool calling - cloud architectures - identity and access management - authentication - secrets management - application security - data protection --- Source: [Apply at dowjones.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com](https://dowjones.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Dow_Jones_Career/job/Spain---Barcelona/Manager--AI-Governance_Job_Req_55721?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)