Technology Risk Manager - Transformation & Integration

Aviva Direct Ireland Limited; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - GBP 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services company is seeking a Technology Risk Manager to strengthen their technology risk posture. This role involves overseeing risk management for strategic technology initiatives, conducting assurance reviews, and ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. A successful candidate should have strong analytical, influencing, and IT Service Management skills. Compensation includes a national salary of circa £80,000 and a bonus opportunity. Flexible work patterns and numerous benefits are also part of the package.

Benefits

Bonus opportunity - 12% of annual salary

Generous pension scheme - up to 14%

29 days holiday plus bank holidays

Aviva-funded Private Medical Benefit

Up to 40% discount on Aviva products

Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares

Supportive policies including parental leave

Flexible benefits including sustainability options

Paid volunteering days

Wellbeing support and tools

Qualifications

• Proficiency in IT Service Management (ITSM) frameworks and tooling.
• Understanding of enterprise architecture and technology transformation.
• Familiarity with risk management frameworks such as CRISC or ISO 31000.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders across multiple functions.
• Curiosity and analytical skills to connect complex information.

Responsibilities

• Lead IT and Cyber risk identification and oversight.
• Connect risk themes across complex environments.
• Assess programme and portfolio change risks.
• Develop and challenge risk mitigation strategies.
• Monitor risk metrics and improve risk reporting processes.

Skills

IT Service Management frameworks

Enterprise architecture understanding

Risk management frameworks

Strong influencing skills

Analytical skills

Job description

Location: Bristol / York / Norwich / London

Technology Risk Manager – Transformation & Integration
National salary: circa £80,000
London salary: circa £100,000

We’re looking for an experienced and motivated colleague to join our 2nd Line Technology and Transformation Risk team. If you have a background in technology transformation, system integration, data migration, with risk oversight experience and are looking for a role where your curiosity, analytical mindset, and influencing skills can make a real impact, we’d love to hear from you!

A bit about the job:

As a Technology Risk Manager, you’ll play a key role in strengthening the organisation’s technology risk posture by acting as a trusted partner to IT. You’ll provide independent oversight and challenge to ensure risks are well managed and that critical IT services and business processes remain resilient.

You’ll conduct assurance reviews against internal policies, standards, and regulatory requirements, helping the organisation deliver secure, compliant, and efficient services that align with strategic goals. A major part of the role involves providing risk oversight across strategic technology initiatives — embedding within programme teams to ensure risks are identified, assessed, and effectively managed across technical design, migration, testing, business readiness, governance, and delivery.

What you’ll be doing:

• Leading end‑to‑end IT and Cyber risk identification, assessment, oversight, and challenge across areas such as strategic transformation, data migration, architecture, and solution design.
• Connecting risk themes across complex environments, joining the dots between architecture, cyber, delivery, and operational risk to provide a holistic view.
• Assessing programme, portfolio, and change risks, including cost, dependencies, delivery timelines, and operational impacts.
• Developing, advising on, and challenging risk mitigation strategies in partnership with IT leadership and service delivery teams.
• Performing regular assurance reviews to evaluate compliance with internal standards, best practices, and regulatory frameworks (e.g. FCA/PRA, DORA, ITIL, COBIT, NIST, TOGAF).
• Monitoring risk metrics and supporting continuous improvement of risk reporting and oversight processes.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Strong proficiency in IT Service Management (ITSM) frameworks and tooling.
• A good understanding of enterprise architecture and technology transformation (e.g., systems integration, simplification, agile delivery, target architecture) in a complex organisation, ideally within Financial Services.
• Familiarity with recognised risk management frameworks such as CRISC or ISO 31000. Practical experience of risk identification, measurement and remediation to support effective decision making.
• Strong challenge skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders across IT, Cyber, Architecture, and Transformation, ensuring risk is embedded early in decision making.
• Curious, analytical and able to connect complex technical and delivery information into clear risk insight.

What you’ll get for this role:

Our purpose - with you today, for a better tomorrow – is a promise we make to our colleagues too. And one of the ways we live up to that promise is by investing in you. We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague.

• National salary: circa £80,000, London salary: circa £100,000 (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)
• Bonus opportunity - 12% of annual salary Actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s.
• Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in.
• 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days
• Aviva-funded Private Medical Benefit to help you get expert support when you need it
• Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts
• Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme
• Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave
• Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work
• Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others
• We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools

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Aviva is for everyone:

We’re inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if you don’t, we would still encourage you to apply. We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part time and job shares.

We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working – spending at least 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.

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