Public Cloud Technology Risk & Controls Lead – VP

Join our team to play a pivotal role in mitigating tech risks and upholding operational excellence, driving innovation in risk management. 

Tech Risk & Controls professionals play a critical role in the identification, assessment, oversight, monitoring, and reporting of compliance and operational risk in line with the firm’s standards. They are accountable for supporting and advising technology-aligned process owners in managing operational aspects of governance, risk, and compliance. Tech Risk & Controls is also responsible for the design, implementation, and maintenance of controls and risk management frameworks, and they partner with Product Security to ensure design and implemented controls are operating in alignment with firm, regulatory, legal, and industry standards as required. Tech Risk & Controls also partners with a variety of stakeholders, including Product Managers (both business and technology aligned), Business Control Managers, 2nd Line of Defense (2LOD), Audit, Compliance, and regulators to develop and report a comprehensive view of the technology risk posture and the impact on the business.

 

Operating within the Cloud Foundational Services product line, a part of Infra Platforms(IP), you will provide a pivotal role in ensuring our public cloud capabilities are operating safely and securely for Public Cloud .  You will manage the overall book of work for ensuring the compliance of our public cloud platform, facing off to regulators, auditors, and our Cybersecurity & Technology Control function.  You will partner closely with both the product management and engineering functions to ensure the work is appropriately prioritized to ensure the technology landscape is operating within the risk appetite, and provide transparent reporting to senior management on the overall risk position of the product line.

 

Responsibilities:

• Document and monitor operational risk and control environment to identify existing and emerging operational risk and issues
• Evaluate and document issues related to changes in the risk environment and operational risk priorities
• Identify and aggregate thematic risk related to findings and trends (including risk from other products and hygiene) to address within product/LOB
• Assist product owner with identifying compensating controls for high severity risks
• Engage 2nd line of defense to discuss risk posture and to obtain non-objection when required
• Communicate heightened risk that is relevant to stakeholders and customers to ensure transparency and appropriate prioritization for remediation
• Understand legal obligations applicable to the product and how the processes and associated controls provide evidence of compliance
• Coordinate and monitor issue management to ensure timely and sustainable remediation and provide thematic analysis to identify trends
• Maintain Risk Assessment Structure (RAS) in CORE to accurately represent critical processes and drive the right accountability
• Partner with process owners to respond to internal and external audit and regulatory requests for information
• Assess and influence technology risk priorities within the book of work that are aligned to control design in the LOB/product roadmap
• Educate and advise on the process from permit to build to permit to operate

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 5+ years of experience or equivalent expertise in technology risk management, information security, or related field, emphasizing risk identification, assessment, and mitigation
• Familiarity with risk management frameworks, industry standards, and financial industry regulatory requirements
• Proficient knowledge and expertise in data security, risk assessment & reporting, control evaluation, design, and governance, with a proven record of implementing effective risk mitigation strategies
• Demonstrated ability to influence executive-level strategic decision-making and translating technology insights into business strategies for senior executives

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

 

• CISM, CRISC, CISSP, or similar industry-recognized risk and risk certifications are preferred

 

 

 

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

  

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