Technical Risk Advisor, Specialist

Job Responsibilities:

• Establish credibility with technical teams by understanding context, asking effective questions, and constructively challenging assumptions.
• Translate risk signals into clear priorities, treatment options, ownership, and actionable next steps.
• Identify recurring conditions and opportunities to improve risk practices, analytics, tooling, automation, guidance, or workflows.
• Analyze complex technology and security risk information and translate findings into clear priorities and practical recommendations.
• Independently investigate ambiguous technical-risk issues, synthesize information from multiple sources, evaluate tradeoffs, and recommend appropriate actions.
• Partner across engineering, infrastructure, cloud, cybersecurity, risk, and operational teams to understand technical exposure, remediation constraints, dependencies, and treatment options.
• Help technology teams reduce risk by clarifying priorities, navigating barriers, and identifying actionable remediation approaches.
• Analyze risk data to identify trends, concentrations, recurring conditions, and areas requiring additional attention.
• Support technology-risk and control activities through technical analysis, interpretation of requirements, clarification of ownership, and development of trackable actions.
• Influence outcomes across organizational boundaries and identify opportunities to improve risk practices, analytics, tooling, automation, guidance, and workflows.
• Participate in special projects and perform other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum of five years of experience, with two years cloud services development experience.
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience. Graduate degree in Computer Science preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in software or application engineering, cybersecurity, technology risk, infrastructure or cloud engineering, vulnerability management, technical program delivery, or a related technical discipline.
• Experience analyzing complex technical or technology-risk issues and translating findings into risk implications, recommendations, or remediation actions.
• Experience partnering across engineering, cybersecurity, technology, risk, or operational teams to solve complex problems and influence outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently through ambiguous problems, analyze technical information and data, exercise sound judgment, and develop actionable recommendations.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to explain complex technical and risk concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior hands-on experience in software development, scripting, automation, application engineering, security engineering, or related technical work.
• Experience across multiple technology domains, such as application or software engineering, cybersecurity, cloud or infrastructure, vulnerability management, or technology risk.
• Experience supporting technical-risk remediation, risk or control assessments, application security, vulnerability management, or broader risk-reduction initiatives.
• Experience using analytics, automation, visualization, or AI-enabled tools to investigate technical issues, generate insights, or improve workflows.

Special Factors

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About Vanguard

At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission.

To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.

How We Work

Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.