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Director IT Embedded Risk

DTCC
Jersey City, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 29 May 2025

About the role

Are you ready to make an impact at DTCC?  

Do you want to work on innovative projects, collaborate with a dynamic and supportive team, and receive investment in your professional development? At DTCC, we are at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets.  We're committed to helping our employees grow and succeed. We believe that you have the skills and drive to make a real impact.  We foster a thriving internal community and are committed to creating a workplace that looks like the world that we serve.

Pay and Benefits:

  • Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
  • Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location
  • Pension / Retirement benefits 
  • Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.
  • DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day unique to each team or employee). 

The impact you will have in this role:

An IT ERM Director has primary responsibility for supporting and conducting targeted IT risk assessments, handling the risk profile of aligned IT capabilities, analyze and remediate risk items (e.g., issues, policy deviations), and for proactively identifying gaps in processes and controls.

The incumbent will complete and support day-to-day IT risk management activities for the Enterprise Product & Platform Engineering (EPPE) department, handle deadlines and collaborator expectations, and lead or participate in projects within assigned areas of responsibility.  

In carrying these responsibilities, the incumbent must work collaboratively with the IT Risk Management team (including Management Control Testing and Center of Excellence functions), other risk & control functions (e.g., Internal Audit, Technology Risk Management), as well as with IT line management (1st line).

Your Primary Responsibilities:

  • Proactively lead and support efforts to identify, assess, and mitigate risk within the Enterprise Product & Platform Engineering (EPPE) department
  • Develop and strengthen relationships with IT partners and control evaluation functions across the 3 lines of defense 
  • Develop, communicate, and ensure alignment to department risk policies, procedures and standard methodologies 
  • Contribute to documentation of processes and controls across cloud, mainframe, network, and database technologies
  • Advise and periodically review inherent and residual risk assessments for supported IT capabilities for their impact on business and functional areas incorporating indicators of control environment strength (e.g., key metrics, issues) 
  • Contribute to reviews, and validate the accuracy of, risk assessments conducted by the second line of defense (New Initiatives, Third Party Risk, Compliance)
  • Reassess existing processes and create new ones that most effectively anticipate, lead and reduce risk to DTCC and its participants
  • Cultivate an environment of regulatory awareness and ensure regulatory compliance
  • Demonstrate and embed the behaviors and proficiencies that build a risk management attitude in your organization
  • Support ongoing staff education; mentor and develop team members on technical capabilities and risk management concepts
  • Drive successful action plan and issue closures by assessing root causes of issues, defining appropriate action plans, and ensuring sustainability of implemented solutions
  • Support reviews of initiative portfolio risks with initiative sponsors, key collaborators and the New Initiatives Office
  • Lead review of risk incidents, corresponding root cause analysis and remediation plan development.  Proactively identify issues and trends resulting from risk incidents

**NOTE:  The Primary Responsibilities of this role are not limited to the details above. **

Qualifications:

  • Minimum of 10 years of related experience
  • Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience

Talents Needed for Success:

  • 10+ years’ experience as a senior risk and control professional, preferably within technical auditing/ examination and focus in financial services industry (or other highly supervised industry)
  • Background in financial services information technology or Big 4 technical advisory services a plus
  • Highly motivated, diligent, self-starter, who can set priorities, take initiative and work both independently and proactively in a diverse, multi-location team environment
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving including for data identification, analysis, measurement and repor

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