Senior Director, Cloud Architecture Risk Oversight

Capital One • McLean, VA

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About The Position

Technology & Data Risk Management (TDRM) is a small organization that packs a big punch. The ~200 professionals in TDRM are trusted experts who oversee ~14,000 developers at Capital One. We raise the bar for excellence in cybersecurity, reliability, tech risk, and data management risk. We shape strategy and decisions, challenge activities to ensure they meet our standards, and perform independent tests of our security and technology risk. For years, the cybersecurity community has debated whether the CISO should report to the CIO or not. In regulated financial services, the answer is: both. The first-line CISO has operational responsibilities and reports to the CIO. The second-line Chief Tech Risk Officer (CTRO) and the Tech & Data Risk Management (TDRM) organization have broader responsibilities for cybersecurity but also reliability, software quality, resilience, and the risk of failing to manage our data. The CTRO is independent and oversees the work of the CISO, the CIO/CTO, and the Chief Data Officer. The CTRO reports to the Chief Risk Officer, who reports directly to the CEO. Our business leaders must constantly make technology decisions. TDRM makes sure they have the tech and data risk information they need to make good decisions. Associates within TDRM are highly-skilled information security, cybersecurity, site reliability engineering, technology, data analyst, data scientist, and risk management professionals. They have a wealth of experience and a demonstrated ability to add value with their advice and to deliver high-impact results. As the Sr Director,Cloud Risk Oversight, we are looking for a hands-on technical leader, focused on public cloud architecture at enterprise scale. This is a pivotal and high-impact role responsible for shaping the strategic vision and execution across multiple functions with the ability to influence how thousands of cloud systems are designed, deployed, and governed. Technical credibility, architectural judgment, and influence are critical to success.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or military experience
• At least 5 years of public cloud experience or public cloud architecture or operations or security
• At least 10 years experience of cybersecurity, software development, architecture, or infrastructure operations

Nice To Haves

• At least 8 years direct hands on experience with Amazon Web Services architecture, operations, security, or deployments
• At least 5 years of people leadership experience
• Master’s Degree in Computer Science or in an Engineering discipline
• Experience leading large-scale migrations to the Public Cloud (i.e. Load Balancing, DNS, Interconnect, CDN, Compute, Networking, Storage, Security, Monitoring, etc.)
• Ability to communicate clearly and to interact effectively at all levels of the organization, and to influence as warranted and appropriate to drive to consensus
• Experience with identifying and communicating key risks related to cloud implementations and architectures to executives
• Familiarity with controls and control frameworks (NIST Cybersecurity Framework, NIST 800-53, CIS Top 20, ISO, COBIT)
• Prior experience working in financial services or other highly-regulated sectors

Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership: Represent the second line risk management function in many cloud and architecture councils to ensure an appropriate risk lens is applied to major cloud initiatives and strategic programs.
• Bring a passion to stay on top of cloud trends, experiment with and learn new technologies, participate in internal & external technology communities, and mentor other members of the risk management and engineering community.
• Lead a small but mighty team of trusted technical cloud risk advisors.
• Enterprise Influence: Partner broadly across the enterprise to identify and assess continually evolving threats in a fast moving and complex environment.
• You’ll advise architecture decisions and roadmaps across topics such as account segmentation and blast-radius containment, cloud-native service adoption, and cloud security posture management.
• Build and maintain relationships with technical leaders, engineers, architects, and other stakeholders to understand and evaluate implementation plans, business priorities and technical solutions to ensure risks are well communicated and understood by the key stakeholders
• Drive cloud risk prioritization: Identify cloud-specific threat scenarios (control plane vs. data plane, IAM abuse paths, service misconfiguration) and evaluate proposed and approved cloud technical solutions for automation, resiliency, scalability, and security including appropriate tradeoffs, risks and opportunities
• Draft and communicate independent reports to inform broad audiences including engineers, executives, business leaders, product managers, board of directors, and regulators on the current cloud risk environment

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director