Security Governance, Risk, Compliance Analyst
Saicon · San Jose, CA · 1 mo ago
On-siteAnalystContract
Responsibilities
- Support the GRC operating model and the service-oriented customer engagement model.
- Support GRC capabilities, such as enterprise security risk management, compliance and audit management, policy management, security awareness training, third party risk management, and metrics and reporting.
- Aid in managing security compliance programs and activities that support various compliance regulations.
- Perform risk assessments that address security threats, changes to systems and/or applications, process improvement initiatives, supplier assessments (including downstream outsourcers) and other requests from the business.
- Collaborate with various operational and business teams to complete assessments and drive remediation items to closure. Maintain accurate reporting of remediation activities to bring appropriate visibility to stakeholders and leadership.
- Maintain the security risk profiles and events of our suppliers to objectively determine high risk suppliers that require additional review and treatment plans.
- Design, build, and deploy AI-powered solutions (including agents) to scale GRC processes including but not limited to Security questionnaires, Risk assessments, Evidence collection and control testing.
- Develop automated workflows and pipelines using APIs, scripting, or low-code platforms.
- Apply LLMs/NLP to analyze policies, audit findings, and regulatory requirements.
- Extract insights from large GRC datasets to build and maintain AI-driven risk scoring and prioritization models.
- Partner with security, engineering, and data teams to productionize AI use cases.
- Ensure secure, compliant, and governed use of AI aligned with ISO 42001 and EU AI Act.
- Establish and maintain security metrics and reporting including automating KRI/KPI generation and reporting pipelines, deliver real-time visibility into security risk posture that aligns with operational/business risk areas and corporate risk.
- Measure and report efficiency gains from automation (time saved, coverage increased, etc.).
- Respond to customer security/compliance questionnaires.
- Act as security risk management “ambassador” to internal customers.
Qualifications
- Candidate must have 4 years working in governance, risk and compliance and/or information security and risk management.
- Functional knowledge of some CISSP security domains and information security industry standard and best practices.
- Functional knowledge of applicable security regulatory requirements (SOX, GDPR, AI Act).
- Functional knowledge of ISMS governance models (i.e. ISO 27001, NIST, CAIQ), information security roles, security controls.
- Functional knowledge of common security certifications (i.e. ISO 27001, ISO 42001, SOC1, SOC2) and ability to glean significance from findings identified in these reports.
- Ability to communicate risk methodologies and concepts to business units and IT teams.
- Demonstrated experience with controls definition, development, implementation and assessment.
- Hands-on experience building or customizing AI/automation solutions, including LLM-based workflows, agents, or copilots, API integrations, scripting (e.g., Python), or low-code platforms.
- Ability to translate GRC use cases into scalable automation solutions.
- Understanding of AI risks, controls, and governance frameworks (ISO 42001, AI Act).
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively with diverse and distributed teams.
- Strong attention to detail, project management and organizational skills.
- Self-starter with the ability to effectively manage independent workloads asynchronously with stakeholders across multiple time zones.