Bremer Bank National Association Hiring for Technology Risk and Training Specialist at Lake Elmo, MN  Full Time

Are we a bank? Absolutely. But when it comes to careers, you’ll find that there’s a lot more to our business than you might expect. We’re passionate about helping customers throughout Minnesota, Wisconsin and North Dakota succeed and grow. Our commitment to authentic and enduring relationships starts by taking time to listen and learn about our customers’ goals, and innovate to solve their challenges, not only through financial resources but also deep knowledge, insights and ideas.

We expect, encourage and reward entrepreneurial thinking from our employees. We have a shared purpose of cultivating thriving communities, inspired by our founder, Otto Bremer, who spent his lifetime supporting the communities that his banks served in new and unexpected ways. That commitment to community and creative problem-solving contributes to Bremer’s culture.

If you want the next chapter in your story to be one where you make a real difference for our customers, communities and economies, we’re the bank to join. We foster diversity, equity and inclusion, building on the legacy of our immigrant founder. If you’re curious, enjoy collaborating, and start each day with the customer in mind, we invite you to join our team!

As the Technology Risk and Training Specialist you will support the Director, Office of the CTO to orchestrate the Technology department’s operation by proactively managing risk, driving training and development, and performing other reporting functions critical to supporting the Technology department’s success in supporting business objectives and customer outcomes.

Bremer Bank has been serving communities for 80 years and is on a transformational journey of modernization. We are expanding our technology capabilities and building products and platforms to propel us into the next 80 and beyond. As part of this journey, we are rapidly expanding our cloud and software engineering capabilities and modernizing our technology portfolio. We appropriately have aggressive goals and timelines, and this role is key to ensuring our technology teams have the requisite skills. To this end, the Technology Risk and Training Specialist will work with technology leaders to assess, maintain, and track talent and development needs, and will collaborate with partners across Human Resources and Talent Acquisition. You will likewise build and maintain relationships with our external vendors to articulate and fulfill talent needs when sourcing candidates.

You will play a key role in coordinating talent sourcing activities, crafting skills development plans for incoming employees tailored to the needs of their targeted team, leading training and development programs, tracking and managing short- and long-term skill needs aligned to strategic goals, and leading key initiatives and programs to enable technology leaders to fulfill Bremer’s corporate and technology department strategies.

Additionally, in this role, and as part of the Chief Technology Office, you will be responsible for performing management, orchestration, and communication of risks within the enterprise but focused within the Technology organization. You will lead internal assessments to identify risks, drive their remediation, and proactively identify and implement process improvements. You will ensure consistent forward progress on technology risk finding remediation and meeting critical delivery dates by facilitating collaboration with leaders from the risk and audit organizations and technology leaders and their reports to validate understanding of findings, finding ownership, and track remediation plan delivery. This role will provide regular communication to all levels of the organization and coordinate resources across cross functional teams, throughout the finding lifecycle, including serving as the technology department representative and response coordinator during regulatory exams and internal audits.

You will also engage in the tracking and reporting of key operational or governance metrics, and performance and risk indicators. Success in this role will require strong relationship management skills and an ability to work at all levels within and across the organization.

Essential Functions:

• Analyze training needs to develop, modify, and lead training and development programs for the technology department, including identifying and referring candidates for internal leadership and development programs.
• Collaborate with HR partners to manage the talent pipeline.
• Collaborate with HR partners and partner with external vendors to guide internal and external talent sourcing -Manage, design, and implement training and development program procedures.
• Track department and division-level certifications and work with technology leaders to maintain certification requirements to meet talent and development needs and industry standards.
• Define, track and report key performance indicators and success metrics.
• Act as a trusted advisor to Technology senior leaders and their direct reports -Consult on strategic initiatives and ensure that risks are appropriately documented, reported, and escalated.
• Serve as an expert in Bremer’s Information Security offerings, IS polices and guidelines.
• Manage and coordinate remediation efforts after assessment findings outline weakness requiring attention.
• Lead complex risk assessments to evaluate compliance with existing policies and procedures to accurately identify risks and drive remediation processes.
• Identify and implement process improvements across risk and compliance programs.
• Provide leadership on how to effectively achieve and sustain compliance with regulatory, industry, and contractual obligations, as well as information security policies and practices.
• Establish and build relationships with vendors in conjunction with corporate leadership -Work closely with Audit, Risk Management and Compliance departments, serving as a functional liaison, to maintain a secure, reliable, and accountable environment.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science, management information systems or business, or equivalent experience, and minimum of 8 years relevant professional experience.
• Experience with technology risk methodologies, control development and AWS cloud operational effectiveness testing within the financial service industry.
• Experience developing training and education programs, and delivering and managing effectiveness -Understanding of applicable regulatory requirements, IT FFIEC, NIST cyber security frameworks and AWS, and Cloud Architecture from a controls perspective.
• Experience in various technical environments, knowledge of Cloud (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc.), Application Programming Interface (APIs), Microservice architecture, Middleware, databases, DevSecOps, is valuable.
• Relevant technology and risk certifications such as CIA, CISSP, CISA or AWS Cloud Practitioner and/or AWS Cloud Architect Associate are valuable.
• Excellent presentation, interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to thrive in an ambiguous environment and help disambiguate it -Analytical and proactive problem-solving skills, with a desire for continuous learning.
• Facilitation, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills.
• Able to provide subject matter expertise as required to technology projects.

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Our Values

Collaboration: We work elbow-to-elbow with our customers, making a difference for them in good times and bad. We share our skills, knowledge and experience to support each other every day.

Commitment: We’re deeply invested in the places we live and work, and we’re always ready to do whatever it takes to help our neighbors and communities thrive and grow.

Creativity: Imagination and innovation are essential to helping our customers and Bremer succeed. If there’s a better way to do something, we’ll find it or create it.

Our Benefits

At Bremer, we are committed to supporting and growing the we call home. Our people understand that they represent our name and reputation in every conversation, and that they’re backed by an organization that values finding a better way to get things done. . Not just the 401(k), pension plan, healthcare, and vacation kind (we’ve got those), but the kind of everyday benefits that get you excited for what each day holds.

Bremer Bank is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. We’ve built an organization of experienced, intelligent and collaborative people from a range of all backgrounds, and all of them contribute something essential to helping our customers thrive and grow.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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Employee Polygraph Protection Act rights (dol.gov)

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