Lead Tech. Risk and Control Cloud Risk

About Northern Trust:

Northern Trust a Fortune 500 company is a globally recognized award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.

Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the worlds most successful individuals families and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service expertise and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22000 partners we serve the worlds most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

Northern Trust Technology Risk & Control function is responsible for enabling Global Information Technology to build a strong 1stLine of Defense foster a control aware culture deliver compliant and secure technology capabilities protect customers and meet regulatory Cloud Risk and Control Officer Lead is part of the Infrastructure and InfoSec Control Officer Team; responsible for embedding risk management into cloud strategy engineering and operations enabling informed risk-based decision-making aligned with Northern Trusts risk appetite. The position will drive holistic risk visibility across cloud adoption combining control effectiveness metrics and forward-looking risk insights to strengthen technology resilience and regulatory compliance. The role will work directly with Infrastructure infosec architecture and business units teams.

Major Duties :
Act as a trusted advisor to cloud engineering DevOps and platform teams on risk identification control design and risk mitigation strategies.

Provide proactive consultation during cloud adoption migration and transformation initiatives (e.g. AWS private cloud platforms).

Translate technical cloud architectures into risk narratives control expectations and residual risk assessments.

Advise and support risk and control assessments for core cloud service; including infrastructure platform and SaaS environments.

Lead remediation of findings from various sources and solves problems and timely management of open risk and control gaps

Evaluate compliance to CyberTech policies and procedures and regulatory requirements

Contribute to and enhance first-line technology risk reporting integrating metrics control effectiveness etc.

May act as Project Leader and be involved in providing assistance and training to lower level
specialists.

Skills :

Technical or audit experience in cloud security engineering and governance

Hands-on exposure to public cloud providers (AWS Azure) and cloud adoption programs

Understanding of Technology Risk & Controls across domains

Knowledge of performing risk management and industry standards NIST CRI CIS etc.

Ability to proactively assess issues identify solutions and problem solve.

Ability to understand & interact with technology subject matter experts regarding tech topics

Analytical consultative and communication skills with ability to communicate control requirements to partners in terms easily understood

Organized and time management skill with ability to produce high quality timely deliverables

Flexible approach towards changing work methods deadlines and variable workloads.

Ability to adapt and react timely and positively in a changing and dynamic work environment and keep abreast on the direction of emerging industry standards.

Knowledge Microsoft Office Suite and ability to learn new tools as needed.

Applicable industry standard certification(s) desired

Bachelor degree in Computer Science or a related discipline and technical experience in the security aspects of multiple platforms operating systems software communications and network protocols or an equivalent combination of education and work experience

Working with Us:

As a Northern Trust partner greater achievements await. You will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability is an asset that emboldens us to explore new ideas.

Movement within the organization is encouraged senior leaders are accessible and you can take pride in working for a company committed to assisting the communities we serve! Join a workplace with a greater purpose.

Wed love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the worlds most admired and sustainable companies! Build your career with us and apply today. #MadeForGreater

Reasonable accommodation

Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process please email our HR Service Center at .

We hope youre excited about the role and the opportunity to work with us. We value an inclusive workplace and understand flexibility means different things to different people.

Apply today and talk to us about your flexible working requirements and together we can achieve greater.

About Our Pune Office

The Northern Trust Pune office established in 2016 is now home to over 3000 employees. The office handles various functions including Operations for Asset Servicing and Wealth Management as well as delivering critical technology solutions that support business operations across the globe.

Our Pune team takes our commitment to service to 2024 they volunteered more than 10000 hours into the communities where they live and work. Learn more.