Principal Analyst- Technology Risk – Business Services
Job Description
Job Description
Technology Risk Management Framework:
- Establish IT risk management framework to identify, analyze, mitigate, manage, monitor, and communicate IT risks.
- Ensure adherence to Group Security policies and standards for effective implementation of security controls within GIT.
- Contribute towards maintenance of standard technology risk and control library.
- Implement the cyber risk assessment model and analysis approaches.
- Understand how cyber risk fits into overall Technology Risk Management and ensure integration.
- Identify, agree and manage various assurance initiatives and internal reviews across GIT
Cloud Management
- Ensure due diligence of cloud service providers and oversee ongoing cloud service providers security assessments.
- Evaluate cloud solutions and determine risk of technology architecture, implementation, and suitability for the organization.
- Ensure cloud service providers contracts are compliant to Group policies/processes and relevant controls are considered in the contract with cloud service providers.
- Assess the risk implications of digital innovation and its impact on technology risk profile of the bank. Provide recommendations to optimize the risks and ensure technology policy and process alignment.
- Support and maintain risk assessment capabilities to review and assess digital business models end to end.
- Work with business and technology teams to better understand digital business risk and facilitate a balance between the need to protect the organization and the need to optimize customer experience.
- Conduct in-depth technical security reviews, risk assessments, and architecture reviews for Cloud based technologies and solutions to ensure alignment with information security policies and technology guidelines.
- Provide risk management guidance and advice to technology teams on cloud technologies and digital solutions.
DevOps/DevSecOps/Agile Practices
- Provide inputs to development and maintenance of policies, frameworks, methods and standards for the DevOps and agile practices.
- Work with technology teams to embed automated controls across delivery pipeline. Collaborate with service teams to ensure CI/CD pipeline delivers faster time-to-market for the product and positive customer experience.
- Monitor and support integration and standardization of related development methodologies across Technology service lines.
- Facilitate the shift to the left approach of moving a task to an earlier stage in the development cycle to ensure the risk and security standards are met from the beginning
- Advocate adaptation of continuous feedback loop mechanisms and ensure team members are regularly prompted to improve the development and maintenance of the solutions.
- Coach agile teams in the methodology and ensure training is provided to employees on the agile practices.
- Evaluate possible bottlenecks of running the application in production and suggest service improvement plans.
- Ensure compliance and security best practices are incorporated throughout the development process.
Technology Risk Identification & Assessments:
- Ensure timely identification and assessment of IT risks throughout software development / acquisition lifecycle.
- Ensure IT risks are managed as per the agreed IT risk appetite, tolerance levels and in accordance with remediation plans and target dates defined in alignment with Group Policies.
- Support and help technology teams on various risk and control assessments activities.
- Participate in Project & Change reviews to ensure appropriate treatment of technology risks.
- Work with technology teams to ensure implementation of comprehensive solutions to protect organization information assets.
- Manage periodic risk assessment activities to identify vulnerabilities, threats and control effectiveness.
- Periodically identify the risks that might compromise cyber security.
- Analyse the severity of each risk by assessing likelihood and impact. Agree with stakeholders on the residual risk ratings and potential risk exposure.
- Qualify/quantify exposures and vulnerabilities on a big-picture scale to create a thorough understanding of the risk environment.
- Technology Risk Treatment & Review:
- Oversee development of risk treatment strategies to maintain the bank's risk posture at the desired level.
- Engage with various IT teams to review risk profile, risk treatment strategies and action plans.
- Ensure proper implementation of risk treatment options such as mitigation, transfer, acceptance .etc. and help IT teams in closure of risks/issues.
- Regularly review current risk measures and ensure implementation of adaptive approach to manage evolving cyber risks
Technology Risk Monitoring & Reporting:
- Identify and define Key Risk Indicators (KRI) to monitor high risk areas.
- Deliver periodic risk profile reports and KRI reports to senior management.
- Review Major incident Reports and ensure proper risk/control measures are identified to prevent incident reoccurrence.
- Manage Technology risk committee meetings and ensure closure of action items.
Qualifications
Knowledge & Experience:
- 10 or more years of working experience in IT Security, Risk and Governance practices.
- 3+ years of experience working in leadership role IT Security, Risk and Governance.
- Knowledge and expertise in virtualization and cloud computing environments (different cloud models and types).
- Hands on experience in using various Cloud Security best practices such as Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) guidelines and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) guidelines.
- Demonstrated experience in conducting technical risk assessments for various Cloud platforms.
- Good understanding of process models and industry standards relating to IT Security, Risk and Governance.
- Good understanding of security and risk management in financial institutions.
- Excellent knowledge all aspects of technology: infrastructure operations, security, development, change/transformation, support, innovation, vendor management etc., and banking related processes especially risk management. Should have demonstrable experience of working in many of these domains.
- Strong analytical capabilities and knowledge of related tools and processes. Proven ability to handle volume detail and summarize effectively.
- Good understanding of banking related environments – especially around high availability, data confidentiality, security etc.
- Evidence of influencing senior stakeholders and dealing with external auditors and regulators.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and good oral and written communication skills.
- Achievement of industry recognized certifications such as CISSP, CRISC, CCSP, CCSK, CISA etc.
- Achievement of AWS and Azure cloud certifications is preferable.
Skills:
- Relationship management
- Influencing skills
- Big picture thinker with attention to details
- Strong change and communication skills
- Strong analysis skills
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Resource (time and people) management skills
Job Details
Employment Types:
Full time
Industry:
Other
Function:
IT
Roles:
Software Engineer / Programmer