Senior Enterprise Risk Analyst (Remote From Anywhere In CO)

Salary: $110,000.00 - $120,000.00 Annually
Location : Statewide, CO
Job Type: Full Time
Job Number: EGB92761
Department: Governor's Office of Information Technology
Opening Date: 10/28/2026
Closing Date: 11/8/2026 11:59 PM Mountain
FLSA: Determined by Position
Primary Physical Work Address: (Remote From Anywhere In CO)
FLSA Status: Exempt; position is not eligible for overtime compensation.
Department Contact Information:
Type of Announcement: This announcement is not governed by the selection processes of the classified personnel system. Applications will be considered from residents and non-residents of Colorado.
How To Apply: Please submit an online application for this position at https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/colorado. Reach out to the Department Contact to apply using a paper application, including any supplemental questions. Failure to submit a complete and timely application may result in the rejection of your application. Applicants are responsible for ensuring that application materials are received by the appropriate Human Resources office before the closing date and time listed.

Description of Job
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The Governor's Office of Information Technology (OIT) is seeking a Senior Enterprise Risk Analyst to operationalize the enterprise risk management program across OIT and the state agencies it supports. In this role, you will translate established risk management methodology into defined processes, procedures, governance arrangements, and workflows connecting system-level risk assessments, the Enterprise Risk Register, remediation plans, policy exceptions, vendor and third-party risk, and enterprise risk reporting. You will establish standards for documenting, maintaining, and sharing risk information to ensure clear accountability, evidence traceability, and appropriate consideration of system-level findings in enterprise decisions.
Additionally, you will identify gaps in existing practices, drive workflow improvements and data requirements-including building out integration and automation through ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management (IRM)-and support the enterprise risk management roadmap to build a consistent, scalable, and evidence-based risk management capability across the organization.
Essential Functions:

• Risk Methodology and Process Implementation: Translate the established enterprise risk management methodology into practical procedures, guidance, templates, and workflows. Define how risks are identified, documented, assessed, prioritized, reviewed, and escalated, and how supporting processes operate consistently across OIT and the agencies it supports.
  Outcome - Documented and repeatable risk management processes that support consistent implementation of the established methodology.
• Risk Assessment and Enterprise Risk Integration: Establish the processes that connect system-level risk assessments with the Enterprise Risk Register, remediation plans, policy exceptions, and enterprise risk reporting. Define how assessment findings, ownership, residual risk, and supporting evidence are recorded, linked, and escalated, working with technical risk specialists to preserve system-level context and identify material or systemic concerns. Analyze assessment findings, identify material risks and information gaps, and recommend risk priorities and actions.
  Outcome - A traceable, evidence-based process for connecting system-level findings to enterprise risk decisions, with clear ownership, documented limitations, and actionable recommendations.
• Risk Governance and Accountability: Document and clarify risk management roles, responsibilities, decision rights, approval requirements, escalation paths and handoffs. Review relevant policies, standards, procedures and assurance activities to identify gaps or duplication, and recommend improvements to the Risk Standard and supporting guidance.
  Outcome - Clearer governance arrangements and accountability for risk management decisions and activities.

• Risk Information and Reporting: Define information requirements, data ownership, evidence requirements, and refresh cycles for risk assessments, the Enterprise Risk Register, remediation activities, policy exceptions, and enterprise risk reporting. Identify data quality, availability, and integration gaps, and establish reporting requirements that support reliable, evidence-based risk analysis and decision-making.
  Outcome - Defined information requirements and reliable, traceable risk information to support enterprise risk reporting and decision-making.
• Workflow Automation and Process Improvement: Analyze risk management processes to identify manual activities, duplication, bottlenecks and opportunities for automation. Translate established risk methodologies, policies and governance requirements into business rules, functional requirements and repeatable workflows, including through ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management (IRM). Collaborate with technical and data teams to design, test and refine automated processes, ensuring that workflows preserve required approvals, accountability, evidence and traceability.
  Outcome - More efficient, consistent and traceable risk management workflows, with reduced manual effort and improved visibility of the enterprise risk management program.

