Senior Manager, Software Engineering Governance (2LOD)

The role:

The Senior Manager, Software Engineering Governance (2LOD) will drive strategic approach, governance, operational oversight, and act as a second line of defense risk management specialist across SoFi Engineering Teams. This leader will play a pivotal role in developing, shaping, and executing our Technology Risk Management strategy and will work to mature foundational areas that drive risk program enhancement and risk mitigation.  At the core, the leader will partner with first line teams to leverage data to drive identification of risks, ensure robust controls are embedded in operational processes, and establish new risk programs.

Trust and Safety is the cornerstone of everything we do at SoFi Technologies & Bank and features as one of our critical firm priorities.  Key dimensions of responsibility include ensuring we have robust controls, processes, oversight, and risk aggregation across the organization.

This leader will work closely with 1LOD Engineering leadership to ensure adherence to the firm’s risk appetite, independent oversight, effective controls, escalation, and embedded governance.  

What you’ll do:

At SoFi, our ambition is to help our members achieve financial independence and reach their goals. We aim to be at the center of our members’ financial lives, and to help every member get their money right. You will be a part of the second line of defense (2LOD) Technology Risk Management team, dedicated to driving risk management around our foundational technology, with a specific focus on IT and AWS environments that provide the solutions supporting our mission to help members achieve their financial ambitions. Opportunities for success will include but are not limited to the following risk activities:

• Support expansion of risk management and capabilities for SoFi Technologies and Bank focused on code releases, deployment orchestration and associated rollout.
• Identify, assess, and report on risk associated with technology and infrastructure including the AWS environment. 
• Collaborate with cross-functional leaders across all lines of defense to drive technology risk decisions, innovations, and communicate them to senior executives and regulators.
• Play a key role in ensuring SoFi meets regulatory requirements by fostering and promoting best practices in software engineering..
• Help further define and lead SoFi's technology risk management vision and execution by driving risk identification and mitigation, building policies and procedures, and finding solutions for various technology related initiatives
• Partner with key stakeholders across the organization to implement processes that drive down residual risk and improve the overall technology risk posture, working closely with engineering and technology operations teams to establish infrastructure and tooling that enable teams across SoFi to comply with requirements.
• Review and assess SoFi’s technology risk and control environment, including but not limited to user access management, logging and monitoring, change management, backup and recovery, and PMLC/SDLC. 
• Develop Key Risk Indicators (KRIs) to help drive more efficient reporting of aggregate risks that will in turn lead to escalation of risks requiring attention.

What you’ll need:

• 5+ years of programming experience, with significant experience in a JVM-based language and familiarity with Spring.
• Relevant professional experience in Technology Risk Management or Technology Audit Management, including exposure with a Financial Technology Framework (IIA, FFIEC, NIST, ISO, COBIT, PCI, etc.)
• Deep understanding of code release, deployment orchestration / rollout mechanisms, logging, instrumentation, monitoring and alerting in a microservices environment.  
• Expert understanding and hands-on experience building and operating large-scale fault-tolerant distributed systems, workflows, databases and mobile/web applications.
• Experience with public cloud infrastructure.
• Ability to communicate technology, security, and risk management concepts to both technical and non-technical partners.

Nice to have:

• Work at a financial institution heavily supervised by regulators with a focus on building oversight and risk identification.
• AWS audit or risk management experience. 
• Relevant industry certifications, for example, CISSP, CCSK, CISA, AWS CCP, Java, Spring
• Familiarity with Google Docs, Sheets and Slides