ETIC, Technology and Resilience - Senior Associate  

About the Role  

Our Technology Risk and Resilience team helps firms navigate a fast-moving regulatory landscape while managing robust, future-proof technology estates. From shaping digital resilience frameworks under the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) to helping firms enhance their technology risk maturity, we combine deep sector insight with leading technology to solve problems alongside our clients. 

What You’ll Be Doing 

• Supporting the engagement manager and broader team in delivering technology risk and resilience advisory engagements. 

• Performing control walkthroughs, sample testing, and evidence review across technology risk and resilience domains. 

• Drafting gap analysis and maturity assessment artefacts aligned to frameworks such as COBIT, ITIL, NIST CSF, ISO 27001/22301. 

• Assisting with regulatory readiness and assurance projects, including resilience assessments under DORA and other EU/UK regulations. 

• Preparing working papers and contributing to reports for clients, regulators, and internal stakeholders. 

• Supporting risk advisory and assurance engagements, ensuring resilience objectives are embedded in technology change and operations. 

• Using platforms like ServiceNow for resilience-related analysis and reporting. 

• Engaging with the firm’s digital agenda, leveraging AI tools to enhance risk monitoring and resilience testing. 

• Contributing to cloud and DevOps risk assessments, ensuring secure, compliant, and recoverable environments. 

• Assisting with business development activities such as preparing responses to tenders and creating proposal documents. 

• Building trusted relationships with client SMEs and control owners. 

• Coaching junior team members and supporting their development. 

• Taking ownership of your personal development to ensure you are equipped with skills relevant to the proposition now and in the future. 

What We’re Looking For 

• Experience in technology risk, IT audit, digital resilience, or related consulting. 

• Working knowledge of UK/EU Technology and Resilience Regulations (including DORA) and frameworks such as COBIT, ITIL, NIST CSF, ISO 27001/22301. 

• Practical experience in control testing or assurance fieldwork (evidence sampling, walkthroughs, KRI analysis). 

• Strong communication skills - able to translate technical findings into clear, concise messages for business stakeholders. 

• Familiarity with ServiceNow for resilience-related analysis and automation. 

• Understanding of technology risk models and resilience frameworks. 

• Demonstrable experience of using AI in current role for risk and resilience use cases. 

• Progress toward professional certifications such as CRISC, CISA, CISSP, CBCI, ISO 22301 Lead Auditor, or Prince2/AgilePM. 

• Exposure to regulatory remediation programmes (e.g., s166 Skilled-Person reviews) preferred.