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Manager, Governance and Compliance

Location: McLean, Virginia; Richmond, Virginia; New York, New York
Job ID R240194 Updated date 04/13/2026
Manager, Governance and Compliance

Capital One is one of the fastest growing organizations in the world today, powered by our passion for our customers. We are serious about technology, we dream big, and we execute

Technology and Data  Risk Management (TDRM) is a medium sized organization that packs a big punch. The ~200 professionals in TDRM are trusted experts who oversee ~14,000 developers at Capital One. We raise the bar for excellence in cybersecurity, reliability, and tech risk. We shape strategy and decisions, challenge activities to ensure they meet our standards, and perform independent tests of our security and technology risk.  

Role Description

TDRM is seeking a Manager-level associate with a risk and compliance management and assessment background. The individual will partner with innovative and passionate stakeholders across TDRM, to coordinate and execute the assessment of the compliance impacts of risk taking activities and evaluate international laws and regulatory requirements to understand their implications to Capital One. This role requires impeccable attention-to-detail, strong communication skills, keen judgment, and excellent analytical and critical thinking abilities.       

Key Responsibilities

Responsibilities include mapping complex legal and regulatory requirements—including federal, state, and international tech and cyber laws—to our internal business processes. This includes providing a "credible challenge" to ensure our systems and procedures are not only compliant but resilient against the evolving global regulatory landscape (including Discover and international payment requirements).

  • Compliance Advisory & Challenge: Provide guidance and effective challenge on the compliance risk of business initiatives. Evaluate the adequacy of systems and procedures supporting the tech and cyber compliance program.

  • Regulatory Mapping: Understand and assess the inventory of technology and cyber risk management related laws and regulations, as well as industry standards such as the NIST, PCI DSS, CSF and FFIEC guidance, and how they translate into organizational requirements and controls. 

  • Regulatory Applicability: Perform technology and cybersecurity risk management requirement applicability and impact assessments against business, technology and cyber processes. 

  • Risk Assessments:  Coordinate and execute compliance assessments for risk taking activities and process breakdowns against these organizational technology and cybersecurity risk management requirements, including any planned remediation; ensuring the team has a documented, rationalized and repeatable assessment methodologies. 

  • Issue Management: Identify compliance issues requiring investigation or follow-up. Review complaints from various Lines of Business (LOB) and advise on necessary remediation.

  • Stakeholder Collaboration: Work with internal and external stakeholders to develop and/or enhance existing compliance assessment reporting, and draft assessments for senior management and other stakeholders, to include regulatory agencies and the Board of Directors, as needed. 

Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree or military experience

  • At least 4 years of experience working in the fields of information security, technology, or risk management

  • At least 3 years of experience in a second-line or oversight role at a financial institution or regulatory agency

  • At least 3 years of experience developing, evaluating, or implementing cybersecurity, technology or compliance risk assessments

Preferred Qualifications: 

  • 4+ years of experience in a second-line or oversight role at a financial institution or regulatory agency; prior compliance work at Visa, Mastercard or American Express 

  • Knowledge of supervisory expectations expressed in the FFIEC IT Handbook, Federal Reserve Supervisory Letters, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency Bulletins, or Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Financial Institution Letters

  • Professional security management certifications, such as a Certified Information Systems Security 

  • Working knowledge of domestic and international regulatory requirements and laws that govern credit and debit network

  • Professional (CISSP) or Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) 

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills 

  • Experience in cybersecurity, with the ability to be provide credible challenge when necessary 

  • Ability to manage multiple projects while maintaining superior results 

  • Ability to work cross-functionally

At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.

McLean, VA: $164,800 - $188,100 for Manager, Cyber Risk & Analysis


 

New York, NY: $179,700 - $205,100 for Manager, Cyber Risk & Analysis


 

Richmond, VA: $149,800 - $171,000 for Manager, Cyber Risk & Analysis


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 

Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate’s offer letter.

This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at the Capital One Careers website. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.

This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.

No agencies please. Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non-discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace. Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections 4901-4920; New York City’s Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia’s Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.

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Who We Are

At Capital One, we’re building a leading information-based technology company. Still founder-led by Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Richard Fairbank, Capital One is on a mission to help our customers succeed by bringing ingenuity, simplicity, and humanity to banking. We measure our efforts by the success our customers enjoy and the advocacy they exhibit. We are succeeding because they are succeeding.

Guided by our shared values, we thrive in an environment where collaboration and openness are valued. We believe that innovation is powered by perspective and that teamwork and respect for each other lead to superior results. We elevate each other and obsess about doing the right thing. Our associates serve with humility and a deep respect for their responsibility in helping our customers achieve their goals and realize their dreams. Together, we are on a quest to change banking for good.