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About Us
Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.
At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world.
Join Visa and do work that matters – to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you.
Job Description
The Global Technology Risk team provides independent second-line oversight of technology availability, reliability, operational resilience, and recovery capabilities across Visa's critical services and infrastructure. The team partners closely with Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Architecture, Incident Management, Business Continuity, and Technology Risk stakeholders globally to assess and strengthen the resiliency of Visa's technology ecosystem.
This role combines deep technical expertise with technology risk management to evaluate whether critical systems are designed, operated, monitored, and recovered within established service objectives and risk tolerances. The successful candidate will be capable of translating complex technical risks into meaningful business impacts while providing independent challenge and oversight of engineering controls and resilience practices.
The ideal candidate possesses hands-on experience supporting large-scale distributed systems and production environments and can effectively assess technology risks using technical evidence and data-driven analysis.
Key Responsibilities
Availability & Reliability Risk Oversight
- Independently assess availability, reliability, and resilience risks across critical services, cloud platforms, infrastructure, applications, and third-party dependencies.
- Evaluate technology risks in relation to service criticality, customer impact, operational resilience requirements, and Visa's risk appetite.
- Provide effective challenge and oversight of engineering processes, reliability practices, and control effectiveness.
Risk Assessment & Control Assurance
- Develop and execute risk-based assurance reviews focused on availability, reliability, and operational resilience controls.
- Assess both design adequacy and operating effectiveness of technology controls using objective technical evidence.
- Define testing methodologies, sampling approaches, evidence requirements, and assessment criteria.
- Review system configurations, telemetry, deployment records, incident data, recovery testing results, and operational metrics to validate control performance.
- Use scripting, automation, and data analysis techniques to support repeatable testing and evidence-based conclusions.
- Document findings, assess residual risk, and validate remediation activities through closure.
Incident Learning & Recovery Assurance
- Review significant service disruptions, recurring incidents, near misses, and post-incident analyses.
- Evaluate the quality of root cause analysis, contributing factors, customer impact assessments, and corrective action plans.
- Assess disaster recovery, resilience testing, and recovery-exercise outcomes to ensure alignment with recovery objectives and resilience expectations.
Reliability Metrics & Risk Reporting
- Define, monitor, and report key risk indicators (KRIs) and reliability metrics related to service availability and operational resilience.
- Assess trends related to SLO attainment, outage frequency and duration, error-budget consumption, recovery performance, change failure rates, capacity utilization, and control deficiencies.
- Prepare executive-level reporting and risk insights for technology governance forums, senior leadership, and risk committees.
- Communicate business exposure, emerging risks, remediation progress, and reliability trends in a clear and concise manner.
AI-Enabled Risk Analysis & Assurance
- Leverage approved AI and automation capabilities to improve analysis of incident data, control evidence, technical documentation, and testing activities.
- Validate AI-generated outputs through independent review and source evidence verification.
- Ensure appropriate governance, traceability, data protection, and human accountability within AI-supported assurance processes.
Stakeholder Engagement
- Build effective partnerships across Engineering, SRE, Architecture, Cybersecurity, Business Continuity, and Technology Risk teams.
- Influence stakeholders to strengthen reliability, resilience, and control maturity across critical technology services.
- Provide subject matter expertise and independent challenge during risk reviews, resilience assessments, and remediation discussions.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications
- 8 or more years of relevant work experience with a bachelor’s degree, OR 5 or more years of relevant work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g., Master's, MBA, JD, MD), OR 2 or more years of work experience with a PhD, OR 11 or more years of relevant work experience.
- Hands-on experience in Software Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Production Engineering, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or a comparable role supporting business-critical systems.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, networking, databases, cloud infrastructure, observability platforms, service dependencies, high availability architectures, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery.
- Experience conducting technology risk assessments and evaluating the effectiveness of technical controls.
- Demonstrated ability to perform control testing, evidence evaluation, issue documentation, and remediation validation.
- Proficiency with scripting or data analysis tools such as Python, SQL, or equivalent technologies.
- Ability to interpret operational telemetry, reliability metrics, and technical evidence to assess risks and control effectiveness.
- Practical understanding of AI-assisted analysis and automation techniques, including associated risks such as hallucinations, bias, and data leakage.
- Strong written, verbal, and executive-level communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting highly available, large-scale production environments and critical customer-facing services.
- Experience participating in incident response, post-incident reviews, reliability engineering initiatives, capacity planning, resilience testing, or disaster recovery exercises.
- Experience independently presenting risk assessments and evidence-based findings to senior engineering leaders, risk committees, auditors, or regulators.
- Working knowledge of industry frameworks such as NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF), NIST SP 800-53, ISO 27001, ISO 22301, COBIT, or related operational resilience standards.
