Technology Operational Risk Management Director - Executive Director

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · Jersey City, NJ +1 · Corporate Sector

Technology Operational Risk Management Director responsible for second line of defense oversight of technology and cybersecurity/technology operational risk for Commercial and Investment Bank Markets lines of business. Advises senior technology leaders on firm modernization, transformation to modern engineering practices, evaluates risk posture against modernization roadmaps, Agentic AI adoption, and proactively reviews change activity.

What you'd actually do

  1. Serve as the risk lead for technology and cybersecurity technology areas
  2. Evaluate risk posture and assess alignment to modernization strategies/roadmaps (e.g., cloud adoption, platform modernization).
  3. Shape technology and cyber risk strategy with senior tech and digital leaders
  4. Identify technology operational risks stemming from events/incidents impacting operations (including disruption of CIB markets operations where applicable).
  5. Identify operational risks from large and/or impactful change activities.

Skills

Required

  • 10+ years of senior IT leadership experience across application development, infrastructure, and/or cybersecurity with strong engineering background.
  • Proven ability to influence/advise senior technology executives and operate effectively in a fast-paced, matrixed organization.
  • Significant experience architecting and delivering large, complex solutions, including public and/or private cloud architectures (ie. AWS/GCP/Azure).
  • Ability to translate business strategy into investable technical roadmaps using enterprise architecture principles.
  • Strong commercial and vendor management experience with external partners/suppliers.
  • Strong understanding of application testing, quality control, change and release management.
  • Familiarity with strategic development tools (e.g., JIRA, Jenkins, Artifactory).
  • Experience with ITSM/ITIL, with focus on engineering processes.
  • Expertise in resiliency and observability patterns supporting large-scale systems.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to translate technical topics into business decisions.

What the JD emphasized

  • Agentic AI adoption
  • technology operational risk
  • events/incidents