Risk Management Analyst Jobs in Virginia
Risk Management Analyst jobs in Virginia are in strong and steady demand, concentrated in defense contracting, financial services, federal consulting, and cybersecurity across a market that ranks among the most active on the East Coast, with openings from entry-level analyst through senior and director-level roles. The greatest concentration of hiring is in Northern Virginia, Richmond, and the Hampton Roads region, where employers like Leidos, Capital One, and Booz Allen Hamilton maintain large and enduring risk management operations. The most in-demand specialties are enterprise risk, operational risk tied to government contracting compliance, and cybersecurity risk. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Pueo is known for bringing the best talent and unique tools to every opportunity. Pueo's Parliament (aka workforce) is composed of professionals who are seeking the opportunity to work in a business organization that thrives on career development and independence. In support of mission and professional growth, our Parliament has supported the development of multiple patents, proprietary tools, and applications as well as trademarked processes.
Our organization emphasizes career development across multiple career environments (at the members own pace) and ensures those who contribute broadly are properly rewarded. Pueo has four career environments where every member of the parliament can participate. Each environment has opportunities available for all levels. Opportunities are framed by an employee's desires and capabilities, and we ensure challenges, growth, and unique experiences are available for employees at all levels.
Our Career Environments (Program, Functional, Service, and Leadership) provide numerous opportunities for employees to invest in their personal growth and those things that offer fulfillment. We invest in helping our members create and execute their career development plans. Our Pods (small teams of 5 or less) are comprised of personnel with similar skillsets to ensure mentorship, understanding, and peer support.
Role:
The GRC Lead – CIO Enterprise Risk Management Working Group serves as the Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) Lead responsible for providing strategic oversight and coordination for implementation of the Defense Intelligence Agency's enterprise cybersecurity risk management framework. This position leads the CIO Enterprise Risk Management Working Group (CERMS WG) and provides senior-level program management, governance, policy development, and stakeholder coordination supporting enterprise and system-level cybersecurity risk decisions.
The GRC Lead works closely with CIO-4 leadership, CIO-5 Strategy & Programs Office (SPO), the Chief Risk Officer (CRO), CIO Risk Owners, and stakeholders across the Agency to establish risk tolerance matrices, decision frameworks, escalation protocols, governance processes, and executive reporting mechanisms. The position facilitates enterprise consensus on cybersecurity risk management methodologies and ensures the Agency has repeatable, defensible processes for evaluating, accepting, escalating, and communicating cybersecurity risk.
Responsibilities:
- Lead implementation and maturation of the CERMS WG Charter and associated enterprise cybersecurity risk governance framework.
- Provide strategic program management and oversight for enterprise cybersecurity risk management initiatives.
- Coordinate with CIO-5 Strategy & Programs Office on strategic risk management priorities and activities.
- Develop and maintain comprehensive project plans, milestones, action items, and implementation schedules.
- Provide recurring program status, risk, and performance reporting to CIO-4 leadership.
- Coordinate stakeholder engagement across CIO organizations, SPP/DDI, Deputy Directors, J2s, Director-level leadership, and other Agency stakeholders.
- Lead development of CIO-level Administrative Instructions, governance documentation, and supporting enterprise risk management policies.
- Develop CIO-4 Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) governing cybersecurity risk tolerance decisions and supporting processes.
- Define and document escalation protocols, decision authorities, and organizational responsibilities for enterprise and system-level risk decisions.
- Coordinate policy review, adjudication, concurrence, and approval processes across Agency stakeholders.
- Guide CERMS WG meetings and facilitate executive and cross-directorate stakeholder discussions.
- Establish working group agendas in coordination with the CRO, Risk Leads, and other key stakeholders.
- Coordinate with CIO Risk Owners across divisions to ensure effective participation and execution of risk management activities.
- Facilitate consensus on enterprise cybersecurity risk methodologies, thresholds, decision processes, and reporting requirements.
- Oversee development and maintenance of enterprise risk tolerance matrices and decision-support frameworks.
- Direct development and maintenance of risk management dashboards and executive reporting mechanisms.
- Ensure effective configuration management, version control, storage, and accessibility of program artifacts.
- Maintain or oversee meeting minutes, decision records, action tracking, and governance documentation.
- Identify program risks, barriers, and competing priorities and develop strategies to maintain implementation momentum.
Skills:
- Program Management: Demonstrated ability to lead and manage complex federal programs supporting national security, defense, or intelligence missions while ensuring successful contract execution, customer satisfaction, and mission delivery.
- Enterprise Risk Management: Expert knowledge of enterprise cybersecurity risk management principles, governance structures, risk tolerance methodologies, and decision frameworks.
