What Part Will You Play? 

• Collaborates with Information Security, Technology, Risk, Audit, and business stakeholders to support First Line Assurance objectives. Aligns assessment activities with business priorities and communicates findings in a clear, actionable manner. 

• Performs targeted control assessments, operational assurance reviews, post-deployment security validations, and certification activities. Evaluates security control implementation and effectiveness, identifies control weaknesses and compliance gaps, assists with remediation tracking, and provides detailed findings and recommendations to stakeholders. 

• Supports the automation of control audits, evidence collection, control testing, reporting, remediation tracking, certification, and continuous monitoring. Contributes to workflows, dashboards, data collection, and repeatable assessment processes that reduce manual effort and increase assurance coverage. 

• Uses automation and reporting tools to streamline evidence collection, control validation, assessment execution, remediation tracking, and recurring assurance activities. Experience with Power Automate, Power BI, or similar workflow and reporting technologies is desirable. 

• Supports continuous monitoring, assurance, and validation activities by reviewing technical, administrative, and operational security controls. Analyzes assessment results, assists in development of automation opportunities, tracks remediation efforts, and contributes to recurring certification and reporting activities. 

• Reviews business requests, assurance findings, and control exceptions to determine level of risk and appropriate remediation path. Informs management of security policy variances and control gaps. 

• Not an exhaustive list; other duties as assigned. 

What Are We Looking For in This Role? 

• Bachelor's and/or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or related information technology field, and/or a combination of equivalent and relevant work experience. 

• Minimum 7+ years relevant experience in information security, security assurance, audit, risk, compliance, security architecture, security engineering, or related technology functions. 

• Knowledge of industry standard security and compliance programs and frameworks including PCI, FFIEC, FISMA, SOX, GLBA, HIPAA, ISO-87001, NIST 800-53, NST CSF, NIST RMF, and/or related security control frameworks. 

• Ability to work with stakeholders at multiple levels to identify risk, collect and evaluate evidence, document findings, and communicate practical remediation options. 

Required Certification(s) / Licensing 

• Professional certifications such as CRISC, CGRC, CISM, CISSP, CISA, CySA+, or equivalent experience are preferred. 

Desired Skills and Capabilities 

• Strong familiarity with on-prem, cloud, and hybrid environments, across connected and disconnected environments, in a complex and diverse Fortune 500.  

• Familiarity with multiple cloud hosting environments is preferred, or at least strong familiarity in one of the three main cloud provider environments such as GCP, AWS, or Azure. 

• Experience performing information security assessments, security control assessments, technical control testing, control design testing, control effectiveness testing, KPI/KRI testing & validation, operational assurance reviews, or post-deployment validation activities. 

• Experience designing, implementing, or supporting automated security control validation processes, tooling, and infrastructure, to include strategic and continuous monitoring, audit resiliency, and/or evidence collection processes is highly desirable. 

• Experience with Microsoft Power Apps Platform, including Power Automate and Power BI, or other metric and reporting data structures is desirable. 

• Experience developing dashboards, metrics, assessment reports, or recurring assurance reporting from multiple data sources. 

• Familiarity with workflow automation platforms such as ServiceNow and assessment or evidence tracking platforms such as Optro (fka AuditBoard), Archer, or similar audit / GRC tools. 

• Knowledge of continuous monitoring, control validation, compliance automation, evidence collection, and remediation tracking concepts. 

• Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate technical evidence into business-focused recommendations. 

Skills / Knowledge 

Having broad yet in-depth expertise and unique knowledge, uses skills to set and ensure success of company objectives and principles and to achieve goals in creative and effective ways within environments and situations that are complex and difficult. Having ownership of a function, major account, or matrix management responsibilities, uses knowledge to ensure success, strengthen relationships, expand the business through key initiatives, and lead matrix teams on complex projects. 

Job Complexity 

Works on issues that impact security assurance, technology risk management, control effectiveness, automation, reporting, and future concepts, products, or technologies. Creates formal networks with key decision makers and serves as a trusted partner to Information Security, Technology, Risk, Audit, and business stakeholders. 

Supervision 

Exercises wide latitude in determining objectives and approaches to critical assignments.