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Vice President, Technology Risk & Controls

BlackRock
Wilmington, DE; Edinburgh, Scotland
On-site

About this role

Job title: Vice President, Technology Risk & Controls

About the Role The Vice President, Technology Risk & Controls will help shape the future of technology risk management, control effectiveness, and resilience at BlackRock. This role operates within the Enterprise Technology Risk & Controls team to govern, measure, monitor, and reduce technology risk across a complex technology environment.

What You'll Do

  • Develop and mature technology risk and control frameworks aligned to enterprise technology risk priorities.
  • Define control objectives that articulate intended risk outcomes and ensure traceability across risks, controls, standards, metrics, issues, and remediation activities.
  • Drive policies, standards and implementation requirements; partner with stakeholders to improve clarity and usability of control requirements; ensure alignment between policy intent and operational execution.
  • Design outcome-based control effectiveness measures and develop KRIs/KPIs and forward-looking risk signals to provide visibility into technology risk exposure and resilience.
  • Identify systemic technology risk themes, translate risk findings into action plans with owners and milestones, and track remediation progress to achieve measurable risk reduction.
  • Collaborate with Engineering, Information Security, Operational Risk, Internal Audit, and senior technology leaders to support adoption, governance, and accountability across technology organizations.
  • Translate technical data into executive-level insights to inform risk governance, prioritization, and decision-making.

What We're Looking For

  • Strong experience in technology risk management, technology controls, cybersecurity, operational risk, engineering risk management, or related disciplines.
  • Deep understanding of technology control frameworks and industry standards such as NIST, COBIT, ITIL, ISO 27001, CSA CCM, or equivalent.
  • Experience developing policies, standards, control objectives, metrics, risk indicators, or technology risk frameworks.
  • Experience designing control effectiveness measures or performance measurement capabilities.
  • Strong program management, stakeholder management, and change leadership capabilities.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technology risks into clear executive-level narratives.
  • Proven ability to influence Engineering, Information Security, Risk, Audit, and business stakeholders to drive complex initiatives.
  • The ideal candidate combines deep technology risk expertise with the ability to influence large organizations and drive transformational change across strategic and operational levels.

Compensation & Benefits Salary: Not disclosed in the posting. Benefits and additional compensation details are not provided in the source.

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