Risk Response Activation & Assurance Lead
About The Position
The Principal Risk Response Activation & Assurance Lead role provides dedicated risk response activation and assurance capabilities across Data, Technology, and Workforce Management Risk. The position ensures validated risks are translated into effective remediation plans, controls are independently validated before closure, and residual risks are appropriately assessed and reported. The role strengthens governance, improves issue resolution quality, reduces control failures, and enables more efficient management of risk remediation across critical data, workforce, and consumer technology domains. This is an individual contributor position with no direct reports.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree (BS/BA) desired in Computer Science or Cybersecurity.
- 7+ years of related experience
- Experience in assessing, managing, and driving remediation of cybersecurity, technology, data governance, or operational risks, including the development and execution of risk treatment and risk acceptance strategies.
- Strong knowledge of data governance, data quality, access and entitlement management, control frameworks, and assurance practices, with the ability to validate remediation evidence and evaluate residual risk exposure.
- Proven ability to lead complex risk remediation initiatives and influence stakeholders across cybersecurity, technology, risk management, audit, data governance, and business organizations to achieve timely and sustainable risk reduction outcomes.
- Familiarity with applying Artificial Intelligence (AI) or Machine Learning (ML) techniques in cybersecurity contexts (e.g., anomaly detection, threat hunting, behavioral analytics, or risk scoring).
Responsibilities
- Activate validated data and workforce-related risks into structured remediation or formal acceptance pathways, ensuring rigor in data governance, data quality, entitlements, and workforce control remediation plans.
- Serves as the control-layer function for risk activation across data lifecycle controls and workforce management-related processes, validating evidence, enforcing assurance gates, and maintaining clear residual risk posture.
- Convert validated data and workforce risks into proper remediation, compensating control, or acceptance routes.
- Ensuring response pathways align to data governance, data quality, access/entitlement, or workforce control gaps.
Benefits
- Medical/Dental/Vision coverage
- 401(k) plan
- Tuition reimbursement program
- Paid Time Off and Holidays (based on date of hire, at least 23 days of vacation each year and 9 company-designated holidays)
- Paid Parental Leave
- Paid Caregiver Leave
- Additional sick leave beyond what state and local law require may be available but is unprotected
- Adoption Reimbursement
- Disability Benefits (short term and long term)
- Life and Accidental Death Insurance
- Supplemental benefit programs: critical illness/accident hospital indemnity/group legal
- Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
- Extensive employee wellness programs
- Employee discounts up to 50% off on eligible AT&T mobility plans and accessories, AT&T internet (and fiber where available) and AT&T phone
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
