Data Center Risk Associate
Galaxy Digital is a financial services and investment management firm specializing in the digital asset, cryptocurrency, and blockchain technology sectors. Serving primarily institutional clients, the company offers a comprehensive suite of services including trading, asset management, investment banking, and data center infrastructure for AI and high-performance computing.
About Galaxy Digital
Galaxy Digital is a diversified financial services and investment management firm focused on the digital asset, cryptocurrency, and blockchain technology sectors. The company's operations are structured across three primary business lines: Global Markets, Asset Management & Infrastructure, and Data Centers. The Global Markets division provides institutional access to a full suite of digital asset products and services, including OTC trading, derivatives, and investment banking. The Asset Management & Infrastructure arm offers a wide range of investment strategies such as ETFs, hedge funds, and venture capital, alongside essential blockchain services like staking, tokenization, and custody solutions. The Data Centers business focuses on bitcoin mining and is expanding into AI and High-Performance Computing (HPC). Galaxy serves a diverse clientele, from institutional investors and trading firms to Web3 founders and miners, and also provides extensive educational resources, research, and market insights through its Digital Assets Academy and various podcasts.
Skills
About the Role
You will coordinate across data center disciplines to identify, assess, report, and mitigate risks across the full lifecycle of data center assets. You will partner cross functionally with development, construction, engineering, finance, and operations to proactively identify and address risks early in project planning and execution. You will evaluate and manage risks across pre construction, procurement, and construction phases, including site, permitting, supply chain, contractor performance, schedule, and cost exposures. You will support operational risk management for live environments, including uptime, security, infrastructure reliability, and business continuity planning. You will assist with insurance placement, claims, and compliance efforts, ensuring alignment with regulatory standards (ISO, SOC, NIST) and supporting audits across lifecycle phases. You will analyze financial and market risks in collaboration with finance, including budgeting considerations and risk mitigation strategies such as hedging. You will produce risk reports, dashboards, and insights for leadership while driving continuous improvement of risk frameworks, tools, and long-term mitigation strategies.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree
- 3+ years of experience in risk, project management, construction, infrastructure, or operations (data center or mission-critical environment preferred)
- Familiarity with risk management frameworks (e.g., COSO, NIST, ISO 31000)
- Basic understanding of data center infrastructure (power, cooling, redundancy) and development lifecycle
- Highly entrepreneurial spirit – ability to operate with minimal guidance and a strong ownership mindset to deliver results
- Deep working knowledge of financial, technology, and infrastructure risks
- Excellent analytical and communication skills; able to translate complex operational risks into succinct data points for decision-makers
Responsibilities
- Lead lifecycle risk management across data center projects, identifying, tracking, and mitigating risks from site selection through operations while maintaining up-to-date risk registers and embedding best practices across teams.
- Partner cross-functionally with development, construction, engineering, finance, and operations to proactively identify and address risks early in project planning and execution.
- Evaluate and manage risks across pre-construction, procurement, and construction phases, including site, permitting, supply chain, contractor performance, schedule, and cost exposures.
- Support operational risk management for live environments, including uptime, security, infrastructure reliability, and business continuity/disaster recovery planning.
- Assist with insurance placement, claims, and compliance efforts, ensuring alignment with regulatory standards (e.g., ISO, SOC, NIST) and supporting audits across lifecycle phases.
- Analyze financial and market risks in collaboration with finance, including budgeting considerations and risk mitigation strategies such as hedging.
- Produce risk reports, dashboards, and insights for leadership while driving continuous improvement of risk frameworks, tools, and long-term mitigation strategies.