Sr. Director, Tech Risk & Analysis

Overview

Sr. Director, Tech Risk & Analysis

Do you love navigating complex technology landscapes and safeguarding critical systems? Do you enjoy solving complex business problems in a fast-paced, collaborative, inclusive, and risk-conscious delivery environment? At Capital One, you'll be part of a big group of makers, breakers, doers and disruptors who love to solve real problems and meet real customer needs. We are seeking Tech Risk & Analysis Professionals who are passionate about cyber best practices, threat analysis, and risk mitigation to join our team. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to be on the forefront of driving cybersecurity governance, resilience, and risk transformation across Capital One.

As the Senior Director, Technology Controls, you will drive the overarching strategy, execution, and modernization of our enterprise technology risk and compliance landscape. You will lead the Tech Controls organization across core operational towers—spanning product management for enterprise control platforms, assurance operations, data analytics, control performance execution, and executive reporting.

In this role, you will lead the strategic transformation to shift the organization from traditional, point-in-time compliance to proactive, continuous, and automated controls monitoring. You will serve as a key visionary and execution leader in leveraging agentic AI to streamline audit, attestation, and certification workflows while advancing our enterprise technology controls health.

Summary: 

• Applies expertise on cyber best practices to assess current state, identify gaps, and assess cyber risk, threats, and business impact
• Defines mitigation strategies, prioritizes and escalates recommendations 
• Participates in design and implementation of cyber control programs
• Cybersecurity area-specific SME [knowledge of risk frameworks, information security risk assessments, information risk controls, regulatory and internal governance], data analysis [metrics and reporting], and customer engagement

Responsibilities: 

• Possesses an understanding of technology systems at an aggregate level, including networks, applications, cloud computing, and data
• Maintains a broad understanding of relevant operating systems and their respective vulnerabilities in order to quickly identify the severity of potential issues [doesn't just know how the tools and reports work, but also how to recognize risk]
• Demonstrates a broad understanding of major categories of cyber threats, how those threats can occur in our environment, and the measures required to safeguard the enterprise
• Leverages reporting and tools [doesn't build them] to perform analysis on different types of projects, efforts, or datasets and uses data to inform policies and drive change
• Understands associated reporting metrics and is able to inform on cyber risk
• May use code to perform and/or automate analysis and repeatable tasks, but not a baseline requirement for the role
• Leverages tools [e.g. Excel/Google Sheets] to analyze data and create charts to support cyber risk management efforts
• Quickly and accurately analyzes data, assesses risk, and prioritizes published vulnerabilities and potential risks to differentiate critical, high-risk, and low-risk issues, and escalates as appropriate
• Researches, assembles, and/or evaluates information regarding industry practices or applicable regulatory changes affecting cybersecurity policies or programs; recommends sound, practical solutions to complex issues
• Makes recommendations regarding changes to policies, procedures, and control programs to mitigate evolving risks
• Effectively self-challenges cyber control programs as part of first-line duties and escalates risks where appropriate
• Demonstrates sound lifecycle program management to include documenting and communicating action plans, impediments and risks, and stakeholder engagement
• Reports on vulnerability assessments to ensure proper functionality and alignment with Information Security Standards [able to understand and explain, but not required to resolve]
• Advises Accountable Executives of cyber-related risk on a consistent basis via relevant risk forums and through existing processes such as exception and issue management
• Keeps pace with the evolving cyber threat landscape to ensure ongoing relevance of cyber risk mitigation

Basic Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s Degree or military experience
• At least 12 years of experience in technology (software delivery, distributed systems, cloud-native architecture, infrastructure as code), cybersecurity (identity and access management, application security, cloud security, data protection), technology auditing, systems risk management, technology risk assessments, resilience engineering (operational resilience, business continuity, disaster recovery, high availability), chaos engineering (fault injection, blast radius mitigation, automated security validation), site reliability engineering (SLAs or SLOs, observability, incident response), or a combination.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree in Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or equivalent
• 14+ years of Risk Management experience in Cyber or Information Security practice
• 12+ years of experience in cloud computing (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• 12+ years of experience in a second-line or oversight role at a financial institution or regulatory agency 
• Professional Security Certification or Professional Risk Management Certification
• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
• Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)
• Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC)
• Open FAIR Certified

At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization, or offer any immigration related support for this position (e.g. H1B, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, F-1 CPT, J-1, TN, E-3, and O-1, or any other forms of work authorization that require immigration support from an employer).

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.

McLean, VA: $269,600 - $307,700 for Sr. Director, Tech Risk & Analysis

New York, NY: $294,100 - $335,700 for Sr. Director, Tech Risk & Analysis

Richmond, VA: $245,100 - $279,800 for Sr. Director, Tech Risk & Analysis

Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate’s offer letter.

This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at theCapital One Careers website. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.

This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.

No agencies please. Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non-discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace. Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections 4901-4920; New York City’s Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia’s Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.

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