IT Audit Director - Cyber, AI, and Cloud

the Client•Reston, VA

13d•Hybrid

About The Position

In this compelling leadership position, you will lead efforts examining and analyzing every aspect of the client's IT environment. Focused on cutting-edge cloud services, the audits cover a broad range of exciting technologies, providing a challenging environment with tremendous opportunities for personal growth. Within IT Audit, the infrastructure team focuses on evaluating a complex environment of IT processes, systems, and services, conducting audits on highly visible topics such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), cyber security, IT Governance, resiliency, and the management of various operating systems and platforms. In this position, you will take ownership over audits and reviews, setting direction and being hands-on throughout planning, executing, and reporting. You will also play a pivotal role in coaching and mentoring other team members. This role is on a small team, so this is a highly hands-on leadership role where you will own and lead complex IT audits focused on cyber security, artificial intelligence, resiliency, cloud infrastructure, and related technologies. This role regularly interacts with technology leaders, management teams, auditors, and business stakeholders. We are seeking someone who understands and can talk tech to technical business leads and teams, and who has had formal people management experience.

Requirements

Expert knowledge of cyber security, artificial intelligence, or cloud infrastructure technologies, such as Amazon Web Services.
Strong project management skills.
Prior experience coaching and providing feedback to audit staff.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to speak to technical experts in their technical languages.
Data Analytics skills: - Strong skills in identifying, designing, and implementing visualizations of various data sets. - Experience with visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, Plotly, Seaborn). - Coding skills and experience with data analytics related languages, such as Python (including SciPy, NumPy, and/or PySpark).
AI skills: - Experience using AI solutions to increase effectiveness and efficiency as part of day-to-day audit execution. - Demonstrated work auditing AI solutions and related risks. - Knowledge of agentic AI architectures and risks.
Deep technical expertise in areas such as cloud infrastructure, cyber security, AI, systems architecture, or information security, combined with audit experience and strong project management skills.
Formal people management experience.
Ability to learn and understand enterprise technology landscapes for auditing purposes (AI, Cloud, and Cyber) and successfully lead complex IT audits within the first 90–120 days.
8 years of experience in IT Audit, IT Risk Management, or Information Security.
Prior internal audit experience for a large, complex organization.

Responsibilities

Apply specialized technical expertise to direct and oversee audits in often complex areas, such as AI, cyber security, resiliency, and complex infrastructure environments in the cloud.
Identify risks and assess the potential impact of risks on the organization to develop and adjust audit plans as appropriate and determine areas requiring additional analysis.
Participate in annual planning to develop annual Audit plans that focus on the top current and emerging IT risks.
Provide day-to-day project management oversight of other IT Auditors (including project guidance and coaching), setting direction, developing innovative test approaches, and reviewing work.
Be hands-on and conduct testing of highly complex technical topics with autonomy and a keen focus on the highest risk areas.
Create regular points of view on top risks, such as AI, cyber, or resiliency.
Inspire team members to innovate new ways of working to achieve results and generate meaningful insights.
Act as a source of knowledge related to technical domains and coach junior staff.
Build and maintain relationships with business partners, and provide advice and share Internal Audit knowledge with business partner managers and staff.
Ideate innovative ways of using data analytics, automation, and AI to perform testing, and help junior staff develop related skills while also executing analytics yourself.
Plan and execute audits, conduct technical testing, participate in walkthroughs, assess risks, prepare audit reports, and present findings to management.
Develop audit strategies and contribute to annual audit planning.
Coach and mentor team members and create points of view on emerging AI, cyber, and technology risks.