Technology Risk Director

About Us

At ANZ, we're shaping a world where people and communities thrive, driven by a common goal: to improve the financial wellbeing and sustainability of our millions of customers.

About the Role

In this position in our Risk, Group Technology team, you’ll play a key role as a senior specialist providing Line 2 expert risk advice, oversight and judgement across enterprise technology resilience risk. This is a key leadership role that shapes how material technology resilience risks are understood, challenged and communicated so that the Board, Executive Committee and regulators understand material risk positions against appetite, policy, regulatory expectations and critical service requirements.
 
Operating as part of the Risk, Group Technology leadership team, you will act as a trusted expert and advisor across the team, bringing deep subject matter expertise, independent perspective and executive-ready insight to support material technology resilience risk oversight, high-quality review and challenge, and clear risk-based recommendations across technology domains, resilience disciplines and key programs.

Banking is changing and we’re changing with it, giving our people great opportunities to try new things, learn and grow. Whatever your role at ANZ, you’ll be building your future, while helping to build ours.

Role Type: Permanent
Role Location: Melbourne or Brisbane
Work Hours: Full time
 

What will your day look like?

In this role you will:

• Providing specialist Line 2 expertise across the technology resilience portfolio by forming independent views on material risks, controls, remediation, risk acceptance and resilience outcomes, and translating these into clear priorities, recommendations and escalation paths.
• Acting as a trusted advisor and consultant on complex technology resilience risk matters, bringing deep subject matter expertise, sound judgement and constructive challenge to strategic and in-year decisions.
• Refreshing material risk themes, oversight priorities and portfolio focus areas on an annual and in-year basis, informed by horizon scanning, forward-looking scenario considerations and critical service resilience needs.
• Leading and maintaining the integrated portfolio plan for the broader team, including governance cadence, oversight coverage, prioritisation, sequencing, interdependencies and deployment of specialist capability against the portfolio’s highest priorities.
• Maintaining a forward-looking view of emerging and systemic technology resilience risks, including implications for risk appetite, governance focus, regulatory obligations and critical service outcomes.
• Providing credible independent challenge on risk-in-change for significant initiatives involving technology, resilience, cloud, architecture or service change, including treatment plans, control design, delivery risks, residual risk positions and risk acceptance proposals.
• Synthesising insights from reviews, resilience events, incidents, thematic work and assurance activity to identify systemic weaknesses, root causes, recurring patterns and opportunities for control uplift or governance intervention.
• Overseeing portfolio-level monitoring of metrics, indicators, incidents, issues and change signals, and ensuring integrated reporting clearly explains movement, drivers, outlook and management action required.
• Producing, coordinating and presenting executive-ready Line 2 opinions, briefings, committee papers and portfolio reports that clearly articulate material risks, trade-offs, implications, management actions and decisions required.
• Representing Line 2 perspectives in cross-functional forums, regulatory or audit interactions and enterprise initiatives, ensuring technology resilience risks are clearly understood and appropriately reflected in broader risk views.
• Maintaining an insights-led, forward-looking view of the technology resilience portfolio by connecting metrics, incidents, issues, review outcomes and change signals into clear themes, drivers, outlooks and recommended actions.
• Driving continuous improvement in Line 2 methods, templates, reporting routines, portfolio management disciplines and specialist advisory practices to improve consistency, quality, efficiency and auditability of oversight outputs.
• Using data, trends and portfolio insight to recommend targeted focus areas, thematic deep dives, resource deployment decisions and uplift priorities that strengthen control maturity, remediation sustainability and resilience outcomes.
• Providing specialist coaching, guidance and quality assurance across peers, Risk Managers, Associate Managers or matrix contributors to uplift technical depth, risk judgement and the quality of Line 2 challenge, reporting and writing.

What will you bring?

To grow and be successful in this role, you will ideally bring the following:

• Extensive experience in a senior Line 2 Technology Risk, Technology Resilience Risk, Operational Resilience, Compliance or Assurance role within a complex, APRA-regulated or equivalently regulated environment.
• Deep knowledge of technology resilience, operational resilience and technology risk disciplines and practices, and their impact on critical services, customers and enterprise resilience outcomes.
• Proven ability to form, articulate and defend independent and defensible views on control effectiveness, remediation credibility, residual risk, resilience outcomes and risk acceptance for complex or material risk matters.
• Strong understanding of APRA requirements relevant to the role, including CPS 230 and other prudential standards relevant to technology resilience, and demonstrated ability to support audit and regulatory engagement through clear positions, evidence expectations and traceability.
• Demonstrated capability to review and challenge risk-in-change for material initiatives involving technology, resilience, cloud, architecture or service change, including treatment plans, delivery risks, dependencies, residual risk positions and risk acceptance proposals.
• Proven ability to synthesise diverse risk inputs, including reviews, incidents, issues, metrics, assurance outcomes and change signals, into coherent material themes, root causes, outlooks and recommended actions for Executive and Board-level audiences.
• Strong governance writing and communication skills, with the ability to produce concise, decision-ready risk papers, briefings and ‘voice of risk’ interventions that clearly articulate trade-offs, decisions required and consequences of non-delivery.

So why join us?

From the moment you join ANZ, you'll be doing meaningful work that will shape a world where people and communities thrive.

But it's not just our customers who'll feel your impact. You'll feel it too. Because at ANZ, you'll have the resources, opportunities, and support you need to take the next big step in your career.

We're a diverse bunch at ANZ in different roles, different locations, doing different things. That's why we have a range of flexible working arrangements, so our people can 'make work, work for them'. We also provide a range of benefits including access to health and wellbeing services and discounts on selected products and services from ANZ and more.

At ANZ, you'll be part of an organisation where the different backgrounds, perspectives and life experiences of our people are celebrated. That's because we're committed to building a workplace that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve. We welcome applications from everyone and encourage you to talk to us about any adjustments you may require to our recruitment process or the role itself. If you're a candidate with a disability or access requirement, and have an enquiry about the support provided, please let us know on your application or visit ANZ Accessibility and Inclusion Programs for alternate contact methods.

To find out more about working at ANZ, visit https://www.anz.com.au/careers. You can apply for this role by visiting ANZ Careers and searching for reference number 123792.
 

Job Posting End Date

01/10/2026, 11.59pm, (Melbourne Australia)