Global Payments Network (GPN) Risk & Advisory - Principal Associate

What you'll do: As a Principal Associate in GPN Risk & Advisory, you will serve as a trusted advisor leading and driving strategic risk conversations with GPN Tech teams.

Key responsibilities include: Governing and supporting risk objects (risks and issues) throughout their entire lifecycle. Driving risk identification and mitigation across GPN Tech teams to empower decision-making by GPN Tech Accountable Executives. Leading, facilitating, and contributing to key discussions to identify, assess, manage, and report critical risk-related issues. Applying a continuous improvement approach to regularly review and challenge GPN Tech risk objects. Serving as an approachable, effective partner to develop fit-for-purpose, adaptable solutions. Collaborating with our extended Risk Guides team to streamline processes and remove complexity. Providing tailored risk advice, constructive challenge, and guidance to GPN Tech stakeholders. Ensuring clear communication of key messages and progress on action items, delivering timely risk input, context, and reporting. Expertise: Maintaining up-to-date, in-depth technical expertise across relevant risk domains and industry standards. Deep expertise in governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) within technology environments. Proven hands-on experience managing risk in large-scale organizations, with a strong focus on simplifying complex topics. Strong organizational skills and executive presence to build collaborative relationships across diverse technical and business teams. Exposure to operational GPN Tech management and governance. Exceptional written and verbal communication skills. Proficiency in data visualization, analysis, and reporting. Knowledge of specific risk management disciplines and frameworks, including: Risk Assessment Three Lines of Defense model Risk reporting and analytics This role is designated as a hybrid position. You are expected to adhere to Capital One's hybrid policy regarding required on-site presence at your designated office location.

Basic Qualifications: Bachelor's Degree or Military Experience At least 3 years of experience in technology (Software delivery, distribution systems, cloud-native architecture, infrastructure as code) cybersecurity (identity and access management, application security, cloud security, data protection) technology auditing, system risk management, technology risk assessment resilience engineering (operational resilience, business continuity, disaster recovery, high availability) chaos engineering (fault injection, blast radius, mitigation, automated security validation) Site reliability engineering (SLAs or SLOs observability, incident response), or a combination At least 2 years of experience in project management, risk program oversight, or process management At least 2 years of experience in Technology Risk Management, Financial Services, or Payment Network Processing At least 2 years of experience collaborating with and supporting key internal stakeholders