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Job Details: Role: Cloud Risk and Compliance Manager Location: Jersey City, NJ/ Irving, TX

Job Overview: We are seeking a Cloud Risk and Compliance Manager to lead our cloud governance, risk assessment, and compliance efforts. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in identifying and assessing risks, negotiating cloud-friendly policy changes, and ensuring compliance with regulations and policies in a cloud environment.

Key Responsibilities:

Risk Identification and Assessment: Identify risk, assess residual risk, and coordinate Corrective Action Plan (CAP) completion through collaboration with information security and engineering teams.

Policy Negotiation and Application: Negotiate with IA (Internal Audit) and ORM (Operational Risk Management) to influence cloud-friendly policy changes. Advise engineers on the application of policy across multiple concurrent technology domains such as compute, container, DB, middleware, etc.

Regulatory Compliance and Advocacy: Research origins of policy in regulations collaboratively with ICRM (Independent Compliance Risk Management). Engage with and lead advocacy efforts with regulators in Asia and EMEA on Public Cloud in partnership with Government Affairs and Regulatory Engagement teams.

Cloud Service Governance and Maintenance: Design processes for building and maintaining services in Public Cloud with a focus on control and compliance. Maintain continual assessment of Management Controls Assessment (MCA) Efficacy for Public Cloud.

Exception Monitoring and Data Analysis: Monitor exceptions to dispute policy and identify common root causes of exceptions. Leverage data to examine impacts on Customer Experience and Regulatory breaks.

Risk Assessment and Compliance: Appropriately assess risk and demonstrate consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguard its clients, and assets by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules, and regulations. Adhering to Policy and applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct, and business practices. Escalating, managing, and reporting control issues with transparency.

Influence Application Teams: Influence Application Teams on best practices for MCA in the cloud environment.

Requirements: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or a related field. Minimum of 8 years of experience in risk management, compliance, or cloud governance, with a focus on cloud technologies and regulations. Strong understanding of cloud governance, risk assessment, and regulatory compliance in a multi-cloud environment. Excellent communication and negotiation skills with the ability to engage with stakeholders and regulators.

We can offer you: A highly competitive compensation and benefits package A multinational organization with 51 offices in 20 countries and the possibility to work abroad Laptop and a mobile phone 10 days of paid annual leave (plus sick leave and national holidays) Maternity & Paternity leave plans A comprehensive insurance plan including: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and long-/short-term disability Retirement savings plans A higher education certification policy Commuter benefits Extensive training opportunities, focused on skills, substantive knowledge, and personal development. On-demand Udemy for Business for all Synechron employees with free access to more than 5000 curated courses Coaching opportunities with experienced colleagues from our Financial Innovation Labs (FinLabs) and Center of Excellences (CoE) groups Cutting edge projects at the world s leading tier-one banks, financial institutions and insurance firms A flat and approachable organization A truly diverse, fun-loving and global work culture

SYNECHRON S DIVERSITY & INCLUSION STATEMENT Diversity & Inclusion are fundamental to our culture, and Synechron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative Same Difference is committed to fostering an inclusive culture promoting equality, diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce helps build stronger, successful businesses as a global company. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds, race, ethnicities, religion, age, marital status, gender, sexual orientations, or disabilities to apply. We empower our global workforce by offering flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, learning and development programs, and more. All employment decisions at Synechron are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to the applicant s gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.