- Cybersecurity Governance: Deep understanding of NIST RMF, OMB A-123, DoDI 5010.40, DoDI 8510.01, ICD 503, and related federal and Intelligence Community cybersecurity governance requirements.
- Program Management: Advanced ability to plan, execute, monitor, and manage complex enterprise initiatives involving multiple organizations and executive stakeholders.
- Executive Working Group Facilitation: Expert ability to lead working groups, facilitate complex discussions, build consensus, resolve competing viewpoints, and drive decisions.
- Policy Development: Advanced experience developing Administrative Instructions, SOPs, governance frameworks, decision authorities, and other formal policy artifacts.
- Risk Tolerance and Decision Frameworks: Experience developing risk tolerance matrices, escalation criteria, decision models, and repeatable risk acceptance processes.
- Stakeholder Management: Proven ability to coordinate across directorates, senior leadership organizations, technical teams, Risk Owners, and other mission stakeholders.
- Cybersecurity Authorization: Strong understanding of Authorization to Operate (ATO) processes, cybersecurity authorization frameworks, and system-level risk.
- Executive Reporting: Experience developing dashboards, performance measures, decision-support products, and executive-level reporting mechanisms.
- Strategic Communication: Ability to translate complex cybersecurity and risk concepts into concise, actionable information for technical and non-technical executive audiences.
- Artifact Management: Experience establishing and maintaining controlled repositories, version management, decision records, meeting documentation, and audit trails.
- Organizational Change Management: Ability to implement new governance processes across complex organizations while managing stakeholder expectations and organizational change.
Qualifications:
- Twelve (12) years of relevant experience in program management, risk management, cybersecurity governance, or related disciplines.
- Minimum five (5) years of experience managing enterprise-level governance programs or cybersecurity risk management initiatives.
- Demonstrated experience coordinating cross-directorate or cross-functional stakeholders in complex organizational environments.
- Experience developing and implementing policy or governance frameworks within Government, Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, or similarly regulated environments.
- Expert knowledge of cybersecurity and enterprise risk management frameworks.
- Demonstrated experience facilitating senior or executive-level working groups.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with experience communicating to executive audiences.
Degree Requirements (if applicable):
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in Business Administration, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or a related field.
Certifications:
Preferred certifications include one or more of the following:
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC)
- Certified in Governance, Risk and Compliance (CGRC)
- Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
- Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)
- Other relevant cybersecurity, risk management, or program management certification
Desired Qualifications
- Experience supporting Intelligence Community organizations.
- Experience supporting Department of Defense cybersecurity or enterprise risk management programs.
- Familiarity with IC/DoD organizational structure, CIO organizations, and Agency decision-making processes.
- Experience implementing or supporting Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) platforms or enterprise risk management systems.
- Experience establishing risk tolerance models for large portfolios of information systems and ATOs.
- Experience developing cybersecurity governance processes for senior executive decision-making.
- Experience leading organizational change associated with implementation of new governance or risk management frameworks.
- Technical background in cybersecurity, information assurance, information systems, or related disciplines.
Pueo is an equal employment opportunity employer and affirmative action employer. All interested individuals will receive consideration and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or protected veteran status. Pueo takes affirmative action in support of its policy to advance diversity and inclusion of individuals who are minorities, women, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities.
Pueo is known for bringing the best talent and unique tools to every opportunity. Pueo's Parliament (aka workforce) is composed of professionals who are seeking the opportunity to work in a business organization that thrives on career development and independence. In support of mission and professional growth, our Parliament has supported the development of multiple patents, proprietary tools, and applications as well as trademarked processes.
Our organization emphasizes career development across multiple career environments (at the members own pace) and ensures those who contribute broadly are properly rewarded. Pueo has four career environments where every member of the parliament can participate. Each environment has opportunities available for all levels. Opportunities are framed by an employee's desires and capabilities, and we ensure challenges, growth, and unique experiences are available for employees at all levels.
Our Career Environments (Program, Functional, Service, and Leadership) provide numerous opportunities for employees to invest in their personal growth and those things that offer fulfillment. We invest in helping our members create and execute their career development plans. Our Pods (small teams of 5 or less) are comprised of personnel with similar skillsets to ensure mentorship, understanding, and peer support.
Role:
The GRC Lead – CIO Enterprise Risk Management Working Group serves as the Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) Lead responsible for providing strategic oversight and coordination for implementation of the Defense Intelligence Agency's enterprise cybersecurity risk management framework. This position leads the CIO Enterprise Risk Management Working Group (CERMS WG) and provides senior-level program management, governance, policy development, and stakeholder coordination supporting enterprise and system-level cybersecurity risk decisions.
