Capital One Financial Corporation

Sr. Director- Data, Models, and AI Risk Management | Retail Bank

Capital One Financial Corporation$269K — $307K *
Finance & Insurance
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree or military experience
  • At least 10 years of experience in Technology Risk, Data Risk, or Model Risk
  • At least 8 years of People Management experience
  • 10+ years of People Management experience preferred
  • Consulting experience with a Big 4 firm preferred

Responsibilities

  • Provide oversight as a Subject Matter Expert on AI risk
  • Identify and implement enhancements in data and AI risk management
  • Assess compliance of Retail Bank Tech and Business teams
  • Collaborate with data stewardship teams on data risk evolution
  • Proactively mitigate risks by influencing stakeholders
  • Engage in AI usage lifecycle from design to monitoring
  • Deliver clear reports on data and AI risk to key stakeholders
  • Build and develop a high-performing Data and AI risk team

Benefits

  • Comprehensive and competitive health benefits
  • Financial benefits supporting total well-being
  • Inclusive benefits for various employment statuses
  • Opportunities for performance-based incentives
  • Potential for discretionary or non-discretionary cash bonuses
Full Job Description
Sr. Director- Data, Models, and AI Risk Management | Retail Bank

As a Senior Director in Capital One’s Retail Bank Division, you will apply your data risk management and technology expertise to the company’s Technology and Product organization. You will partner across Enterprise teams, Second Line of defense, and Technology teams to develop and support best-in-class industry risk identification and mitigation solutions in a manner that supports innovation and protects our customers, shareholders and associates. Collaboration with various teams will entail implementation of risk and control tools, techniques, and frameworks for the Retail Bank organization, as well as provide risk advisory services to the first line control owners. Your contributions will drive organizational change through effective and proactive risk identification, measurement, analysis and reporting in order to better manage the company’s risk in an open and collaborative environment.

This highly collaborative role will work with various stakeholders to deliver value-added risk management services to the stakeholders. You will have a high level of exposure across lines of business and have the opportunity to work with senior Tech and Business executives to create and implement innovative solutions to identify and mitigate potential risks to the Company. Proficiency in best in class critical thinking and a growth mindset is a must for this role. This individual will provide thought leadership on day to day data management processes and also provide broader thought leadership on how AI is shaping numerous other risk areas from Tech Risk to Third party risk. This individual will be responsible for building and enhancing existing risk management processes and framework to ensure that risk management is keeping pace with emerging risks.. The successful candidate will be a professional who understands various risk frameworks, control environments, technology functions, and organizations, with strong analytical, planning, strategic thinking, organizational and first rate communication skills. This role will report to the Head of Tech, Cyber, and Data Risk within the Retail Bank.

Responsibilities:

  • Provide departmental oversight and serve as a Subject Matter Expert regarding the evolution of AI risk across diverse control domains.

  • Keep pace with the speed of AI. Identify and implement continual program enhancements based on industry standards and best practices related to data and AI risk management

  • Partner with Retail Bank Tech and Business teams to assess their compliance with the divisional and enterprise data and model management requirements

  • Partner with the Managing data steward team to build a strategic point of view on evolution of data risk. Build and maintain risk oversight processes across key data risk areas including but not limited to data quality, data lineage and traceability, data transformation, and data usage in LLM and AI

  • Apply a solid understanding of control environments to proactively mitigate risks. Influence control owners and other stakeholders to build consensus on risk mitigation and remediation strategies including new risks that may be introduced with the use of AI

  • Actively engage in AI usage across the LOB across the full lifecycle including design, development, testing, deployment, post deployment monitoring. Provide thought leadership on building proactive risk management techniques.

  • Deliver clear and decision oriented report to key stakeholders and senior management on data and AI risk highlighting key issues, with proposed mitigations

  • Build a high performing Data and AI risk team by hiring and developing talent, fostering a culture of growth mindset and continuous learning, and establishing clear risk ownership across the function.

Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degreeor military experience

  • At least 10 years experience in Technology Risk, Data Risk or Model Risk

  • At least 8 years of People Management experience

Preferred Qualifications:

  • 10+ years of People Management experience

  • Experience in solving complex programs with a strategic point of view along with a solid background in flawless execution

  • Excellent verbal presentation and written communication skills to confidently interact with the cyber organization and enterprise stakeholders

  • Excellent problem-solving, analytical and critical thinking skills to effectively respond to shifting priorities, demands and timelines

  • Consulting experience with a Big 4 firm

At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.

McLean, VA: $269,600 - $307,700 for Sr. Dir, Cyber Risk & Analysis


Richmond, VA: $245,100 - $279,800 for Sr. Dir, Cyber Risk & Analysis










Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate’s offer letter.

This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at theCapital One Careers website. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.

This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.

About Capital One Financial Corporation

Chevy Chase Bank is the greater Washington region's largest locally-owned banking institution providing a complete array of financial products and services to consumers and businesses in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. The Bank, which is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, has approximately 250 branches and over 1,000 ATMs, more than anyone else in the greater Washington market. Chevy Chase Bank currently has over $16 billion in assets and services over 1 million customers. For more information about Chevy Chase Bank, please visit chevychasebank.com.

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Learn more about Capital One Financial Corporation
Size
51,500 employees
Market Cap
$34.1 billion
Industry
Net Income
$2.7 billion
Founded
1994
5 Year Trend
+2.4%
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