Lead IT Embedded Risk Specialist

Job Description

Are you ready to make an impact at DTCC?

Do you want to work on innovative projects, collaborate with a dynamic and supportive team, and receive investment in your professional development? At DTCC, we are at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets. We're committed to helping our employees grow and succeed. We believe that you have the skills and drive to make a real impact. We foster a thriving internal community and are committed to creating a workplace that looks like the world that we serve.

Pay and Benefits:

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits
• Pension
• Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.
• DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day unique to each team or employee).

The impact you will have in this role:

As a member of the Process Risk and Governance team, the IT Risk Management Senior Associate will participate in tasks and projects from inception to completion, build relationships with IT and Business partners, and project managers while recommending process solutions and approaches that tackle the problems. This role will support and help coordinate activities across the department to drive process improvement. This position provides support to teams and management through all phases of projects to help achieve project goals.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

• Submit continuous improvements (CI) requests to the CIRT (Continuous Improvement Review Team) and provide support for submitted CI's.
• We participate in multiple domain initiatives/projects - provides governance and process support for the domain while helping to ensure adherence to internal development processes.
• We partner with other Embedded Risk Leadership and customers to identify best practices and adhere to standard processes.
• Documentation - coordinates process reviews for internal and external audits, Compliance, Risk Management & Technology assessments using the Process Risks and Controls (PRC) Framework
• Partners with control functions and other Governance Specialist to support audits & assessments. Coordinates Management Self-Identified issues and manages the Issue Management process for the domain.
• Performs Management Testing to assess control effectiveness and documents results.
• Assist in the review of standards, policies, and procedures and performs rationalization per compliance guidelines. Supports the development and maintenance of system level documentation.
• Participate in sustainability assessments and assesses adherence to regulator, business & compliance requirements and to the Process Risk and Control framework and identifies solutions to resolve control gaps to support our risk mindset.

NOTE: The Primary Responsibilities of this role are not limited to the details above.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 6 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience

Talents Needed For Success:

• Minimum of 1 years' experience in IT and/or Financial Services systems and operations; at least 1-year experience in software development preferred.
• Risk management exposure
• Change management exposure
• Ability to work autonomously and part of a global team

We offer top class training and development for you to be an asset in our organization!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

About Us

With over 50 years of experience, DTCC is the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry. From 20 locations around the world, DTCC, through its subsidiaries, automates, centralizes, and standardizes the processing of financial transactions, mitigating risk, increasing transparency, enhancing performance and driving efficiency for thousands of broker/dealers, custodian banks and asset managers. Industry owned and governed, the firm innovates purposefully, simplifying the complexities of clearing, settlement, asset servicing, transaction processing, trade reporting and data services across asset classes, bringing enhanced resilience and soundness to existing financial markets while advancing the digital asset ecosystem. In 2024, DTCC's subsidiaries processed securities transactions valued at U.S. $3.7 quadrillion and its depository subsidiary provided custody and asset servicing for securities issues from over 150 countries and territories valued at U.S. $99 trillion. DTCC's Global Trade Repository service, through locally registered, licensed, or approved trade repositories, processes more than 25 billion messages annually. To learn more, please visit us at www.dtcc.com or connect with us on LinkedIn , X , YouTube , Facebook and Instagram .

DTCC proudly supports Flexible Work Arrangements favoring openness and gives people freedom to do their jobs well, by encouraging diverse opinions and emphasizing teamwork. When you join our team, you'll have an opportunity to make meaningful contributions at a company that is recognized as a thought leader in both the financial services and technology industries. A DTCC career is more than a good way to earn a living. It's the chance to make a difference at a company that's truly one of a kind.

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About the Team

Serves as a dedicated technology resource for advancing DTCC's business opportunities and providing industry thought leadership for leveraging new technology. The goal of this new department is to partner internally with IT, our business and regulatory divisions and externally with clients, regulators, and fintech vendors, to help build new platforms and business models to advance DTCC's mission to support the financial markets.

Client-provided location(s): London, United Kingdom

Job ID: DTCC-212629

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2026-01-29T19:28:22