IT Audit Director

We are seeking an experienced IT Audit Director to lead a highly technical internal audit function within a large, complex enterprise. This is a full-time, hands-on leadership role based in Reston, Virginia, where you will personally lead and execute complex technology audits while coaching team members, developing audit strategies, and shaping the organization's approach to emerging technology risks. This position is ideal for someone who can operate effectively at both the Director and technical practitioner level, engaging directly with engineers, security professionals, architects, and technology leaders.

Responsibilities

• Plan, lead, and execute complex internal IT audits from initial risk assessment through final reporting, with personal involvement in technical testing and analysis.
• Conduct technical walkthroughs and assessments with engineering, cybersecurity, infrastructure, cloud, and AI teams.
• Assess technology architecture, controls, vulnerabilities, and emerging risks across artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, technology resiliency, systems architecture, and enterprise technology.
• Develop audit objectives, testing strategies, work programs, and risk-based audit approaches.
• Prepare clear, concise audit reports and communicate findings and recommendations to senior management, translating complex technical risks for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Contribute to annual technology audit planning and risk assessments.
• Develop points of view on emerging AI, cyber, cloud, and technology risks.
• Coach, mentor, and provide meaningful feedback to audit team members.
• Use data analytics, automation, and AI to improve audit quality, effectiveness, and efficiency.
• Partner with technology executives, technical subject matter experts, auditors, risk teams, and business stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Required
• 8+ years of experience in IT Audit, IT Risk Management, Information Security, or closely related technology risk disciplines.
• Significant internal audit experience within a large, complex organization.
• Deep technical expertise in at least one or more of the following: cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, cloud infrastructure, AWS or comparable cloud platforms, information security, or systems/infrastructure architecture.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex, technically focused IT audits.
• Ability to personally perform technical audit work while simultaneously leading engagements and teams.
• Strong project management skills with experience managing multiple stakeholders and complex audit engagements.
• Formal people management experience, including coaching, mentoring, and providing performance feedback.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with ability to communicate credibly with highly technical engineers, architects, cybersecurity professionals, and technology executives.
• Preferred
• Hands-on experience auditing AI solutions, platforms, models, or related technology risks.
• Understanding of AI governance, security, controls, and emerging risk considerations.
• Knowledge of agentic AI architectures and associated risks.
• Experience using AI solutions to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of audit execution.
• Ability to evaluate rapidly evolving AI technologies and translate technical developments into meaningful audit and enterprise risk considerations.
• Strong data analytics capabilities, including experience identifying, designing, and implementing meaningful data visualizations.
• Experience with visualization tools such as Power BI, Tableau, Plotly, or similar platforms.
• Coding and data analysis experience using Python and related libraries or technologies such as NumPy, SciPy, or PySpark.
• Ability to use data analytics to identify risk, test controls, analyze large data sets, and improve audit execution.