Senior Digital Risk Advisor

Senior Digital Risk Advisor – Group Security & Technology Platforms

Are you passionate about digital risk governance and making organizations more resilient? Join our dynamic team at Swiss Re, Bangalore, where you'll play a pivotal role in shaping how we identify, manage, and mitigate digital risks across our global operations. This is your opportunity to sit at the intersection of technology, risk management, and business strategy — helping to protect and strengthen one of the world's leading reinsurance companies while driving meaningful impact every day.

About the Role

As a Senior Digital Risk Advisor, you'll serve as a trusted partner to our Group Security & Technology Platforms unit, ensuring that digital and technology risks are properly identified, assessed, and controlled. You'll help cultivate a robust risk culture while enabling innovation and business growth through smart, effective risk management practices. This is a high-visibility role where your expertise will directly influence how Swiss Re navigates the evolving digital risk landscape.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead risk assessments and control evaluations within the Group Security & Technology Platforms unit, ensuring comprehensive coverage of digital risk exposure

• Implement digital risk frameworks as a trusted advisor, ensuring IT threats and risks are clearly understood across the organization

• Design effective controls and embed them into operational procedures through close collaboration with technology teams

• Drive automation of control processes and spearhead continuous improvement initiatives to strengthen our overall risk posture

• Build operational transparency through continuous monitoring and assessment of controls against our defined risk appetite

• Coordinate audit activities and serve as the primary point of contact for Internal Audits, External Audits, and Compliance Risk Reviews

• Provide expert guidance on digital risk and control activities within the Group Security & Technology Platforms unit

• Promote risk awareness by staying current with evolving digital risk requirements and ensuring proper framework implementation across teams

• Foster innovation in risk management approaches and methodologies, bringing fresh thinking to how we manage and respond to digital risk

About the Team

The Digital Risk Governance & Controls team is a cornerstone of Swiss Re's resilience strategy. We are dedicated to defining and managing risks related to digital topics, playing a crucial role in helping Swiss Re fulfill its mission of making the world more resilient. Our team ensures that digital risks are properly identified, assessed, and controlled at every level of the organization. We bring together deep technical expertise and sharp business acumen to deliver practical, forward-thinking risk management solutions — ones that protect the organization while actively enabling innovation and sustainable growth. We are a collaborative, curious, and driven group that values diverse perspectives and continuous learning.

About You

You are a strategic thinker with a genuine passion for risk management and a collaborative, inclusive approach to problem-solving. You understand both the technical and business dimensions of digital risk and can communicate with clarity and confidence across all levels of the organization — from senior leadership to IT engineers. You are proactive, detail-oriented, and energized by continuous improvement. You thrive in dynamic environments and bring both rigor and creativity to the challenges of modern digital risk governance.

We are looking for candidates who meet these requirements:

• Proven track record in IT risk and control-related roles such as IT Governance, IT Audit, or Digital Risk Management, with demonstrated ability to deliver results

• Strong knowledge of Risk Management Frameworks including COBIT, ISO 31000, COSO ERM, and/or NIST, and the ability to apply them pragmatically in a complex organization

• Industry experience in insurance, reinsurance, or banking, with a solid understanding of modern technology solutions and their associated risk profiles

• Fluency in spoken and written English, with strong communication skills and the ability to engage effectively with diverse stakeholders at all levels

These are additional nice to haves:

• Professional qualifications such as CISA, CGEIT, CRISC, or equivalent certifications

• Experience with control automation and continuous monitoring techniques

• Background in application development or security engineering

• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain collaborative networks across IT domains

• Curiosity, proactivity, and confidence in decision-making at pace, with a solutions-first mindset

Our company has a hybrid work model where the expectation is that you will be in the office at least three days per week.