Resilience Risk Officer (Tech)

This is Adyen

Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition. 

For our teams, we create an environment with opportunities for our people to succeed, backed by the culture and support to ensure they are enabled to truly own their careers. We are motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them as a team. Together, we deliver innovative and ethical solutions that help businesses achieve their ambitions faster.

Availability of the financial technology platform is at the heart of the company. Adyen maintains a resilience framework that deploys market leading technology practices leading to a distinguished track record. But at the edge of innovation continuous investment in progress is a necessity. This is where you come in!

Resilience Risk Officer (Tech)

Adyen is both a technology company and a licensed bank. We combine the best of both worlds; the innovative strengths of technology with the stability of our financial licenses. In this context , digital resilience is always top of mind and fully embedded in our business strategy. 

The Tech Risk team within the second line Enterprise Risk function, ensures that risk management practices are applied across Adyen’s technological environments, teams and initiatives. The Resilience Risk Officer acts as an enabler of  innovation, deeply integrating with engineering to transform technical complexity into operational strength. You will champion a digital resilience strategy that not only safeguards the platform but actively enables rapid, reliable growth, ensuring that resilience is embedded at the core of Adyen’s technological change.

The ideal candidate is an experienced Tech Risk professional, with relevant expertise in Governance, Risk and Compliance, with solid technical understanding to advance the IS & IT Risk framework to the next level of maturity in areas such as Digital Operational Resilience and IT Excellence (IT Capacity, Change Management, etc.).

 

What you will do

• Ensure effective technology risk mitigation by executing risk assessments across IT areas, projects, and assets, and advising stakeholders on the risk actions.
• Collaborate closely with tech leadership and build an internal network to ensure the Resilience and IT Excellence domains remain represented in business activities, contributing to decision making.
• Drive the second line risk oversight for Technology risks associated with the domains, including KRI design, risk monitoring and reporting. 
• Collaborate with other Enterprise Risk domains, in order to incorporate IT risks into Adyen’s risk profile, ensuring those are considered when evaluating company objectives. 

• Collaborate with or advise other second-line teams (typically Regulatory, Compliance and Privacy) in the implementation of requirements in Adyen’s tech environments,
• Engage with regulators, globally, to provide clarity on Adyen’s IT Resilience risk strategy and posture.

 

Who you are

• You have at least 5+ years experience with IT risk management, working with(in) the second line risk management or in technology risk consulting in a Big 4 firm or comparable. 
• Demonstrated experience in IT risk evaluations, IT Resilience best practices, Incident Management and Business continuity processes, as well as associate regulations such as DORA, NIS2 or recognized industry frameworks. 
• You feel comfortable explaining availability risks and resilience, IT excellence measures and processes to engineers but also to business stakeholders. 
• You have a solid understanding of commonly used technology stack (hardware, software, network and systems, on-prem or cloud environments), at the level required to identify risks or weaknesses and recommend tangible actions, design metrics to enable risk monitoring and oversight. 
• You are innovative, flexible with strong problem-solving capabilities and able to define effective processes and framework, when possible scaling them via automation. 

 

Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion commitments 

Our unique approach is a product of our diverse perspectives. This diversity of backgrounds and cultures is essential in helping us maintain our momentum. Our business and technical challenges are unique, and we need as many different voices as possible to join us in solving them - voices like yours. No matter who you are or where you’re from, we welcome you to be your true self at Adyen. 

Studies show that women and members of underrepresented communities apply for jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. Does this sound like you? If so, Adyen encourages you to reconsider and apply. We look forward to your application!

What’s next?

Ensuring a smooth and enjoyable candidate experience is critical for us. We aim to get back to you regarding your application within 5 business days. Our interview process tends to take about 4 weeks to complete, but may fluctuate depending on the role. Learn more about our hiring process here. Don’t be afraid to let us know if you need more flexibility.

 

This role is based out of our Amsterdam office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles.