Tech Risk & Controls Director, Compute Platforms & Network Services

Job Description
Join a role that's central to our technological resilience, offering a unique opportunity to shape the firm's tech risk strategy and enhance industry compliance.
As a Tech Risk & Controls Director in Infrastructure Platforms, Compute Platforms & Network Services, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and implementing the firm's technology risk management strategy. Leveraging your advanced knowledge and expertise in technology-risk disciplines, you will identify, oversee, and mitigate compliance and operational risks in line with the firm's standards. You will collaborate with various stakeholders, including Product Owners, Business Control Managers, and regulators, to develop and maintain a comprehensive view of the technology risk posture and its impact on the business. Your ability to make calculated decisions, manage large teams, and drive strategic projects will be crucial in ensuring the firm's adherence to regulatory obligations and industry best practices. Your work will contribute to the long-term success and resilience of the organization in an ever-evolving technology landscape.
Job responsibilities

• Develop and implement technology risk management strategies, policies, and processes to identify, assess, and mitigate risks, and drive strategic projects and initiatives to enhance the firm's technology risk management capabilities, in line with industry best practices and the firm's standards and regulatory requirements.
• Build and cultivate an audit-ready strong risk culture across the APAC Region for Compute Platforms & Network Services.
• Identify and escalate emerging and upstream technology risk through execution of the Firm's management framework tools, including risk event management, reporting, and action plan tracking, and provide expert counsel to stakeholders and constituents regarding their security obligations, facilitating acceptable outcomes.
• Establish and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including key cross-functional team leads, regulators, and auditors, to ensure compliance with legal, regulatory, and industry standards.
• Coordinate, track and monitor Requests for Information (RFI) responses for audit and regulatory examinations in region.
• Maintain calendar of upcoming global audit, second-line and regulatory engagements in region
• Serve as a point of contact and subject matter expert for Internal Audit, Compliance, Conduct & Operational Risk (CCOR) and Cybersecurity & Technology Controls (CTC) Global Regulatory Engagement teams.
• Identify and drive opportunities to leverage automation, AI/ML and self-service capabilities to aid in RFI responses.
• Interact with Technology Leadership, Product Owners, and Application Development teams on an on-going basis for business-as-usual risk activities, reporting and project initiatives.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related disciplines
• 7+ years of experience or equivalent expertise in technology risk management, information security, or a related field, with a focus on managing risk identification, assessment, and mitigation.
• Demonstrated expertise in risk management frameworks, industry standards, and regulatory requirements relevant to the financial industry
• Proven ability to lead large teams, manage cross-functional projects, influence executive-level strategic decision-making, and effectively translate technology insights to business strategy in communications with senior executives
• Advanced knowledge and experience leading data security, risk assessment & reporting, and control evaluation, design, and governance, with a track record of implementing effective risk mitigation strategies
• Experience working in internal audit, independent risk management, or second-line of defense function
• Experience in regulatory engagement management, including engagement with the Office of the Comptroller of Currency (OCC), Federal Reserve Bank (FRB), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and other global regulators.
• Experience working in a matrix management model, utilizing virtual teams
• Experience working both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment is essential
• Strong influencing skills, comfortable executing against recommendations and plans by overcoming barriers and resistance

About Us
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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About the Team
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