Risk Response Activation & Assurance Lead

AT&T

Confirmed live 2 days ago High trust
Closes in 4 days

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Work type
On-site
Location
Charlotte, NC
Salary
$155,400–$233,200 / yr
Posted
9 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live 2 days ago
Closes
Sep 30, 2026 (soon)

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Similar $182k
This role $194k
$124k most similar roles pay here $245k

This role pays more than 63% of similar roles. Most pay $148,800–$215,312 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $194k versus about $182k for comparable roles.

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About AT&T

AT&T is a US-based telecommunications company providing wireless, broadband, and fiber internet service along with phone and connectivity products for consumers and businesses.

AT&T currently has 73 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $128,400–$215,800 across 60 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Risk Response Activation & Assurance Lead

Risk Response Activation & Assurance Lead The Risk Response Activation & Assurance Lead serves as an individual contributor within the Data, Technology, and Workforce Management Risk team. This role focuses on translating validated risks into structured remediation plans, ensuring that controls are independently validated before closure while maintaining a clear residual risk posture. The professional will manage data lifecycle controls, workforce management processes, and assurance gates to improve issue resolution quality and reduce control failures. Key responsibilities include developing risk treatment strategies and influencing stakeholders across cybersecurity, audit, and business organizations. Required expertise includes data governance, data quality, access and entitlement management, and control frameworks. Candidates should possess experience in managing cybersecurity and operational risks, with a specific familiarity in applying Artificial Intelligence or Machine Learning techniques for anomaly detection, threat hunting, behavioral analytics, or risk scoring within cybersecurity contexts.

What you'll do

  • Activate validated data and workforce risks into structured remediation or formal acceptance pathways.
  • Serve as the control-layer function for risk activation across data lifecycle and workforce management processes.
  • Validate evidence and enforce assurance gates to maintain a clear residual risk posture.
  • Convert identified risks into appropriate remediation plans, compensating controls, or formal acceptance routes.
  • Ensure response pathways align with data governance, quality, access, and entitlement requirements.
  • Manage the end-to-end lifecycle of risk remediation across critical data, workforce, and consumer technology domains.
  • Influence stakeholders across cybersecurity, audit, and business units to achieve sustainable risk reduction outcomes.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Cybersecurity (preferred).
  • 7+ years of related experience.
  • Experience assessing, managing, and driving remediation of cybersecurity, technology, data governance, or operational risks.
  • Experience developing and executing risk treatment and risk acceptance strategies.
  • Strong knowledge of data governance, data quality, access/entitlement management, control frameworks, and assurance practices.
  • Proven ability to lead complex risk remediation initiatives and influence stakeholders across various business organizations.
  • Familiarity with applying AI or ML techniques in cybersecurity contexts (preferred).

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