Requisition ID: 259185
The Director, Non Financial Risk Technology is accountable for defining and delivering the Bank's technology strategy across the non financial risk domain. The role owns the end to end oversight of non financial risk technology capabilities, ensuring that both current state processes and future state solutions are effective, scalable, resilient, and aligned with regulatory expectations.
While the enterprise Governance, Risk & Compliance (eGRC) program represents the most significant initiative under this mandate, the role also oversees adjacent non financial risk processes and technologies, including Risk & Control Self Assessment (RCSA), New Initiative Risk Assessment (NIRA), Issue Management. Until these capabilities are fully migrated to the enterprise non financial risk management system, the Director is accountable for ensuring they are fit for purpose, efficient, well controlled, and continuously enhanced.
This role partners closely with Enterprise Risk, Technology Platform teams, Architecture, Data, and external partners to drive strategic change, platform convergence, and transformation of the non financial risk technology landscape.
Is this role right for you? In this role, you will:1. Strategy, Vision & Transformation Leadership
- Act as the Technology leader to deliver the multi year transformation roadmap for the eGRC program.
- Assess the current non financial risk technology landscape, including platforms, architecture, data, delivery practices, and operating model.
- Identify strategic gaps and opportunities for simplification, modernization, scalability, and operational resilience.
- Define and communicate a clear north star vision and target state architecture aligned with non financial risk strategy and evolving regulatory expectations.
- Act as a change leader, challenging legacy approaches and driving adoption of strategic change internally and with external partners.
2. Non Financial Risk Technology Delivery & Oversight
- Lead the technology delivery and evolution of the enterprise non financial risk management system, including governance, risk, controls, issues management, and related capabilities.
- Provide oversight of critical non financial risk processes and enabling technologies, including: Risk & Control Self Assessment (RCSA), New Initiative Risk Assessment (NIRA), Issue Management.
- Ensure current state processes are effective, scalable, and well controlled while preparing them for eventual migration into the enterprise risk platform.
- Drive delivery excellence across multiple workstreams, ensuring execution quality, architectural consistency, and alignment to enterprise risk objectives.
3. Architecture, Platforms & Integration
- Own technology decision making for non financial risk platforms, including architecture standards, data models, configuration principles, and integration patterns.
- Ensure alignment with enterprise platform and data strategies, and manage dependencies across upstream and downstream systems.
- Balance out of the box platform capabilities with necessary extensions, clearly articulating trade offs and escalation paths where deviations are required.
- Partner with Architecture and Platform teams to drive convergence toward a simplified, integrated non financial risk ecosystem.
4. Stakeholder Engagement & Governance
- Act as the primary Technology partner to Enterprise Risk, Operational Risk, Compliance, Audit, and Operational Resilience stakeholders.
- Represent Technology leadership within non financial risk governance forums and steering committees.
- Provide transparency on delivery progress, architectural direction, risks, and mitigation strategies to senior Technology and Risk leadership.
5. Vendor & Partner Management
- Lead engagement with system integrators and technology vendors supporting non financial risk initiatives.
- Guide RFP and vendor selection processes, including scope definition, sequencing, cost control, and delivery governance.
- Ensure effective knowledge transfer, long term sustainability, and reduced reliance on external partners.
6. Data, Controls & Operational Readiness
- Oversee the integrity of non financial risk data, taxonomies, risk and control libraries, and reference data.
- Establish governance for configuration management, access controls, data quality, and ongoing platform sustainment.
- Support transition to steady state operations, including operating model design, training, and BAU readiness.
Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role? - We'd love to work with you if you have: - 10+ years of experience in technology leadership roles, ideally within risk, compliance, or enterprise workflow platforms.
- Strong understanding of non financial risk management frameworks, including Risk, Controls, Issue Management,..etc
- Demonstrated experience leading large scale, multi year technology transformations in complex, regulated environments.
- Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders across Technology and Risk organizations.
- Strong working knowledge of non financial risk management systems, such as ServiceNow IRM or equivalent platforms. Certifications in these tools are considered a plus.
- Experience with regulatory driven programs involving governance, controls, and auditability.
- Familiarity with enterprise architecture, data governance, or platform engineering practices.
What's in it for you?- The opportunity to join a forward-thinking and collaborative team, surrounded by innovative thinkers.
- A rewarding career path with diverse opportunities for professional development
- Internal training to support your growth and enhance your skills.
- An inclusive working environment that encourages creativity, curiosity, and celebrates success!
- The tools needed to create best-in-class student candidate experiences.
Location(s): Canada : Ontario : Toronto
