Technology Risk & Control Director – Resiliency, Third Party, and Infrastructure

Location: Charlotte, North Carolina, United States. Other listed locations include Atlanta, Georgia; Hoover, Alabama; Tupelo, Mississippi; Dallas, Texas; and Houston, Texas. Workplace type: Office.

Company

hirify.global is a regulated banking institution requiring strong technology risk, control, and operational resilience practices.

What you will do

• Lead front-line risk and control activities across technology resiliency, operational resilience, disaster recovery, third-party technology, incident response, production stability, and infrastructure.
• Lead leaders and build a high-performing team responsible for risk identification, control design and execution, issue management, reporting, and remediation.
• Partner with technology, operations, independent risk, compliance, legal, audit, and business stakeholders to strengthen control ownership and accountability.
• Oversee risk assessments, control testing outcomes, business continuity dependencies, incident management, and technology resilience activities.
• Prepare executive-ready risk assessments, regulatory responses, Board reports, issue updates, and decision papers.
• Represent the front-line risk and control perspective in senior forums and promote a consistent risk culture across the enterprise.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• At least 10 years of experience in technology, resiliency, technology risk, operational risk, or related risk and control roles.
• At least 8 years of direct front-line risk and control experience in a top-tier financial institution or other highly regulated industry.
• Experience with the three lines model and engagement with independent risk management, compliance, audit, and regulatory stakeholders.
• Experience leading leaders and senior professionals in complex, matrixed environments.
• Strong executive communication, judgment, stakeholder influence, risk assessment, issue management, remediation governance, metrics, KRI, regulatory examination, and audit engagement skills.

Nice to have

• CRISC, CISA, CISM, CISSP, CBCP, ITIL, or a similar recognized industry certification.

Culture & Benefits

• Office-based work environment with potential flexibility for some positions outside the branch network.
• Combination of in-office and work-from-home practices may be available depending on the specific arrangement provided by the hiring team.
• Collaboration with executive, regulatory, audit, risk, technology, and business stakeholders.
• Exempt position not eligible for overtime pay.