IT Audit Director - Cyber, AI, and Cloud

About the role

In this compelling leadership position, you will lead efforts examining and analyzing every aspect of the client's IT environment. Focused on cutting‑edge cloud services, the audits cover a broad range of exciting technologies, providing a challenging environment with tremendous opportunities for personal growth. Within IT Audit, the infrastructure team evaluates a complex environment of IT processes, systems, and services, conducting audits on highly visible topics such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), cyber security, IT Governance, resiliency, and the management of various operating systems and platforms. You will own audits and reviews, set direction, and be hands‑on throughout planning, executing, and reporting while coaching and mentoring team members.

Key responsibilities

• Apply specialized technical expertise to direct and oversee audits in complex areas such as AI, cyber security, resiliency, and cloud infrastructure.
• Identify risks, assess potential impact, and adjust audit plans accordingly.
• Participate in annual planning to develop audit plans that focus on top current and emerging IT risks.
• Provide day‑to‑day project management oversight of other IT Auditors, including guidance, coaching, and review of work.
• Conduct hands‑on testing of highly complex technical topics with autonomy and focus on highest‑risk areas.
• Create regular points of view on top risks such as AI, cyber, or resiliency.
• Inspire team members to innovate new ways of working to achieve results and generate meaningful insights.
• Act as a source of knowledge related to technical domains and coach junior staff.
• Build and maintain relationships with business partners, providing advice and sharing Internal Audit knowledge.
• Ideate innovative uses of data analytics, automation, and AI for testing, while developing related skills in junior staff.
• Plan and execute audits, conduct technical testing, participate in walkthroughs, assess risks, prepare audit reports, and present findings to management.
• Develop audit strategies and contribute to annual audit planning.
• Coach and mentor team members and create points of view on emerging AI, cyber, and technology risks.

Required skills

• Expert knowledge of cyber security, artificial intelligence, or cloud infrastructure technologies (e.g., Amazon Web Services).
• Strong project management skills.
• Experience coaching and providing feedback to audit staff.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to speak the technical language of experts.
• Data analytics skills, including visualization (Power BI, Tableau, Plotly, Seaborn) and coding (Python with SciPy, NumPy, PySpark).
• AI skills: using AI solutions to increase audit effectiveness, auditing AI solutions and related risks, knowledge of agentic AI architectures.
• Deep technical expertise in cloud infrastructure, cyber security, AI, systems architecture, or information security combined with audit experience.
• Formal people‑management experience.
• Ability to quickly learn enterprise technology landscapes (AI, Cloud, Cyber) and lead complex IT audits within the first 90–120 days.

Required experience

• 8 + years of experience in IT Audit, IT Risk Management, or Information Security.
• Prior internal audit experience for a large, complex organization.

Benefits

• Medical, Vision, and Dental Insurance Plans
• 401(k) Retirement Fund

Pay

$175,000 – $239,000 per year (USD)

Schedule

Hybrid onsite flexibility: 3 days on‑site, 2 days remote.

About the client

This client is a leading mortgage financing provider dedicated to equitable and sustainable access to affordable housing, serving the U.S. housing market at national scale. The organization employs technology leaders, IT auditors, cyber security professionals, cloud engineers, data scientists, and business analysts who collaborate across a complex enterprise technology environment.

About GTT

GTT is a minority‑owned staffing firm and a subsidiary of Chenega Corporation, a Native American‑owned company in Alaska. The firm values diverse and inclusive workplaces and supports Fortune 500 organizations across banking, financial services, technology, life sciences, biotech, utilities, and retail sectors throughout the U.S. and Canada.