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At Freddie Mac, our mission of Making Home Possible is what motivates us, and it’s at the core of everything we do. Since our charter in 1970, we have made home possible for more than 90 million families across the country. Join an organization where your work contributes to a greater purpose.
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.
Our Impact:
At Freddie Mac, our mission of Making Home Possible drives everything we do. As we advance into an AI-powered future, we are transforming how risk management is designed, implemented, and scaled—moving from manual processes to intelligent, automated, and embedded risk capabilities.
This role is part of a next-generation initiative to reimagine risk management through AI and automation, where controls are engineered into systems, not just documented.
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.
We consider all applicants for all positions without regard to gender, race, color, religion, national origin, age, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, physical and mental disability, pregnancy, ethnicity, genetic information or any other protected categories under applicable federal, state or local laws. We will ensure that individuals 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.
A safe and secure environment is critical to Freddie Mac’s business. This includes employee commitment to our acceptable use policy, applying a vigilance-first approach to work, supporting regulatory mandates, and using best practices to protect Freddie Mac from potential threats and risk. Employees exercise this responsibility by executing against policies and procedures and adhering to privacy & security obligations as required via training programs.
CA Applicants: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
Notice to External Search Firms: Freddie Mac partners with BountyJobs for contingency search business through outside firms. Resumes received outside the BountyJobs system will be considered unsolicited and Freddie Mac will not be obligated to pay a placement fee. If interested in learning more, please visit www.BountyJobs.com and register with our referral code: MAC.
Time-type:Full time FLSA Status:ExemptFreddie 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.At Freddie Mac, our mission of Making Home Possible is what motivates us, and it’s at the core of everything we do. Since our charter in 1970, we have made home possible for more than 90 million families across the country. Join an organization where your work contributes to a greater purpose.
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.
Our Impact:
At Freddie Mac, our mission of Making Home Possible drives everything we do. As we advance into an AI-powered future, we are transforming how risk management is designed, implemented, and scaled—moving from manual processes to intelligent, automated, and embedded risk capabilities.
This role is part of a next-generation initiative to reimagine risk management through AI and automation, where controls are engineered into systems, not just documented.
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.
We consider all applicants for all positions without regard to gender, race, color, religion, national origin, age, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, physical and mental disability, pregnancy, ethnicity, genetic information or any other protected categories under applicable federal, state or local laws. We will ensure that individuals 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.
A safe and secure environment is critical to Freddie Mac’s business. This includes employee commitment to our acceptable use policy, applying a vigilance-first approach to work, supporting regulatory mandates, and using best practices to protect Freddie Mac from potential threats and risk. Employees exercise this responsibility by executing against policies and procedures and adhering to privacy & security obligations as required via training programs.
CA Applicants: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
Notice to External Search Firms: Freddie Mac partners with BountyJobs for contingency search business through outside firms. Resumes received outside the BountyJobs system will be considered unsolicited and Freddie Mac will not be obligated to pay a placement fee. If interested in learning more, please visit www.BountyJobs.com and register with our referral code: MAC.
Time-type:Full time FLSA Status:ExemptFreddie 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.See All 68 Operational Risk Analyst Jobs
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Banking & Financial Services
- Investment & Asset Management
- Fintech
- Technology & Software
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in operational risk analyst jobs.
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, or a related quantitative field
- Proficiency in risk and control self-assessment and loss data management processes
- Experience with regulatory frameworks such as Basel III, SOX, or COSO
- Strong Excel and data analysis skills, with SQL or Python experience a plus
- Professional certifications such as FRM, CRISC, or CIA preferred or required
- Minimum two to five years of experience in operational risk, audit, or compliance
Tips for Your Operational Risk Analyst Job Search
Tailor your resume to risk frameworks
Hiring managers scan for specific frameworks like Basel III, COSO, or SOX. Name the ones you've actually worked with, not just studied. Generic risk language gets filtered out fast at mid-level and senior openings.
Highlight quantifiable risk reduction outcomes
Operational risk resumes that land interviews show impact in numbers, such as reduced incident frequency, improved control testing coverage, or audit findings closed on time. Vague phrases like 'supported risk programs' won't differentiate you from dozens of other applicants.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists operational risk analyst openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Filter openings by industry alignment
Operational risk means different things in a community bank versus a global insurer versus a payments startup. Target roles in sectors where you've built domain knowledge, because interviewers will probe your understanding of industry-specific loss events and control environments.
Prepare a scenario-based interview answer bank
Expect behavioral questions tied to real risk events: a control failure you identified, a process you redesigned after a near-miss, or how you handled pushback from a business line. Write out two or three concrete examples before your first screen call.
Negotiate using total compensation context
Operational risk roles at financial institutions often include performance bonuses tied to audit outcomes or regulatory standing. When negotiating, ask the recruiter to break down variable pay, signing bonus eligibility, and certification reimbursement separately before comparing offers.
Operational Risk Analyst Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most operational risk analysts?
The most active employers for operational risk analysts right now are JPMorganChase, Citi, and Capital One, and the most openings are in Texas, New York, and Virginia, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Financial services firms and large insurers tend to maintain the deepest ongoing demand for this role.
How many operational risk analyst jobs are remote?
About 73% of operational risk analyst openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting the analytical and policy-driven nature of much of the work. Sub-areas like model risk review, policy writing, and regulatory reporting are most likely to allow remote arrangements, while roles with heavy business line liaison or audit committee responsibilities tend to require more in-office presence.
How do you become an operational risk analyst?
Start with a bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, risk management, or a quantitative field, then gain early experience in audit, compliance, or financial controls. Earning a professional credential like the FRM or CRISC signals technical commitment to hiring managers. Build familiarity with control frameworks like COSO or Basel III through coursework or on-the-job exposure, and practice communicating risk findings clearly in writing, since reporting is a core daily responsibility.
Can you get an operational risk analyst job with little experience?
Yes, entry-level operational risk analyst roles exist, particularly at large banks and insurance firms that run structured analyst programs. Candidates with internships in audit, compliance, or financial controls, combined with demonstrated knowledge of risk frameworks, are competitive. Highlighting coursework in quantitative risk, any exposure to control testing, and a relevant certification in progress can offset limited direct work history when applying to junior openings.
What does the operational risk analyst interview process look like?
Most processes run three to four stages. An initial recruiter screen assesses background and culture fit, followed by a technical interview covering risk frameworks, control assessment methodology, and scenario-based questions about past risk events. A final round often includes a case study or writing exercise, such as drafting a risk memo or evaluating a hypothetical control failure. Senior candidates may also present to a risk committee or department head.
Where can I find and apply to operational risk analyst jobs?
You can find and apply to operational risk analyst jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search for roles that match your experience level, industry background, and preferred location, then apply directly to each listing that fits.
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