AI & Technology Risk Manager

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Aware Super is one of Australia’s largest industry funds providing superannuation, advice and retirement solutions to those who teach, nurse, care, respond and help others in our communities. We offer a truly collaborative workplace that responds to rapid change, without losing sight of what is most important to us: our members. To learn more visit: https://awaresuper.com.au/member

About this opportunity
Join Aware Super and help shape how we safely adopt AI and emerging technology.

• Day Rate Contract
• Initial 6 months
• Melbourne OR Sydney based candidates

This is a specialist Line 1 Risk & Compliance role supporting some of our most strategic technology and AI initiatives. You’ll work closely with Technology, Data, Architecture, Security and Risk teams to ensure emerging technologies are introduced with the right governance, controls and assurance in place.

A key focus will be agentic AI and autonomous decision-making systems, making this an exciting opportunity for someone who understands both technology risk and the rapidly evolving AI risk landscape.

What you’ll be doing

• Provide Line 1 technology, AI, cyber and data risk advice across strategic projects and transformation initiatives.
• Lead and support risk assessments, AI Impact Assessments and Privacy Impact Assessments.
• Review and challenge risk assessments for AI use cases, particularly high-impact and member-facing solutions.
• Assess controls for agentic and generative AI, including permissions, autonomy, action logging, human oversight, escalation and circuit-breaker controls.
• Evaluate AI risks relating to model performance, bias, drift, fairness, explainability, privacy, security and data use.
• Lead risk-based assurance and control validation, including assessing control design and operating effectiveness.
• Partner with Technology, Data, Architecture and Security teams to embed risk considerations into technology strategy and solution design.
• Support technology teams in meeting key regulatory and compliance obligations, including CPS 230 and CPS 234.
• Work across Line 1 and Line 2 Risk teams to strengthen AI and technology risk practices.

How do you exceed our expectations?

You’ll bring strong technology risk experience within financial services or another highly regulated environment, combined with practical exposure to AI risk and governance.

Ideally, you’ll have:

• Strong technology, cyber, data and operational risk experience.
• Practical experience assessing AI, machine learning, generative AI or agentic AI solutions.
• Experience designing, reviewing and testing technology and AI controls.
• An understanding of agentic AI risks, including permissioning, autonomous actions, audit trails and human-in-the-loop controls.
• Knowledge of AI governance approaches such as the NIST AI Risk Management Framework and Australian AI governance expectations.
• Good working knowledge of APRA CPS 230 and CPS 234.
• Understanding of privacy, data governance and information security principles.
• The confidence to challenge technical teams and senior stakeholders constructively.
• Strong commercial judgement and the ability to balance risk management with transformation and delivery outcomes.
• Qualifications or certifications such as CRISC, CISM or CISSP will be highly regarded.

The Aware Super difference
At Aware Super, we believe that diversity of thought, background and experience creates better outcomes for our people, members and communities. Our people are focused on creating a diverse and dynamic environment that embraces and values differences and enables our team to bring their whole selves to work. We are proud to be consistently recognised as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality and our CEO, Deanne Stewart, is a Pay Equity Ambassador. Our members are at the heart of everything we do, and we CARE deeply, DELIVER honourably, and LEAD bravely.

Applicants must have the right to work in Australia and will be subject to police and bankruptcy checks.