Technology Platform & Security Risk Partner

Overview

We have significantly matured over recent years successfully evolving the Risk Team. With our external environment becoming more demanding and our organisations strategic objectives accelerating we are expanding our footprint and broadening the scope of our deliverables. This is a truly exciting time to be joining our team.

We are now seeking a Technology Platform (TP) Risk Partner with a strong background in cloud technologies and experience in either application management or digital workplace services. This role will be key in strengthening our second line challenge across core technology domains.

Responsibilities

The Technology Platform (TP) Risk Partner will:

• Partner with our TP function joining an established team of TP Risk Partners and act as a trusted advisor and secondline challenger.
• Build and foster meaningful relationships with a wide range of internal stakeholders including Executive and Senior Management Agile Tribe Leadership Product Owners and risk practitioners across our community (banking securities fintech financial market infrastructures).
• Embed the Risk Team further into SWIFT and contribute to the development of a stronger organisationwide risk and control mindset.
• Provide clear and robust secondline challenge on complex operational risk and control assessments including selfassessments across technology platforms.
• Apply deep expertise in cloud platformsand in either application management or digital workplace servicesto assess risks controls architectural decisions service models and the resilience of technology services.
• Support continuous improvement of SWIFTs ERM framework policies processes and tools ensuring they reflect evolving technology practices and risk profiles.
• Promote operational risk culture by providing training advice and challenge in line with SWIFTs ERM framework.
• Translate risk assessment results into actionable insights and language appropriate for Executive and Senior Management governance bodies (including Board Directors) and external stakeholders.
• Track and support major business and technology projects assessing how proposed changes impact risk controls and service resilience.

Are you:

• Selfmotivated and highly organised able to manage competing priorities and work comfortably in ambiguity
• Proactive curious and creative with a growth mindset and the persistence to tackle complex challenges
• Confident providing strong independent challenge even in senior or highpressure settings
• A relationshipbuilder who collaborates well with multidisciplinary teams and subject matter experts
• Able to follow policies for the what while applying creativity and judgement to the how

Do you have:

• A university degree
• At least 8 years of relevant experience in technology risk or related fields
• Experience in fintech financial services market infrastructure or technology environments
• Strong hands-on expertise with cloud technologies (e.g. architecture governance risk resilience or operational management)
• Experience in eitherapplication management(e.g. SDLC service ownership application modernisation)or digital workplace services(e.g. endpoint services collaboration platforms identity productivity tooling)
• Solid experience intechnology risk operational risk compliance or enterprise risk management
• Interest in emerging technologies such ascloud AI robotics or quantum computing
• Experience contributing toorganisational or technology transformation initiatives
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary teams and SMEs
• Excellent communication skills including active listening clear synthesis and the ability to tailor messaging to different audiences (fluent English required)

What we offer

We give you the freedom to be yourself. We are creating an environment of unique individuals like you with different perspectives on the financial industry and the world. A diverse and inclusive environment in which everyones voice counts and where you can reach your full potential.

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Dont meet every single requirement At Swift we are dedicated to building a workplace where people can bring their full selves and ideas to the team so if you are excited about this role we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet every single qualification.