Director, Technology Risk and Controls-1
About The Position
Salesforce is seeking a Director, Technology Risk and Controls to architect and lead our compliance automation team within Digital Enterprise Technology (DET). This role is a unique hybrid of technical leadership and hands-on engineering, designed for a leader who views regulatory compliance and governance as a systems-engineering challenge rather than a manual checklist. As the founding leader of this function, you will define the strategic roadmap for automation across our control environment. You will execute high-impact initiatives to deliver immediate wins while simultaneously architecting and hiring a specialized team of engineers. Your primary objective is to institutionalize engineering-driven compliance, replacing traditional manual efforts with automated solutions for control execution, audit facilitation, and continuous reporting.
Requirements
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or a related field, or comparable professional work experience.
- Experience: 12+ years in GRC, Cybersecurity, or Software Engineering, with at least 5+ years of experience recruiting and leading high-performing technical teams.
- Technical Proficiency: Proven ability to design enterprise-level automation tools and API integrations. Proficiency in Apex and/or Java, SQL, SOQL, and Python is required.
- Audit Scrutiny: Extensive experience evaluating security control effectiveness and translating complex data into technical requirements that satisfy SOX, PCI, and SOC2 standards.
- Data Visualization: Track record of delivering real-time dashboards that transform raw system data into an executive "source of truth."
- Problem Solving: A creative, engineering-led approach to identifying high-impact automation opportunities that eliminate friction in manual processes.
- Emerging Tech: Familiarity with agentic frameworks to automate workflows and synthesize unstructured data across disparate systems.
Nice To Haves
- AI/LLM: Experience fine-tuning or prompting Large Language Models (LLMs) to automate audit inquiry responses or evidence mapping.
- Certifications: Advanced technical or security certifications such as Salesforce Certified Technical Architect (CTA) , CISSP, or CISM.
- Salesforce Expertise: Deep familiarity with Salesforce platform architecture and leveraging native capabilities to scale complex processes.
- Analytics: Experience with the design and development of Tableau dashboards to support control testing outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Strategic Roadmap: Define and lead the vision to systematically automate manual compliance workstreams, engineering scalable processes that align with enterprise risk priorities.
- Team Leadership: Recruit and lead a specialized team of compliance engineers, establishing technical standards and an engineering culture required to modernize controls within the DET environment.
- Agentic Ecosystem: Architect an end-to-end agentic ecosystem to autonomously manage the compliance lifecycle, transitioning from manual evidence collection to automated, "push-button" execution.
- Continuous Monitoring: Direct the design and delivery of automated workflows and real-time dashboards (Tableau) to provide leadership with data-driven visibility into control health.
- Audit Collaboration: Partner with SOX teams and external auditors to ensure engineering solutions meet rigorous standards, driving formal audit reliance on automated evidence.
Benefits
- time off programs
- medical, dental, vision
- mental health support
- paid parental leave
- life and disability insurance
- 401(k)
- employee stock purchasing program
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