- Experience applying risk and resilience frameworks to technical environments beyond compliance-based assessments.
- Experience in payments, financial services, fintech, or other highly regulated industries.
- Experience assessing cloud-native architectures and large-scale distributed technology platforms.
- Experience applying AI, automation, or analytics capabilities to technology risk management, engineering analysis, or control assurance activities.
- Experience working within a global matrixed organization.
Information for US Applicants
Work Hours
Varies upon the needs of the department.
Travel Requirements
This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.
Mental/Physical Requirements
This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.
Visa is an EEO Employer
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protect veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.About Us
Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.
At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world.
Join Visa and do work that matters – to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you.
Job Description
The Global Technology Risk team provides independent second-line oversight of technology availability, reliability, operational resilience, and recovery capabilities across Visa's critical services and infrastructure. The team partners closely with Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Architecture, Incident Management, Business Continuity, and Technology Risk stakeholders globally to assess and strengthen the resiliency of Visa's technology ecosystem.
This role combines deep technical expertise with technology risk management to evaluate whether critical systems are designed, operated, monitored, and recovered within established service objectives and risk tolerances. The successful candidate will be capable of translating complex technical risks into meaningful business impacts while providing independent challenge and oversight of engineering controls and resilience practices.
The ideal candidate possesses hands-on experience supporting large-scale distributed systems and production environments and can effectively assess technology risks using technical evidence and data-driven analysis.
Key Responsibilities
Availability & Reliability Risk Oversight
- Independently assess availability, reliability, and resilience risks across critical services, cloud platforms, infrastructure, applications, and third-party dependencies.
- Evaluate technology risks in relation to service criticality, customer impact, operational resilience requirements, and Visa's risk appetite.
- Provide effective challenge and oversight of engineering processes, reliability practices, and control effectiveness.
Risk Assessment & Control Assurance
- Develop and execute risk-based assurance reviews focused on availability, reliability, and operational resilience controls.
- Assess both design adequacy and operating effectiveness of technology controls using objective technical evidence.
- Define testing methodologies, sampling approaches, evidence requirements, and assessment criteria.
- Review system configurations, telemetry, deployment records, incident data, recovery testing results, and operational metrics to validate control performance.
- Use scripting, automation, and data analysis techniques to support repeatable testing and evidence-based conclusions.
- Document findings, assess residual risk, and validate remediation activities through closure.
Incident Learning & Recovery Assurance
- Review significant service disruptions, recurring incidents, near misses, and post-incident analyses.
- Evaluate the quality of root cause analysis, contributing factors, customer impact assessments, and corrective action plans.
- Assess disaster recovery, resilience testing, and recovery-exercise outcomes to ensure alignment with recovery objectives and resilience expectations.
Reliability Metrics & Risk Reporting
- Define, monitor, and report key risk indicators (KRIs) and reliability metrics related to service availability and operational resilience.
- Assess trends related to SLO attainment, outage frequency and duration, error-budget consumption, recovery performance, change failure rates, capacity utilization, and control deficiencies.
- Prepare executive-level reporting and risk insights for technology governance forums, senior leadership, and risk committees.
- Communicate business exposure, emerging risks, remediation progress, and reliability trends in a clear and concise manner.
AI-Enabled Risk Analysis & Assurance
- Leverage approved AI and automation capabilities to improve analysis of incident data, control evidence, technical documentation, and testing activities.
- Validate AI-generated outputs through independent review and source evidence verification.
- Ensure appropriate governance, traceability, data protection, and human accountability within AI-supported assurance processes.
Stakeholder Engagement
- Build effective partnerships across Engineering, SRE, Architecture, Cybersecurity, Business Continuity, and Technology Risk teams.
- Influence stakeholders to strengthen reliability, resilience, and control maturity across critical technology services.
- Provide subject matter expertise and independent challenge during risk reviews, resilience assessments, and remediation discussions.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications
- 8 or more years of relevant work experience with a bachelor’s degree, OR 5 or more years of relevant work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g., Master's, MBA, JD, MD), OR 2 or more years of work experience with a PhD, OR 11 or more years of relevant work experience.
- Hands-on experience in Software Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Production Engineering, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or a comparable role supporting business-critical systems.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, networking, databases, cloud infrastructure, observability platforms, service dependencies, high availability architectures, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery.
- Experience conducting technology risk assessments and evaluating the effectiveness of technical controls.
- Demonstrated ability to perform control testing, evidence evaluation, issue documentation, and remediation validation.
- Proficiency with scripting or data analysis tools such as Python, SQL, or equivalent technologies.
- Ability to interpret operational telemetry, reliability metrics, and technical evidence to assess risks and control effectiveness.
