About the Role
Heirs Holdings is an African proprietary investment company dedicated to creating economic prosperity and social wealth across the continent through strategic investments and corporate transformations. We are currently seeking a dynamic Technology, Platforms & Operational Risk Manager to join our team in Lagos, Nigeria. In this critical second-line assurance role, you will own the technology and operational risk framework across our platforms, cloud infrastructure, data centers, SOC, and NOC, ensuring robust risk profiles and mitigation strategies are consistently applied.
Key Responsibilities- Own the technology and operational risk framework across platforms, cloud, data centre, SOC, and NOC, establishing risk profiles, tolerances, and indicators.
- Run go-live and service-acceptance risk gates with the COO, verifying tested recovery, security testing, and data protection assessments before launch.
- Manage the risk profile of each operated product, mapping payments, fraud, and data rules to controls and enforcing threat modelling prior to releases.
- Provide robust second-line challenge to the CISO, CTIO, and Operations on security posture, incident handling, patching, and change control.
- Conduct quarterly access reviews, oversee privileged and vendor access, and verify joiner, mover, and leaver controls with HR.
- Verify service figures for availability, SLA attainment, and incident response before release and lead root-cause reviews after major incidents.
- Minimum of 10 years of experience in technology risk, IT audit, or IT risk consulting within a bank, payments company, telco, or managed service provider.
- Professional certification such as CISA or CRISC is required; CISM, CFE, or ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Auditor is an advantage.
- Hands-on expertise with AWS cloud environments, digital banking or payments platforms, identity and access management, and SOC/NOC operations.
- Working knowledge of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) payments and cybersecurity regulations alongside PCI DSS compliance.
- Proven ability to present complex risk data to executive committees and board-level stakeholders.
- Competitive salary package commensurate with industry standards.
- Comprehensive health insurance coverage for employee and dependents.
- Opportunities for professional development and leadership growth within a pan-African investment leader.
- Dynamic, high-impact work environment driving digital transformation across Africa.