Principal of Access Management Risk

Overall Purpose  

Provides independent second-line oversight, assessment, and credible challenge of first-line technology risk management activities across the company. Partners across Technology, Security, Product, Data, and other business functions to evaluate risk and control practices, including risk assessments, issues management, control validation, key risk indicators, governance reporting, and escalation. Helps ensure technology-related risks are managed consistent with enterprise risk appetite, regulatory expectations, and sound industry practice. May support one or more focus areas based on business need, including Enterprise Technology Risk, Data Security Risk, Access Management Risk, Offensive Security Risk, Vulnerability Management Risk, AI Security Risk, and Asset and Inventory Management Risk. 

Essential Functions 

• Provide independent review, oversight, and credible challenge of first-line technology risk management activities, controls, and decisions. 

• Evaluate the design and execution of risk management practices to ensure alignment with enterprise frameworks, policies, regulatory expectations, and relevant industry standards. 

• Provide independent challenge and oversight of risk identification and assessment activities.  

• Review and challenge risk and control self-assessments, issues management, remediation plans, control validation outcomes, and key risk indicators. 

• Assess the adequacy of severity ratings, root cause analyses, action plans, and closure evidence for technology-related issues and risk events. 

• Identify risk trends, concentrations, and emerging themes through analysis of risk data, governance materials, and business changes; develop an independent view of risk exposure and control effectiveness. 

• Prepare and support reporting, escalation, and discussion materials for senior leaders, governance forums, and risk committees. 

• Partner with first-line leaders, subject matter experts, and independent testing or validation teams to improve clarity of control expectations, testing scope, and evidence requirements. 

• Provide ongoing risk advisory support while maintaining second-line independence and accountability for effective challenge. 

• Recommend opportunities to strengthen risk awareness, governance routines, and training that improve technology risk management maturity. 

• Support the company’s commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data. 

Focus: Enterprise Technology and Information Security Risk 

• Provide independent challenge and oversight of technology risk management practices across infrastructure, cloud, cybersecurity, product, and operational technology domains. 

• Provide independent challenge and oversight of information security risk management practices across threat management, network, endpoint, cloud, architecture, data, access, AI, or application security domains. 

• Assess alignment of technology risk and control activities to enterprise policies, risk frameworks, and applicable industry standards. 

• Evaluate whether risk assessments, control inventories, issues management, and key risk indicators are executed consistently and effectively across the technology organization. 

• Challenge risk identification activities related to significant technology changes, new products or capabilities, and cross-functional initiatives. 

• Assess risk trends and systemic themes across the technology environment and provide independent reporting and escalation as needed. 

Minimum Qualifications 

• Education and/or experience typically obtained through completion of a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent. 

• Typically has 12 years of experience or demonstrated portfolio consistent with experience required of the role in technology risk, information security, operational risk, or related disciplines within a regulated or otherwise complex operating environment. 

• Strong understanding of risk management practices, control frameworks, and second-line oversight within a three lines of defense model. 

• Demonstrated experience providing independent review, challenge, or governance of first-line technology, security, data, or operational risk activities. 

• Strong ability to assess control design and effectiveness, synthesize risk data, identify themes, and translate technical issues into business risk. 

• Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and stakeholder management skills, including experience interacting with senior leaders and cross-functional partners. 

• Strong critical thinking, judgment, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to provide practical, risk-based recommendations in a complex environment. 

• Ability to operate independently, manage competing priorities, and maintain effective working relationships while preserving second-line objectivity. 

• Background and drug screen. 
   

Preferred Qualifications 

• Advanced degree or additional related education and/or experience preferred. 

• Experience in financial services, payments, fintech, or another highly regulated industry. 

• Familiarity with relevant regulatory expectations and industry standards and frameworks applicable to technology and security risk management such as; ISO 27002, PCI DSS, NIST, FFIEC, and SOC 2. 

• Experience supporting governance committees, audits, examinations, or regulatory interactions. 

• Relevant risk, security, audit, or control certifications preferred such as CISA, CISM, CISSP, CCSP, CRISC, GSNA, CGIH, or equivalent preferred. 

• Project or process management experience supporting cross-functional risk, control, or governance initiatives preferred.