Senior Lead Technology Risk Officer Application Domain, SDLC, DevOps and AI

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About this role:

The Application Risk Domain Officer operates within Technology Risk Management (TRM) part of Corporate Risk providing independent secondline oversight across application domains. The role is part of the Information Security and Application Risk Domain Team which performs domainlevel evaluation and produces evidencebased views of how application conditions contribute to enterprise risk exposure. The role engages with Technology including Tech Operations CIO organizations to provide challenge and inform riskbased decisions. Outputs from this role support enterprise risk views provided to senior management risk committees and regulators.

The Application Risk Domain Officer (P5) serves as the senior second line oversight lead across assigned domains and is a deeply technical individual contributor who provides expert second-line risk oversight across modern software engineering environments and has responsibility across the application risk domain. This role requires hands-on understanding of secure SDLC CI/CD infrastructure as code cloud-native platforms developer tooling software supply chain controls and AI-enabled engineering workflows.

The role is responsible for setting direction for domain-level risk assessment and monitoring approaches identifying and assessing plausible failure modes and evaluating how those failures contribute to enterprise technology risk exposure. An individual in this role must be able to engage engineering teams with technical credibility serve as a thought leader and partner closely with first-line engineering and technology teams to de-construct complex delivery patterns into concrete risk and control considerations and translate technical observations into clear decision-ready risk insight for senior stakeholders.

In this role you will:

• Provide expert second-line oversight of modern engineering practices including application architecture patterns secure SDLC CI/CD DevSecOps platform engineering infrastructure as code containerized workloads and production release controls.

• Own second-line technology risk coverage and provide thought leadership across the application risk domain partnering closely with first-line engineering controls and technology teams to drive consistent oversight of application architecture development practices deployment pipelines and supporting engineering controls.

• Perform technically rigorous assessments of source control workflows branching strategies build systems test automation artifact repositories package dependencies deployment orchestration and runtime platform configurations to identify control weaknesses and systemic risk.

• Evaluate the integrity of software delivery pipelines end to end including code provenance pipeline trust boundaries secrets handling approval models environment segregation artifact immutability and rollback or recovery capabilities.

• Lead deep-dive technical risk reviews of complex delivery environments and modernization programs converting architecture pipeline and operational observations into clear risk statements root causes and targeted remediation expectations.

• Analyze developer ecosystems and engineering tool chains at a practitioner level including repositories CI runners build agents package managers IaC frameworks containers Kubernetes cloud services and observability stacks.

• Evaluate AI-enabled engineering capabilities including code assistants prompt-based development workflows automated test generation agentic tooling and model-integrated developer platforms with emphasis on data exposure unsafe code generation traceability and human review requirements.

• Review design and implementation patterns for application and platform controls such as policy-as-code secrets management service identity environment hardening logging monitoring drift detection and release gating.

• Develop technically meaningful risk indicators and challenge metrics for SDLC DevOps and AI-enabled engineering such as deployment control exceptions pipeline bypasses privileged access patterns dependency exposure control coverage gaps and remediation aging.

• Serve as a trusted technical risk partner to engineering security architecture and control teams by applying expert discipline knowledge to high-impact decisions and shaping resilient engineering practices across the enterprise.

Required Qualifications:

• 7 years of Technology Risk experience or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience training military experience education.

Desired Qualifications:

• 7 years of experience spanning software engineering DevSecOps platform engineering cloud engineering application security with direct experience in technology risk technology controls or second-line risk oversight in complex technological environments.

• Deep hands-on knowledge of modern SDLC and DevOps practices including source control code review branching and release strategies CI/CD design automated testing deployment automation and production change controls.

• Experience performing technical risk assessments control evaluations and credible challenge across SDLC DevOps software supply chain cloud and AI-enabled engineering environments to translate findings into concise risk narratives control gaps remediation expectations and executive reporting.

• Ability to read and interpret architecture patterns deployment designs control implementations technical standards and engineering evidence with sufficient depth to challenge first-line technical decisions.

• Experience with AI governance and controls or model risk concepts as applied to engineering productivity tools agentic workflows or AI-assisted software delivery and the risks associated with them.

• Strong judgment analytical rigor and communication skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders while maintaining credibility with technical teams.

• Knowledge of industry frameworks and guidance relevant to technology and security risk such as NIST SSDF COBIT FFIEC guidance ISO 27001 or similar frameworks.

• Strong technical understanding of developer platforms and engineering toolchains including technologies such as GitHub or GitLab Jenkins or Azure DevOps artifact repositories package managers Terraform containers Kubernetes and major cloud platforms.

• Hands-on familiarity with engineering and security tooling used in modern delivery environments including static and dynamic analysis software composition analysis container security CSPM CI/CD security controls and observability platforms.

• Prior experience in financial services highly regulated environments or large-scale enterprise engineering organizations with complex control and resilience expectations.

• Relevant certifications such as CISSP CISM CRISC CISA CCSP cloud provider certifications Kubernetes certifications or secure software lifecycle credentials.

• Experience evaluating or implementing controls for secure build systems software supply chain security policy-as-code secrets management release orchestration and cloud-native delivery pipelines.

• Demonstrated expertise assessing build and release integrity secrets management privileged automation infrastructure as code and runtime control effectiveness in complex engineering environments.

Job Expectations:

• Willingness to work on-site at stated location on the job opening.

• This position offers a hybrid work schedule.

• This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship.

Posting Locations:

401 S Tryon St Charlotte NC

North Carolina Charlotte Pay Range: $159000.00 - 254000.00 USD Annually

Posting End Date:

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

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Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit Market Financial Crimes Operational Regulatory Compliance) which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring governance risk identification and escalation as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business units risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.

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