Senior Risk & Controls Lead – Infrastructure

About Company:

Synechron is a global technology consulting firm that helps leading organizations accelerate digital transformation through innovation, expertise, and agility. With more than 16,500 professionals across around 60 offices in over 20 countries, we combine deep industry knowledge with advanced capabilities in AI, cloud, cybersecurity, and data engineering. Our regional teams, supported by strategic delivery centers, provide scalable, cost-efficient solutions tailored to local markets. Through our award-winning Synechron FinLabs accelerators and strategic partnerships with AWS, Microsoft, Databricks, Salesforce, and ServiceNow, we enable clients to innovate fast and lead with confidence. For more information on the company, please visit our website or LinkedIn community.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusio

nDiversity & Inclusion are fundamental to our culture, and Synechron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative-action employer. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative ‘Same Difference’ is committed to fostering an inclusive culture – promoting equality, diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce helps build stronger, successful businesses as a global company. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds, race, ethnicities, religion, age, marital status, gender, sexual orientations, or disabilities to apply. We empower our global workforce by offering flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, learning and development programs, and more.All employment decisions at Synechron are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to the applicant’s gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Job Description:

Are you a strong risk and controls professional with deep technology infrastructure experience and the ability to influence senior stakeholders across a global organization? We are looking for an Infrastructure Risk & Controls Lead to strengthen and evolve our end-to-end risk and control environment across a complex, fast paced, and highly regulated landscape.

In this role, you will partner with senior leadership, oversee portfolios across multiple geographies and functions, and drive effective risk and control management practices. You will provide insightful analysis, constructive challenge, and strategic guidance to improve control effectiveness, embed risk culture, and support informed decision-making.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead risk and control management activities for Infrastructure, ensuring strong control design, monitoring, and assurance.
• Partner with senior management and stakeholders across businesses, functions, and geographies to embed a robust risk and control framework.
• Analyze risk and control data to identify trends, gaps, and opportunities for measurable improvement.
• Deliver clear, concise, and meaningful reporting to support senior stakeholder decision-making.
• Drive continuous improvement through automation, control optimization, and cost-efficient risk mitigation measures.
• Provide effective support, challenge, and advisory to stakeholders on risk and control matters.
• Support the CCO operating model, including service catalogue, procedures, and toolkits.
• Ensure lessons learned from incidents or control issues are understood and actioned consistently across the wider organization.
• Stay ahead of regulatory expectations, industry trends, and emerging risk developments.
• Lead and inspire teams, including remote teams, while fostering collaboration, inclusion, and high performance.

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in IT infrastructure, service management, and/or technology risk and controls.
• 5+ years of expertise in operational risk, non-financial risk, technology risk, or cyber risk.
• Strong experience working in complex, matrixed, global organizations.
• Proven ability to engage, influence, and challenge senior stakeholders effectively.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex information and turn it into actionable insights.
• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills, with the ability to explain technical issues in clear, non-technical language.
• Experience in financial services or another highly regulated industry is preferred.
• Experience engaging with regulatory bodies is highly valued.
• Relevant professional certifications such as CISA, CISSP, CRISC, CCSP are a plus.
• Demonstrated people leadership capability, with experience leading dispersed or remote teams preferred.