The GRC Lead works closely with CIO-4 leadership, CIO-5 Strategy & Programs Office (SPO), the Chief Risk Officer (CRO), CIO Risk Owners, and stakeholders across the Agency to establish risk tolerance matrices, decision frameworks, escalation protocols, governance processes, and executive reporting mechanisms. The position facilitates enterprise consensus on cybersecurity risk management methodologies and ensures the Agency has repeatable, defensible processes for evaluating, accepting, escalating, and communicating cybersecurity risk.
Responsibilities:
- Lead implementation and maturation of the CERMS WG Charter and associated enterprise cybersecurity risk governance framework.
- Provide strategic program management and oversight for enterprise cybersecurity risk management initiatives.
- Coordinate with CIO-5 Strategy & Programs Office on strategic risk management priorities and activities.
- Develop and maintain comprehensive project plans, milestones, action items, and implementation schedules.
- Provide recurring program status, risk, and performance reporting to CIO-4 leadership.
- Coordinate stakeholder engagement across CIO organizations, SPP/DDI, Deputy Directors, J2s, Director-level leadership, and other Agency stakeholders.
- Lead development of CIO-level Administrative Instructions, governance documentation, and supporting enterprise risk management policies.
- Develop CIO-4 Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) governing cybersecurity risk tolerance decisions and supporting processes.
- Define and document escalation protocols, decision authorities, and organizational responsibilities for enterprise and system-level risk decisions.
- Coordinate policy review, adjudication, concurrence, and approval processes across Agency stakeholders.
- Guide CERMS WG meetings and facilitate executive and cross-directorate stakeholder discussions.
- Establish working group agendas in coordination with the CRO, Risk Leads, and other key stakeholders.
- Coordinate with CIO Risk Owners across divisions to ensure effective participation and execution of risk management activities.
- Facilitate consensus on enterprise cybersecurity risk methodologies, thresholds, decision processes, and reporting requirements.
- Oversee development and maintenance of enterprise risk tolerance matrices and decision-support frameworks.
- Direct development and maintenance of risk management dashboards and executive reporting mechanisms.
- Ensure effective configuration management, version control, storage, and accessibility of program artifacts.
- Maintain or oversee meeting minutes, decision records, action tracking, and governance documentation.
- Identify program risks, barriers, and competing priorities and develop strategies to maintain implementation momentum.
Skills:
- Program Management: Demonstrated ability to lead and manage complex federal programs supporting national security, defense, or intelligence missions while ensuring successful contract execution, customer satisfaction, and mission delivery.
- Enterprise Risk Management: Expert knowledge of enterprise cybersecurity risk management principles, governance structures, risk tolerance methodologies, and decision frameworks.
- Cybersecurity Governance: Deep understanding of NIST RMF, OMB A-123, DoDI 5010.40, DoDI 8510.01, ICD 503, and related federal and Intelligence Community cybersecurity governance requirements.
- Program Management: Advanced ability to plan, execute, monitor, and manage complex enterprise initiatives involving multiple organizations and executive stakeholders.
- Executive Working Group Facilitation: Expert ability to lead working groups, facilitate complex discussions, build consensus, resolve competing viewpoints, and drive decisions.
- Policy Development: Advanced experience developing Administrative Instructions, SOPs, governance frameworks, decision authorities, and other formal policy artifacts.
- Risk Tolerance and Decision Frameworks: Experience developing risk tolerance matrices, escalation criteria, decision models, and repeatable risk acceptance processes.
- Stakeholder Management: Proven ability to coordinate across directorates, senior leadership organizations, technical teams, Risk Owners, and other mission stakeholders.
- Cybersecurity Authorization: Strong understanding of Authorization to Operate (ATO) processes, cybersecurity authorization frameworks, and system-level risk.
- Executive Reporting: Experience developing dashboards, performance measures, decision-support products, and executive-level reporting mechanisms.
- Strategic Communication: Ability to translate complex cybersecurity and risk concepts into concise, actionable information for technical and non-technical executive audiences.
- Artifact Management: Experience establishing and maintaining controlled repositories, version management, decision records, meeting documentation, and audit trails.
- Organizational Change Management: Ability to implement new governance processes across complex organizations while managing stakeholder expectations and organizational change.
Qualifications:
- Twelve (12) years of relevant experience in program management, risk management, cybersecurity governance, or related disciplines.
- Minimum five (5) years of experience managing enterprise-level governance programs or cybersecurity risk management initiatives.
- Demonstrated experience coordinating cross-directorate or cross-functional stakeholders in complex organizational environments.
