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Entry Level Technology Risk Management Jobs in Chicago, IL

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AVP, Global Markets Data Management (GMDM)

Chicago, IL · On-site

$110K - $175K/yr

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Partner with global stakeholders including the Business, Risk Managers, Operations and Technology ... Required transferable skills / qualifications Excellent communication, both written and verbal ...

Bank of Montreal

IT Control Tester

Chicago, IL · On-site

  • Medical

  • Life

  • Retirement

... Management and Personal Banking) * Strong understanding of IT risk and control frameworks (e.g., COBIT, ITIL, ISO 27001, COSO, NIST, PCI DSS). * Certifications such as CISA, CISM, CISSP, or CPA are ...

BMO Financial

IT Control Tester

Chicago, IL · On-site

  • Medical

  • Life

  • Retirement

... Management and Personal Banking) * Strong understanding of IT risk and control frameworks (e.g., COBIT, ITIL, ISO 27001, COSO, NIST, PCI DSS). * Certifications such as CISA, CISM, CISSP, or CPA are ...

BMO Capital Markets

IT Control Tester

Chicago, IL · Hybrid

  • Medical

  • Life

  • Retirement

... Management and Personal Banking) * Strong understanding of IT risk and control frameworks (e.g., COBIT, ITIL, ISO 27001, COSO, NIST, PCI DSS). * Certifications such as CISA, CISM, CISSP, or CPA are ...

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How much do entry level technology risk management jobs pay per year?

As of Aug 12, 2026, the average yearly pay for entry level technology risk management in Chicago, IL is $106,830.00, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $74,700.00 and $136,000.00 per year, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as an entry level technology risk management professional?

To thrive as an Entry Level Technology Risk Management professional, you need a foundational understanding of IT systems, risk assessment concepts, and a relevant degree such as in information technology or cybersecurity. Familiarity with risk management frameworks (such as ISO 27001 or NIST), basic proficiency in tools like GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance) platforms, and sometimes introductory certifications (like CompTIA Security+) are valuable. Strong analytical thinking, attention to detail, and effective communication are key soft skills that help you identify and convey risks clearly. These skills are essential to effectively identify, assess, and mitigate technology-related risks, ensuring organizational security and compliance.

What is the difference between Entry Level Technology Risk Management vs Cybersecurity Analyst?

AspectEntry Level Technology Risk ManagementCybersecurity Analyst
CertificationsCompTIA Security+, ISO 27001, CISSP (entry-level)CompTIA Security+, CEH, CISSP (entry-level)
Work EnvironmentRisk assessment, policy development, complianceMonitoring security systems, incident response, threat analysis
Industry UsageFinancial, healthcare, technology firmsIT security firms, corporate IT departments

While both roles involve security and risk, Entry Level Technology Risk Management focuses on identifying and mitigating technology risks and ensuring compliance, whereas Cybersecurity Analysts primarily monitor and respond to security threats and incidents. Both roles require similar certifications and often work in overlapping environments, but their core responsibilities differ in scope and focus.

What is entry level technology risk management?

Entry level technology risk management refers to roles focused on identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks associated with information technology systems and processes within an organization. Individuals in these positions help ensure the security, integrity, and compliance of IT operations by assisting with audits, monitoring systems, and adhering to regulatory standards. These roles are typically suited for recent graduates or professionals with limited experience in risk management or IT security. The position often serves as a starting point for a career in technology risk, offering training and development opportunities to build expertise in the field.

What are some typical challenges faced by entry level technology risk management professionals, and how can they overcome them?

Entry level professionals in technology risk management often encounter challenges such as quickly learning complex regulatory frameworks, understanding technical systems, and communicating effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Adapting to a fast-paced environment where priorities can shift rapidly is also common. To overcome these challenges, new hires should proactively seek mentorship, participate in training sessions, and regularly collaborate with team members in IT, audit, and compliance. Building a strong foundation in both risk concepts and technology, while remaining open to feedback, helps accelerate learning and integration into the team.
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Infographic showing various Entry Level Technology Risk Management job openings in Chicago, IL as of August 2026, with employment types broken down into 1% As Needed, 82% Full Time, 14% Part Time, and 3% Contract. Highlights an 92% Physical, 3% Hybrid, and 5% Remote job distribution, with an average salary of $106,830 per year, or $51.4 per hour.

BCG Platinion | Manager, Tech Advisory & Delivery

Boston Consulting Group

Chicago, IL • On-site

Full-time

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Locations: Atlanta | Austin | Boston | Brooklyn | Chicago | Dallas | Denver | Detroit | Houston | Miami | Minneapolis | Nashville | New York | Philadelphia | Pittsburgh | Durham | Summit | Washington

Who We Are

Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, we help clients with total transformation-inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact.

BCG's Tech and Digital Advantage (TDA) practice focuses on helping clients deliver competitive advantage and business superior performance through data, technology and digital. BCG Platinion sits within the TDA practice and is at the heart of the strategic impact we have with our clients. Our consultants and experts globally work across all industries and provide deep experience and expertise in a wide variety of topics including Tech Advisory and Delivery, Architecture, Enterprise Solutions and Packaged Software, Cybersecurity, and Technology Risk Management.