- Practical understanding of AI-assisted analysis and automation techniques, including associated risks such as hallucinations, bias, and data leakage.
- Strong written, verbal, and executive-level communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting highly available, large-scale production environments and critical customer-facing services.
- Experience participating in incident response, post-incident reviews, reliability engineering initiatives, capacity planning, resilience testing, or disaster recovery exercises.
- Experience independently presenting risk assessments and evidence-based findings to senior engineering leaders, risk committees, auditors, or regulators.
- Working knowledge of industry frameworks such as NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF), NIST SP 800-53, ISO 27001, ISO 22301, COBIT, or related operational resilience standards.
- Experience applying risk and resilience frameworks to technical environments beyond compliance-based assessments.
- Experience in payments, financial services, fintech, or other highly regulated industries.
- Experience assessing cloud-native architectures and large-scale distributed technology platforms.
- Experience applying AI, automation, or analytics capabilities to technology risk management, engineering analysis, or control assurance activities.
- Experience working within a global matrixed organization.
Information for US Applicants
Work Hours
Varies upon the needs of the department.
Travel Requirements
This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.
Mental/Physical Requirements
This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.
Visa is an EEO Employer
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protect veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.Technology Risk Consultant Jobs by Experience Level
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in technology risk consultant jobs.
- Three to five years of experience in technology risk, IT audit, or information security
- Hands-on knowledge of risk frameworks such as NIST, COBIT, or ISO 27001
- CISA, CRISC, CISSP, or equivalent professional certification preferred or required
- Experience conducting IT general controls testing or SOC 2 readiness assessments
- Ability to communicate risk findings clearly to both technical teams and executive stakeholders
- Bachelor's degree in information systems, computer science, accounting, or a related field
Tips for Your Technology Risk Consultant Job Search
Align your resume to frameworks
Technology risk consultant roles prioritize candidates who can name the frameworks they've worked in. Call out your hands-on experience with NIST, COBIT, ISO 27001, or SOC 2 explicitly in your work history, not buried in a skills list.
Lead with regulatory domain expertise
Hiring managers in financial services look for domain-specific risk experience, not general IT knowledge. If you've worked in environments governed by DORA, FFIEC, or PCI-DSS, name those regulations directly in your summary and in relevant roles.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists technology risk consultant openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target postings by engagement model
Some postings are for in-house risk functions, others for client-facing consulting. The interview process and expected skills differ sharply. Read the job description for client travel requirements or billable-hour language to identify which type you're applying to before you tailor your materials.
Prepare a controls testing case study
Interviewers for technology risk roles frequently ask you to walk through a past risk assessment or controls gap analysis. Prepare a concise, two-minute narrative that covers scope, methodology, findings, and remediation outcome without disclosing client-confidential details.
Negotiate with certification timelines in mind
If you're close to completing a CISA, CRISC, or CISSP certification, disclose that during offer negotiations. Many employers factor pending credentials into leveling decisions, and naming a concrete exam date strengthens your case for a higher band.
Technology Risk Consultant Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most technology risk consultants?
EY, Crowe, and Visa are hiring the most technology risk consultants right now, with openings concentrated in New York, Texas, and Georgia, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Demand is highest at large professional services firms and financial institutions building out dedicated technology risk functions.
How many technology risk consultant jobs are remote?
About 100% of technology risk consultant openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, with the highest remote share in advisory and assessment roles that don't require on-site client work. Roles tied to continuous monitoring, GRC platform management, and third-party risk review are particularly well-represented in remote listings.
How do you become a technology risk consultant?
Start with a degree in information systems, computer science, accounting, or a related field, then gain experience in IT audit, information security, or internal controls. Earning a CISA or CRISC certification significantly strengthens your profile. From there, focus on building practical exposure to risk framework implementation and regulatory compliance work, either inside a company or through a consulting firm.
Can you get a technology risk consultant job with little experience?
Entry-level technology risk consultant roles exist, particularly at large consulting firms that hire analysts and train them on the job. Your strongest path in with limited experience is to demonstrate familiarity with at least one risk framework, complete an entry-level certification like the CompTIA Security+, and highlight any coursework, internships, or project work involving controls, audits, or compliance documentation.
What does the technology risk consultant interview process look like?
Most processes run three to four rounds. An initial screening call with a recruiter is followed by a technical interview covering risk frameworks, controls methodology, and regulatory knowledge. Later rounds typically include a case study or take-home scenario where you assess a mock IT environment and present findings. Final rounds often involve a panel with senior consultants or practice leads who probe your client communication and stakeholder management experience.
Where can I find and apply to technology risk consultant jobs?
You can find and apply to technology risk consultant jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Find roles that match your experience and specialization, then apply directly to each listing from the page.
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