Position Overview:Single Family Portfolio & Servicing is seeking a highly experienced Senior Operational Risk Lead to serve as a strategic risk advisor and integrator supporting the expansion of artificial intelligence, Generative AI, Agentic AI, cloud-based services, data platforms, and emerging technologies across the Division.
This role will be key to moving use cases from idea to production while ensuring controls are in place and risks are mitigated. The ideal candidate will partner closely with business, technology, cybersecurity, model risk, information risk, resiliency, and third-party risk teams to help enable responsible innovation while ensuring risks are appropriately identified, governed, mitigated, and monitored.
The successful candidate will bring deep technology expertise together with practical governance and risk management experience. The individual will help business leaders distinguish risks that can be engineered out through solution design, risks requiring controls and monitoring, and risks that management may consider accepting within established risk appetite and governance processes.
The role will:
- Enable responsible and timely adoption of AI and emerging technology by providing integrated technology risk guidance.
- Connect specialized risk domains into a coherent view.
- Translate complex architectures, data flows, and AI capabilities into clear business risk implications and practical mitigation options.
- Strengthen the integration of AI risk considerations into Freddie Mac governance, assessment, inventory, monitoring, and reporting processes.
Your Impact:- Serve as a senior technology risk advisor for AI, Generative AI, Agentic AI, machine learning, cloud-native solutions, APIs, and other emerging technologies.
- Support implementation and continued evolution of Freddie Mac's AI Risk Governance Framework, associated tools, templates, inventories, and monitoring practices.
- Advise business and technology teams across the AI lifecycle, from ideation and design through implementation, production use, monitoring, and material change.
- Evaluate emerging AI capabilities and identify material technology, operational, cybersecurity, data, model, resiliency, third-party, regulatory, and compliance risks.
- Execute AI risk assessments and governance reviews.
- Manage AI inventories and ensure cases progress appropriately, track costs and return on investment, metrics, key risk indicators, and executive-level reporting.
- Partner with business and technology leaders to enable responsible adoption of AI and emerging technologies.
- Facilitate risk discussions across Technology, Cybersecurity, Architecture, Legal, Compliance, Privacy, Model Risk Management, Data, Third-Party Risk, Operational Resiliency, and Operational Risk.
- Develop practical recommendations that balance innovation, customer and business value, operational effectiveness, regulatory expectations, and risk management.
- Support risk acceptance, issue identification, escalation, remediation planning, and governance decisions for material concerns.
- Communicate complex technical and risk topics in concise language appropriate for executives, governance forums, and delivery teams.
Qualifications:- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, Engineering, Data Science, Risk Management, or a related discipline, advanced degree preferred.
- 8-10 years of relevant experience in technology risk, cybersecurity risk, information or data risk, AI or model risk, technology governance, enterprise risk management, technology architecture, or a closely related field.
- Demonstrated experience evaluating APIs and integrations, identity and access management, data architectures and data flows, cloud platforms and cloud security, AI and machine learning solutions, large language models, technology resiliency, and third-party technology services.
- Strong understanding of technology control environments, secure solution design, technology lifecycle management, risk assessment, issue management, and governance practices.
- Experience advising senior leaders and presenting complex technology and risk matters in clear, decision-oriented language.
- Ability to work across organizational boundaries and influence outcomes without direct authority.
Keys to Success in this Role:- Quickly understands complex architectures, integrations, data flows, identity patterns, cloud services, and AI solution components.
- Connects multiple risk domains and identifies the risks that matter most to the decision at hand.
- Frames clear options for engineering out risk, implementing controls, monitoring residual risk, or pursuing risk acceptance.
- Converts technical detail into concise, actionable messages for senior leaders and governance forums.
- Builds alignment among delivery teams, risk partners, control functions, and deep subject matter experts.
- Operates proactively in a fast-changing environment and drives issues through resolution with disciplined follow-through.
Current Freddie Mac employees please apply through the internal career site.Time-type:Full time
FLSA Status:Exempt
Freddie Mac offers a comprehensive total rewards package to include competitive compensation and market-leading benefit programs. Information on these benefit programs is available on our Careers site.
This position has an annualized market-based salary range of $126,000 - $188,000 and is eligible to participate in the annual incentive program. The final salary offered will generally fall within this range and is dependent on various factors including but not limited to the responsibilities of the position, experience, skill set, internal pay equity and other relevant qualifications of the applicant.