- Experience developing and implementing policy or governance frameworks within Government, Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, or similarly regulated environments.
- Expert knowledge of cybersecurity and enterprise risk management frameworks.
- Demonstrated experience facilitating senior or executive-level working groups.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with experience communicating to executive audiences.
Degree Requirements (if applicable):
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in Business Administration, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or a related field.
Certifications:
Preferred certifications include one or more of the following:
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC)
- Certified in Governance, Risk and Compliance (CGRC)
- Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
- Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)
- Other relevant cybersecurity, risk management, or program management certification
Desired Qualifications
- Experience supporting Intelligence Community organizations.
- Experience supporting Department of Defense cybersecurity or enterprise risk management programs.
- Familiarity with IC/DoD organizational structure, CIO organizations, and Agency decision-making processes.
- Experience implementing or supporting Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) platforms or enterprise risk management systems.
- Experience establishing risk tolerance models for large portfolios of information systems and ATOs.
- Experience developing cybersecurity governance processes for senior executive decision-making.
- Experience leading organizational change associated with implementation of new governance or risk management frameworks.
- Technical background in cybersecurity, information assurance, information systems, or related disciplines.
Pueo is an equal employment opportunity employer and affirmative action employer. All interested individuals will receive consideration and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or protected veteran status. Pueo takes affirmative action in support of its policy to advance diversity and inclusion of individuals who are minorities, women, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities.
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Risk Management Analyst Job Market in Virginia
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Who's Hiring
- Capital One33
- Information Technology Senior Management Forum12
- Deloitte5
- Guidehouse4
- Freddie Mac4
Top Industries Hiring
- Consulting & Professional Services
- Banking & Financial Services
What Virginia Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in risk management analyst jobs across Virginia.
- Bachelor's degree in finance, business administration, accounting, or a related field required
- Professional certification such as FRM, CRM, or CISA strongly preferred by Virginia employers
- Proficiency in risk assessment frameworks including COSO and ISO 31000
- Experience with GRC platforms such as Archer, ServiceNow, or similar enterprise tools
- Strong analytical skills with ability to interpret large datasets and present findings clearly
- Familiarity with federal regulatory requirements relevant to government contracting environments in Virginia
Risk Management Analyst Jobs in Virginia: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a risk management analyst in Virginia?
Most Virginia employers require a bachelor's degree in finance, business administration, accounting, or a quantitative field as the foundation for this role. Virginia has no state-issued license specific to risk management analysts, but widely recognized credentials such as the Financial Risk Manager (FRM), Certified Risk Manager (CRM), or Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) give candidates a clear edge, particularly with the defense contractors and financial institutions that anchor the Virginia market.
How much do risk management analysts make in Virginia?
Risk management analysts in Virginia earn a median of about $126,510 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $77,080 for the lowest 10% to over $191,720 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire risk management analysts in Virginia?
Employers hiring risk management analysts in Virginia right now include Capital One, Information Technology Senior Management Forum, and Deloitte, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of October 2026. Virginia's concentration of federal agencies, defense contractors, and major financial services headquarters means demand is distributed broadly across the state rather than confined to a single sector.
Which Virginia cities have the most risk management analyst jobs?
McLean, Richmond, and Reston account for the largest share of risk management analyst openings in Virginia. Northern Virginia's density of defense contractors and federal consulting firms drives the heaviest volume, while Richmond's financial services sector and Hampton Roads' mix of military installations and government-adjacent employers sustain consistent demand in those markets.
Are there remote risk management analyst jobs in Virginia?
Yes, and more than most fields. About 56% of risk management analyst openings tied to Virginia are remote or hybrid as of October 2026, reflecting the analytical and desk-based nature of the role. The most remote-compatible functions tend to be enterprise risk reporting, model validation, and GRC platform administration, while roles requiring cleared facility access or direct compliance auditing more often require an on-site presence.
How can I get hired as a risk management analyst in Virginia with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is moving from an adjacent role such as financial analyst, internal audit associate, or compliance coordinator into a junior risk analyst position. Large Virginia employers including Leidos, SAIC, and Capital One run formal rotational and new-graduate associate programs that place candidates in risk and compliance functions without requiring prior risk-specific titles. Pursuing a CRM or earning an entry-level cybersecurity credential like the CompTIA Security+ meaningfully strengthens applications in Virginia's defense and government contracting environment.
Where can I find and apply to risk management analyst jobs in Virginia?
You can find and apply to risk management analyst jobs in Virginia on Migrate Mate, which lists current Virginia openings updated regularly. Find roles that fit your background and apply directly to the ones that match.
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