• Risk Program Implementation and Continuous Improvement: Support implementation of the enterprise risk management roadmap by coordinating activities, tracking milestones and dependencies, identifying barriers and preparing recommendations for decisions. Evaluate the effectiveness of implemented processes and recommend improvements based on operational experience, assessment findings, audits, and evolving program requirements.
  Outcome - Measurable progress in implementing and improving the enterprise risk management program.

Minimum Qualifications, Substitutions, Conditions of Employment & Appeal Rights

A wide salary range is posted for this position and any job offer is based upon a salary analysis to comply with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act. The salary analysis considers relevant experience, education, certifications, and state seniority as compared to others doing substantially similar work. While all offers are compliant with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, there is no guarantee an offer will be at the top of the posted range based on the salary analysis.

This is a skills-based job announcement. The required minimum qualifications and/or education (if substituting for the proven experience, knowledge, and skills), are as follows:
Minimum Qualifications:

• At least five (5) years of professional experience in enterprise risk management, information security governance, IT compliance, IT audit, risk program implementation, or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience developing, implementing or improving risk management, compliance, audit or assurance processes, including procedures, governance arrangements, documentation and accountability mechanisms.

Substitutions:

• Additional appropriate education will substitute for the required experience on a year-for-year basis, but cannot completely substitute for these qualifications.
• Training or Certification related to the work assigned to the position will be assigned credit towards substitution for experience and/or education, but cannot completely substitute for these qualifications.
• If the minimum qualifications include a degree requirement, additional appropriate paid or unpaid experience will substitute for the required education on a year-for-year basis.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience analyzing business processes and translating policy, regulatory, or program requirements into operational procedures, repeatable workflows, or system requirements.
• Demonstrated experience working across technical and business teams to implement processes, resolve issues, and support management decisions.
• Demonstrated experience analyzing business processes and translating policy, regulatory or program requirements into operational procedures, repeatable workflows or system requirements.
• Demonstrated experience using ServiceNow IRM or GRC tool.
• Demonstrated experience working across technical and business teams to implement processes, resolve issues and support management decisions.
• Relevant professional training or certifications, such as CISSP, CRISC or CISA, may receive substitution credit toward experience or education requirements but may not completely substitute for the required experience.

Conditions of Employment:
OIT employees must comply with any screening procedures in place at state agency locations where they might perform work.

A pre-employment background check will be conducted as part of the selection process. Post-employment background checks will be required for specific agencies as business needs dictate, which may include a polygraph exam, fingerprint-based criminal history search, reference checks, and a drug test.

This position may require travel within the specified geographic area, and to locations across the state as needed.

Supplemental Information
If this posting indicates "remote from anywhere in CO" in the title, periodic reporting to the primary state work location designated for the position is required. All remote work must be performed in Colorado.

While candidates from out of state will be considered for this role, the candidate selected for the position must relocate and reside in Colorado on the first day of their new position. A reasonable timeframe for relocation will be established on an individual basis, while considering business needs, and determining a start date.
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Which cybersecurity risk frameworks (e.g., NIST SP 800-53, ISO 27001, SOC 2, FAIR) have you actively implemented to assess and manage enterprise risk? Please detail your level of experience with each.
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Detail your experience standing up a risk program, components of a risk program, or risk tool (i.e. risk assessment process, risk register process)?
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Describe a time you developed, improved, or connected processes to make work more effective. What did you change, and what was the result?
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Please describe how you learned of this job opening.
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The Governor's Office of Information Technology (OIT) complies with Colorado's Equal Pay for Equal Work Act. While a wide salary range is posted, specific criteria (experience, education, state seniority, etc.) will be used to determine any salary offer. While most salary offers are made within the posted range, occasionally an offer is made below or above the posted range based upon this salary analysis. It is this s