Technology Risk Business Partner

Role Overview

As the Technology Risk Business Partner (Banking), you will serve as a embedded risk advisor across core banking technology, digital channels, payments infrastructure, and IT operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Embed directly with Engineering Lead, Enterprise Architects, Payments Tech, and Infrastructure teams to provide pragmatic risk guidance on new technology initiatives and system modernizations.
• Translate complex technical risks (e.g., legacy core dependencies, cloud misconfigurations, open-source vulnerabilities) into business impact terms for senior banking executives and risk committees.
• Conduct risk assessments on critical banking architectures, API integrations, core system migrations, and third-party fintech applications.
• Partner with DevOps and Security teams to design automated controls embedded within CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows.
• Evaluate high-availability setups, disaster recovery (DR), business continuity planning (BCP), and single points of failure across critical payment rails (e.g., SWIFT, ACH, FedNow) and core platforms.
• Participate in major tech incident post-mortems to identify root-cause architectural weaknesses and oversee remediation plans.
• Ensure banking technology systems adhere to regulatory mandates and frameworks (e.g., FFIEC, NIST CSF, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, DORA, SOC 2).
• Facilitate technical audit readiness, supporting internal audits and regulatory exams (e.g., OCC, Federal Reserve, FDIC, or local central bank).
• Maintain the technology risk register for assigned banking units, tracking Key Risk Indicators (KRIs) such as tech debt impact, unpatched vulnerabilities, and system uptime.
• Champion a proactive culture of risk and compliance by design across technology units.