Technology Control Specialist, IT Resilience

Join us as a Technology Controls Specialist, IT Resilience

In this crucial role, we’ll turn to you to drive and facilitate IT risk assessments with a focus on IT resilience and change risk across the bank, through the effective application of technology risk framework. This is an opportunity to gain exposure as you build and maintain relationships with stakeholders across Technology and the Wealth Chief Digital Information Office (WCDIO) business, ensuring management engagement with operational risk objectives. You can join us on a full-time or part-time basis, which means you’ll work fewer hours a week than someone on a full-time contract, with a minimum of 30 hours per week.

What you'll do

As a Technology Controls Specialist, IT Resilience, we’ll look to you to apply effective risk management thinking in an IT environment, anticipating and assessing the potential impact of IT stability and disruption risks across the bank. You’ll be in charge of the first line risk oversight over IT resilience and IT change controls by identifying and assessing material risks, along with managing the key controls for IT resilience and IT change risk.

You’ll also be:

• Acting as a key contact for the WCDIO Resilience Service forum and ensuring that the criticality of IT assets is adequately assessed.
• Supervising IT Disaster Recovery activities and supporting disaster recovery strategy and IT resilience maturity increase.
• Representing Tech Risk & Controls in the various architecture boards and supporting cloud strategy from an IT resilience perspective.
• Supervising the IT change portfolio and key initiatives and representing risk in our change board.
• Pro-actively supporting external audits from a first line IT risk perspective and putting potential findings in risk context.
• Owning the IT resilience and change risk reporting.

The skills you'll need

To succeed in this role, you’ll need experience of IT control environments and frameworks, as well as practical experience in risk management methodologies. In addition, you’ll need a solid understanding of the application of operational risk in a technology environment with a focus on IT resilience, and experience in a risk or control technical role in the financial services industry.

You’ll also demonstrate:

• A fundamental understanding and knowledge of IT resilience, disaster recovery, IT architecture principles, and general IT controls.
• A good understanding of operational resilience regulation in the financial industry, especially PRA SS1/21.
• Experience in high-availability cloud architecture and cloud disaster recovery mechanisms.
• Solid experience in IT risk management practices and reporting.
• Experience in IT auditing.