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 a Sr. Director, Tech Risk & Analysis at Capital One, you will work closely within our cyber security Governance and Risk team, leading a team to coordinate and execute on audit, regulatory and executive engagements. You will work with extended technical teams to manage and improve our processes from beginning to end, using our business’ management framework, SLQ2CQ, based on Lean Enterprise and Six Sigma.
We are seeking a dedicated and disciplined process and risk professional, who excels in a team environment, displays strong leadership skills, and motivates others. They must be proficient in managing and directing their own work independently, while influencing partners across the company and across multiple levels of the organization. This person will have excellent communication skills, attention to detail, strong analytical skills, quickly adapts to change, and is self motivated. As a part of the Information Security Office, you will have the opportunity to work with and lead cross functional teams. You will do this in a collaborative environment that values your insight, encourages you to take on new responsibilities, promotes strategic thinking, and supports continuous learning and growth.
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…