Tech Risk & Controls Director

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · BOURNEMOUTH, DORSET, United Kingdom · Corporate Sector

This role focuses on managing technology risk and controls within a financial institution, with a specific emphasis on the safe adoption and governance of AI-assisted workflows. The Director will develop strategies, policies, and processes to identify, assess, and mitigate risks associated with AI usage, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and industry best practices. The role involves collaborating with stakeholders, managing teams, and providing insights to senior leaders on the effectiveness of controls.

What you'd actually do

  1. 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.
  2. Sets reuse-first expectations for enterprise-authorized AI adoption within the work environment across technology risk and controls operations to accelerate evidence synthesis, issue analysis, and executive reporting, with human-in-the-loop validation and appropriate handling of sensitive data.
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. Manage reporting and governance of overall controls, policies, issue management, and measurements, etc., providing insight to senior leaders into effectiveness of controls and inform governance work.

Skills

Required

  • Formal training or certification in security concepts, with expert 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.
  • Demonstrated experience leading safe adoption of enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment within technology risk and controls workflows, including validation practices and awareness of data sensitivity.
  • Ability to define review/approval and escalation expectations for AI-assisted recommendations while maintaining security, auditability, and regulatory compliance outcomes.
  • 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.

Nice to have

  • Strong understanding of Software Development Lifecycle
  • Strong understanding of financial services
  • Experience working on complex cyber security initiatives
  • Strong executive reporting and presentation skills.

What the JD emphasized

  • regulatory requirements
  • regulatory obligations
  • regulatory compliance
  • AI adoption
  • AI-assisted workflows
  • governance standards for AI