Our Tech Advisory and Delivery Chapter within BCG Platinion helps clients solve some of their most challenging problems through the development of superior IT concepts and tech solutions. The ideal candidate is both passionate as a consultant and technologist, and can bring their expertise to help develop customized, innovative client solutions.

Tech Advisory & Delivery Managers at BCG Platinion are:

  • Technical experts. They are critical thinkers and have extensive IT expertise that drives innovation for our clients, rooted in practicality.
  • Data-driven storytellers. They gather information, evaluate against their expertise and build clear, insightful paths for clients.
  • Collaborative. They are interdisciplinary team players who seek alignment and establish relationships ranging from cross-functional stakeholder groups to existing teams.
  • Comfortable with ambiguity. They know the path forward isn't always well-defined. They are comfortable and confident working through the unknown.
  • Change agents. They know how to make change happen across an organization across all levels - from executives to individual contributors and IT practitioners. They can align and onboard teams to implement new processes and toolsets. They embrace complex challenges and guide an organization to optimize IT best practices.
  • Influencers. They build strong relationships to build trust and influence stakeholders. They are able to effectively communicate across Business & IT stakeholders in order to influence positive change.
  • AI and Agentic native. They are versed in the latest AI and Agentic technologies and methodologies and leverage them daily to deliver high impact outcomes and tackle difficult challenges.

About BCG Platinion

BCG Platinion's presence spans across the globe, with offices in Asia, Europe, and South and North America. We achieve digital excellence for clients with sustained solutions to the most complex and time-sensitive challenge. We guide clients into the future to push the status quo, overcome tech limitations, and enable our clients to go further in their digital journeys than what has ever been possible in the past. At BCG Platinion, we deliver business value through the innovative use of technology at a rapid pace. We roll up our sleeves to transform business, revolutionize approaches, satisfy customers, and change the game through Architecture, Cybersecurity, Digital Transformation, Enterprise Application and Risk functions. We balance vision with a pragmatic path to change transforming strategies into leading-edge tech platforms, at scale.


What You'll Do

As a manager, you'll be given end-to-end responsibility for the larger and more complex "modules" within a BCG project and begin to develop specialized knowledge to help you solve our clients' problems. You'll work on a variety of digital topics, applying generalist consulting skills to strategic digital & technology questions. Working together with clients to understand their issues, you'll create strategies for change, win buy-in for your recommendations, and collaborate with fellow BCGers to transform client potential into performance.Given your role in leading larger and more complex "modules", you will manage, support, and coach more junior team members in addition to also serving as an individual contributor yourself.

Our consultants within the Tech & Digital Advantage (TDA) Chapter are an integral part of BCG's core consulting team; we work side-by-side with all practice areas to create value and competitive advantage for our clients. You'll help your clients answer questions such as "How will AI disrupt my business model?", "How can businesses use data and analytics to create highly personalized outreach delivered through a seamless omnichannel experience?", "How can I ship higher quality digital services to my customers faster by using agile?" and many more.

You're Good At:
At Platinion, we expect our consultants to be able to contribute and quickly get up to speed on a variety of topics to support the ever-changing demands of our clients. However, that broad ability to deliver needs to be grounded in deep technological knowledge in 2-3 of our primary areas of expertise such as;

Expertise

  • Supporting AI and digital transformation efforts by developing strategies around:
    • AI and Agentic Platforms.
    • Data and digital analytics platforms.
    • Cloud infrastructure and technologies.
    • Data management capabilities.
    • Enterprise Tech Platforms.
    • Business IT architecture.
    • Software and product management (including Agile ways of working).
    • Tech, Enterprise Architecture and Data governance.
  • Experience with a wide breadth of tech / AI / digital offerings, including but not limited to:
    • Developing roadmaps and current state assessments for IT and AI/Data organizations in large companies across various industries.
    • Orchestrating technical program delivery across business stakeholders, complex vendor landscapes and technology ecosystems.
    • AI / LLM cost optimization and FinOps.
    • IT Benchmarking and recommendations for IT cost take-out initiatives.
    • Developing future state tech vendor landscape, vendor assessments/selections automation, tech cost benefits analysis, eCommerce, platform valuation and design.
    • Supporting tech functions during mergers and acquisitions, including the functional and technical transformation of an organization's IT department.
    • Communicating the differences and benefits between multiple cloud computer providers and strategies for migrating from on-premise architecture.
    • Utilizing working knowledge and experience with GenAI and its potential use cases and client implications to deliver both practical and visionary solutions.
  • Experience leading the design and delivery of AI-powered products within a functional and/or industry business domain, including:
    • Defining AI product vision, roadmaps, and prioritization frameworks grounded in domain-specific workflows and business value.
    • Translating business strategy into AI-enabled product concepts, functional specifications, and delivery plans.
    • Leading agile product delivery including sprint planning, backlog management, and iterative development across teams.
    • Owning product quality assurance and ensuring outputs meet functional, technical, and compliance requirements as well as catch bad AI engineering.
    • Defining product / solution architecture and data integration patterns.
    • Designing and overseeing the integration of AI and generative AI capabilities into enterprise workflows at scale.
    • Defining data strategy and governance requirements to underpin reliable, production-grade AI products.
    • Leading the design of agentic workflows and automation use cases, balancing innovation with operational feasibility.
    • Leading vendor evaluations and platform selection processes for AI product tooling, aligned to business and technical requirements.
    • Driving change management and adoption strategies to embed AI products into business operations and ways of working.
  • Optimizing business and IT processes within complex and heavily matrixed organizations and effectively communicating a path forward for clients and internal stakeholders.
  • Delivering data and digital platforms using techniques such as Agile, DevSecOps, and Cloud native architectures.

