Senior VP - IT Infrastructure Risk and Control

• Drive a 50/50 split between strategy and delivery, working closely with infrastructure Product Owners to challenge, identify, and mitigate risks while building practical end-of-life roadmaps.
• Govern the Digital Engineering Risk & Control framework, ensuring alignment with wider Technology risk appetite, operational resilience, BCP, and EMEA strategies.
• Produce high-quality board packs and executive summaries, translating detailed technical risks into concise reporting for MD-level leadership and risk committees.
• Partner with Product, Platform, Cyber Security, IT Risk, and Internal Audit teams to assess risks arising from new product implementations and change activities.
• Manage audits, assurance activity, loss events, and control checks across the infrastructure estate, ensuring product teams are held to account.
• Operate initially as a senior individual contributor and introduce line management as the function matures.

Technologies:

• ITIL
• Security
• DevOps

• Substantial experience managing risk within IT infrastructure environments, covering the infrastructure stack, networks, and storage, within financial services or a similarly large, regulated estate.
• Technical credibility and confidence to challenge technical teams and product owners effectively.
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills, with the ability to move between detailed technical discussions and executive-level presentations.
• Hands-on experience delivering and executing in a lean team environment.
• Familiarity with technology risk frameworks, controls, and compliance requirements relevant to a major banking infrastructure environment.
• Strong line management capability, with the desire to take on people management responsibilities as the team expands.
• Desirable: CRISC, CISA, CISM, ITIL, or equivalent practical experience demonstrating a transition from a technical infrastructure background into risk and control.

We are partnering with a long-established international bank on a senior VP-level technology risk and control opportunity based in Central London, close to Moorgate tube. The role is hybrid, with three days per week on site, and offers a c. £120k base plus bonus and a good package. This is a high-visibility position with a clear trajectory to Director level within 12 to 24 months, giving you the chance to shape risk, governance, and control across a major technology function while staying close to the detail and building the function from the ground up.