Senior Director, Cloud Architecture Risk Oversight

Company: Capital One
Location: Mc Lean
Posted on: April 1, 2026

Job Description:

Senior Director, Cloud Architecture Risk Oversight Technology & Data Risk Management (TDRM) is a small organization that packs a big punch. The ~200 professionals in TDRM are trusted experts who oversee ~14,000 developers at Capital One. We raise the bar for excellence in cybersecurity, reliability, tech risk, and data management risk. We shape strategy and decisions, challenge activities to ensure they meet our standards, and perform independent tests of our security and technology risk. For years, the cybersecurity community has debated whether the CISO should report to the CIO or not. In regulated financial services, the answer is: both. The first-line CISO has operational responsibilities and reports to the CIO. The second-line Chief Tech Risk Officer (CTRO) and the Tech & Data Risk Management (TDRM) organization have broader responsibilities for cybersecurity but also reliability, software quality, resilience, and the risk of failing to manage our data. The CTRO is independent and oversees the work of the CISO, the CIO/CTO, and the Chief Data Officer. The CTRO reports to the Chief Risk Officer, who reports directly to the CEO. Our business leaders must constantly make technology decisions. TDRM makes sure they have the tech and data risk information they need to make good decisions. Associates within TDRM are highly-skilled information security, cybersecurity, site reliability engineering, technology, data analyst, data scientist, and risk management professionals. They have a wealth of experience and a demonstrated ability to add value with their advice and to deliver high-impact results. As the Sr Director,Cloud Risk Oversight, we are looking for a hands-on technical leader, focused on public cloud architecture at enterprise scale. This is a pivotal and high-impact role responsible for shaping the strategic vision and execution across multiple functions with the ability to influence how thousands of cloud systems are designed, deployed, and governed. Technical credibility, architectural judgment, and influence are critical to success. Responsibilities: Strategic Leadership: Represent the second line risk management function in many cloud and architecture councils to ensure an appropriate risk lens is applied to major cloud initiatives and strategic programs. Bring a passion to stay on top of cloud trends, experiment with and learn new technologies, participate in internal & external technology communities, and mentor other members of the risk management and engineering community. Lead a small but mighty team of trusted technical cloud risk advisors. Enterprise Influence: Partner broadly across the enterprise to identify and assess continually evolving threats in a fast moving and complex environment. You’ll advise architecture decisions and roadmaps across topics such as account segmentation and blast-radius containment, cloud-native service adoption, and cloud security posture management. Build and maintain relationships with technical leaders, engineers, architects, and other stakeholders to understand and evaluate implementation plans, business priorities and technical solutions to ensure risks are well communicated and understood by the key stakeholders ? Drive cloud risk prioritization: Identify cloud-specific threat scenarios (control plane vs. data plane, IAM abuse paths, service misconfiguration) and evaluate proposed and approved cloud technical solutions for automation, resiliency, scalability, and security including appropriate tradeoffs, risks and opportunities Draft and communicate independent reports to inform broad audiences including engineers, executives, business leaders, product managers, board of directors, and regulators on the current cloud risk environment Basic Qualifications: Bachelor’s Degree or military experience At least 5 years of public cloud experience or public cloud architecture or operations or security At least 10 years experience of cybersecurity, software development, architecture, or infrastructure operations Preferred Qualifications: At least 8 years direct hands on experience with Amazon Web Services architecture, operations, security, or deployments At least 5 years of people leadership experience Master’s Degree in Computer Science or in an Engineering discipline Experience leading large-scale migrations to the Public Cloud (i.e. Load Balancing, DNS, Interconnect, CDN, Compute, Networking, Storage, Security, Monitoring, etc.) Ability to communicate clearly and to interact effectively at all levels of the organization, and to influence as warranted and appropriate to drive to consensus Experience with identifying and communicating key risks related to cloud implementations and architectures to executives Familiarity with controls and control frameworks (NIST Cybersecurity Framework, NIST 800-53, CIS Top 20, ISO, COBIT) Prior experience working in financial services or other highly-regulated sectors At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position. The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked. McLean, VA: $314,800 - $359,300 for Sr. Dir, Cyber Technical New York, NY: $343,400 - $392,000 for Sr. Dir, Cyber Technical Richmond, VA: $286,200 - $326,700 for Sr. Dir, Cyber Technical Riverwoods, IL: $286,200 - $326,700 for Sr. Dir, Cyber Technical Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate’s offer letter. This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan. Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at the Capital One Careers website . Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level. This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days. No agencies please. Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non-discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace. Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections 4901-4920; New York City’s Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia’s Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries. If you have visited our website in search of information on employment opportunities or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation, please contact Capital One Recruiting at 1-800-304-9102 or via email at RecruitingAccommodation@capitalone.com . All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodations. 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