Specific AI product domain expertise topics (preferred):

  • FP&A & FinOps:
    • Lead the design and delivery of AI-powered products and subject matter depth in one or multiple core finance processes, including FP&A, financial close and reporting, procure to pay, order to cash, etc., with understanding of underlying finance systems (e.g. ERP, CLM, EPM, etc.) and data (e.g., GL, Orders, Invoices, Contracts, Plan/Forecast, etc.). Experience deploying AI use cases ranging from operational quick wins (e.g., AI chat enabled reporting insights) to strategic transformation (e.g., AI order-to-cash automation).
  • Supply Chain / S&OP(E):
    • Lead the design and delivery of AI-powered products and subject matter depth in one or multiple key supply chain processes including demand planning, inventory optimization, procurement, logistics, and fulfillment, with understanding of underlying systems (e.g., ERP, MES, APS) and data (e.g., BOM, Orders, Inventory, etc.). Experience deploying AI use cases ranging from operational quick wins (e.g., stockout detection) to strategic transformation (e.g., Agentic S&OP transformation).
  • Go-To-Market (GTM):
    • Lead the design and delivery of AI-powered products and subject matter depth in one or multiple key GTM processes including marketing, sales, customer success, and revenue operations, with understanding of underlying systems (e.g., CRM, CMS, CPQ, SPM) and data (e.g., Customer, Lead/Opportunity, Order/configuration, Territory/Quota, etc.). Experience deploying AI use cases from operational quick wins (e.g., lead scoring, outreach automation) to strategic transformation (e.g., AI-native revenue operations).

Written communication

  • Leading the creation of client-specific strategic materials, surfacing key insights gathered from technical experts and observations.
  • Effectively codifying messaging and data into presentable materials and being comfortable delivering communications output in an efficient manner - accuracy and speed are critical to success of fast-paced, high-profile projects.
  • Synthesizing wide-ranging conversations, artifacts and best practices into clear, action-oriented recommendations.
  • Assisting with business development through writing proposals, scoping projects.
  • Contributing to our thought leadership through written publications and speaking at events and conferences.

Presentation and Facilitation

  • Presenting materials, case updates and escalations to client and internal teams.
  • Facilitating technical and strategic working sessions and workshops with both client and internal teams.
  • Providing direction on key work items and feedback to other team members.
  • Building relationships with key clients.

Team Management

  • Manage junior team members by defining and organizing their "module", helping them structure their work and associated analyses.
  • Mentor and coach junior team members by building mutual development agreements and manufacturing opportunities for them to grow and develop along explicitly defined objectives.
  • Provide quality assurance oversight - Review junior team members' output for overall correctness, level of insight, clarity of message, etc.
  • Promote an overall positive experience for junior staff.
  • Serve as a role model by actively demonstrating and living BCG's Culture and Values.

What You'll Bring

  • Bachelors or Master degree in information technology, computer science, economics, supply chain, logistics or system engineering, business management/administration, or relevant field.
  • 5-8 years of practical experience in AI/Tech consulting, product management, professional software development, product and program implementation. Preferred experience with at least one of the following:
    • AI product management.
    • AI platforms (e.g., AWS Agentcore, Azure Foundry, n8n, Aera, Palantir, Agentforce etc.).
    • Data platforms (e.g., Databricks, Snowflake, etc.).
    • Planning platforms (e.g., Anaplan, Kinaxis, OMP, etc.).
    • SAP / Oracle.
    • Salesforce.
  • Preferred Experience: 2+ years of professional consulting experience in the execution and management of technology or strategic management consulting at a leading consulting firm.
  • Exceptional learning and ramp up skills, especially on IT topics concerning data and digital platforms with the expectation of mastering and applying the BCG framework for data and digital platforms BCG's client portfolio.
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills.
    • Exceptional savviness in navigating potentially challenging senior stakeholders in sensitive situations.
    • High EQ and self-awareness, high index on confidence and persuasiveness.
    • Ability to act as a trusted advisor and influence clients and BCG case leadership teams.
  • Outstanding ability to work creatively, autonomously, analytically, in a fast-paced problem-solving environment with a focus on customer and results.
  • GenAI tool fluency (e.g., demonstrated use of GenAI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude) and validation of responses.
  • Willingness to travel around the globe to work with clients and BCG teams. At times, this role may involve up to 80% travel to client sites and BCG offices. The amount of travel will depend on client needs and nature of projects.

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