Requisition Id : 1637513
Role Summary:The Technical Risk Advisor, Specialist role provides operational risk expertise and guidance to support divisions, offering assurance services and maintaining risk frameworks. The role also prevents IT-related crimes, designs secure systems, performs risk assessments, and implements security measures to protect data and ensure business continuity.Roles & Responsibilities:Provide risk guidance, oversight, and assurance services to enterprise and divisional partners based on Vanguard's operational and strategic risk framework. Provides expert level IT technical risk advice and direction for critical software, middleware, or hardware projects on multiple platforms.Manages the efficiency and effectiveness of technical risk management within the business. Sets measurable goals and examines ways to raise standards, to increase quality and to improve overall technical risk management efforts of the team. Monitors progress and measures departmental success in identifying and managing risk exposure.Provides technical risk and architecture thought leadership and expertise. Leads and assists the business in the development, implementation and management of short- and long-term technical risk management strategies in accordance with department goals and objectives as well as standard risk management policies and procedures.Works with the business to mitigate risks and optimize process efficiency. Uses IT industry best practice knowledge to design effective controls, and makes recommendations for developing new technical risk management strategies for the business. Provides consultation, facilitation and analytical support to the divisional management team as new products, services, processes and procedures are developed to ensure risk is properly mitigated. Identifies potential solutions and recommends development options.Develops strong relationships with enterprise and divisional clients to understand their ongoing risk needs. Builds credibility as a thought partner, and effectively persuades and influences others.Assesses the design of existing controls and make recommendations, leverages industry best practice for improvement as needed. Understands the risk management framework and utilizes the core concepts when discussing risk exposures with the business. Identifies and advises on opportunities for continuous quality improvement of technical standards, methodologies, and technologies.Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.Focus on preventing IT-related crimes, hacking and the modification, disclosure, or destruction of organizational data and IT assets, including intellectual property.Design, implement and test secure operating systems, networks and databases to safeguard organizational infrastructure and sensitive information.Perform thorough risk audits and assessments, offering actionable recommendations for secure application design and infrastructure improvement.Plan and implement security measures for system backups and disaster recovery, ensuring business continuity in case of system failure or security incidents.
