Sr. Director, Tech Risk & Analysis

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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 the Senior Director, Technology Controls, you will drive the overarching strategy, execution, and modernization of our enterprise technology risk and compliance landscape. You will lead the Tech Controls organization across core operational towers—spanning product management for enterprise control platforms, assurance operations, data analytics, control performance execution, and executive reporting. In this role, you will lead the strategic transformation to shift the organization from traditional, point-in-time compliance to proactive, continuous, and automated controls monitoring. You will serve as a key visionary and execution leader in leveraging agentic AI to streamline audit, attestation, and certification workflows while advancing our enterprise technology controls health. 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 programs to mitigate evolving risks • Effectively self-challenges cyber control programs as part of first-line duties and escalates risks where appropriate • Demonstrates sound

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