{"id":1220304,"url":"https://alion.io/job/dtcc-digital-assets-embedded-risk-associate-director","title":"Digital Assets Embedded Risk Associate Director","company":{"id":1759477,"name":"Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation","domain":"dtcc.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/dtcc-com","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Oracle","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":77,"open_postings":77,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.922,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":33,"computed_at":"2026-10-19T05:45:15Z"}},"role":"Leadership","role_family":"Leadership","seniority":"head","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Jersey City, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":149000,"max_usd":280000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":2407},"experience_years_min":8,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Incident Management","optional":false},{"name":"Smart Contracts","optional":false},{"name":"Tokenization","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-08-03T18:05:39Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-15","last_verified_at":"2026-10-19T22:59:57Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":77,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":77},"description":"Are you ready to make an impact at DTCC?\nDo you want to work on innovative projects, collaborate with a dynamic and supportive team, and receive investment in your professional development? At DTCC, we are at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets. We are committed to helping our employees grow and succeed. We believe that you have the skills and drive to make a real impact. We foster a thriving internal community and are committed to creating a workplace that looks like the world that we serve.\nPay and Benefits:\nCompetitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive\nComprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location\nPension / Retirement benefits\nPaid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.\nDTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and the third day of your choosing).\nThe Impact you will have in this role:\nAs a member of the Clearing & Securities Services team, the Digital Assets Embedded Risk Associate Director strengthens the first line of defense by partnering with product, operations, technology, and business leadership to identify, assess, manage, monitor, and report risks associated with digital assets, tokenization initiatives, and emerging market infrastructure. The role helps embed sound risk management practices into business activities while supporting the safe, resilient, and compliant expansion of digital clearing and settlement capabilities that shape the next generation of financial market infrastructure.\nIn this role, you will work cross-functionally with business and technology stakeholders to promote effective risk and control management, support management's assessment of internal control effectiveness, and drive adherence to established control testing and issue management frameworks. The Associate Director will facilitate the identification, escalation, remediation, and monitoring of control gaps, self-identified issues, audit findings, and regulatory matters, while partnering with management to develop and execute appropriate risk response strategies, including mitigation, remediation, acceptance, and enhanced controls. Through these efforts, the role helps ensure risks are proactively managed and aligned with the firm's risk appetite, regulatory obligations, and strategic objectives.\nYour Primary Responsibilities:\nDigital Assets Risk Insight & Transformation\nLeverage knowledge of digital assets, tokenization, blockchain technologies, and AI-enabled processes to identify, assess, and manage emerging risks while supporting responsible innovation and regulatory compliance.\nDevelop risk intelligence capabilities that shift the organization from reactive to predictive risk management, enabling earlier identification of digital asset risks, control gaps, and potential operational vulnerabilities.\nEstablish and monitor key risk indicators (KRIs) for digital asset exposures, blockchain infrastructure dependencies, smart contract risks, and critical third-party technology providers, ensuring timely escalation and mitigation of issues.\nAssess the risk implications of evolving market structures, industry standards (e.g., ISO 20022 and smart contract frameworks), and global regulatory developments impacting tokenized asset clearing, settlement, and custody activities.\nIncident Management & Root Cause Insight\nLead independent review and challenge of risk incidents, ensuring robust root cause analysis that identifies systemic drivers and not just symptoms \nPartner with business teams to translate incident learnings into effective control design and enhancement, strengthening the overall control environment \nLeverage data, trend analysis, and scenario insights to identify recurring themes and proactively prevent future incidents \nEnsure lessons learned are embedded into risk assessments, control frameworks, and business processes to drive continuous improvement Issue & Action Lifecycle Management \nOversee the end-to-end lifecycle of issues and action plans, ensuring data-driven validation of remediation effectiveness and sustainability \nLeverage trend analysis and root cause insights to identify systemic issues and improve self-identification capabilities \nMonitor issue performance metrics through automated reporting and dashboards, escalating risks in a timely manner \nEnterprise Risk, Control Design & Product Enablement\nProvide independent challenge over control testing programs, promoting more efficient, data-driven, and automated testing approaches \nEvaluate control effectiveness using quantitative insights, trend data, and scenario-based analysis \nActive involvement in the development of new products and services, ensuring risk considerations are embedded from inception \nStrong capability in control design, with a focus on building robust, scalable, and effective controls aligned to business objectives and regulatory expectations\nEnsure governance, risk, and control (GRC) data is accurate, current, and optimized for analytics and AI use cases \nAligns risk and control processes into day-to-day responsibilities to mitigate, monitor, and escalate risks appropriately, including the timely resolution of incidents. \nProcess, Risk and Controls\nPerform quality review of Process, Risk, and Control data to ensure GRC foundational elements are periodically refreshed to reflect current procedures for oversight and consistency \nConduct Control Assessments inclusive of trend analysis to drive consistent risk management practices across Solutions Businesses\nRisk Culture & Conduct\nPromote a strong, forward-looking risk culture grounded in data-driven decision-making and responsible AI use \nEncourage proactive risk identification, continuous improvement, and ethical application of emerging technologies \nIdentify opportunities to streamline processes, reduce manual effort, and enhance efficiency through automation and intelligent solutions\nQualifications:\n8+ years of relevant experience in financial risk management, clearing operations, fintech infrastructure, or crypto asset markets.\nBachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience\nTalents Needed for Success:\nDemonstrated ability to leverage AI-enabled tools, data analytics, and emerging technologies to enhance risk identification, monitoring, reporting, and decision-making.\nFamiliarity with DLT protocols, blockchain ecosystems, digital custody models, tokenized securities, stablecoin mechanisms, smart contracts, and the associated operational, technology, and regulatory risks.\nDemonstrated ability to balance innovation and risk management by embedding appropriate controls and governance into emerging business initiatives within a regulated, member-focused environment.\nDemonstrated ability to balance innovation and risk management by embedding appropriate controls and governance into emerging business initiatives within a regulated, member-focused environment.\nWe are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.","description_format":"text","description_chars":7602,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":8,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Life insurance","Professional development"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Cryptocurrencies","Stock Exchanges & Market Infrastructure","Custody & Fund Administration"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-25T11:46:11Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":13,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.472,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":76,"expected_fill_days":33,"reasons":["conf:5","stale_co","velocity","win:tail","crowd:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-19T05:45:15Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/dtcc-digital-assets-embedded-risk-associate-director","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/dtcc-digital-assets-embedded-risk-associate-director.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-20T02:00:51Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":2330,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-21T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":1759477},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1759477"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fdtcc-digital-assets-embedded-risk-associate-director"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fdtcc-digital-assets-embedded-risk-associate-director"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fdtcc-digital-assets-embedded-risk-associate-director"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/dtcc-digital-assets-embedded-risk-associate-director\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fdtcc-digital-assets-embedded-risk-associate-director"}]}