GRC Lead: Technology Risk & Controls Modernization

Cognizant; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 137,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

401(k)

Paid holidays + PTO

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking an experienced GRC Lead to drive assessment, rationalization, and modernization of technology operational controls in a large-scale financial services environment. You will lead control assessments, facil itate stakeholder workshops, validate control effectiveness, and translate findings into modernization and automation strategies.

This role requires strong stakeholder engagement, analytical rigor, and hands-on exposure to regulated banking environments.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Technology Risk, IT Audit, GRC, Internal Controls, Operational Risk, or Controls Transformation.
• Strong hands-on experience assessing and improving technology operational controls within banking or financial services.
• Proven experience conducting control assessments, evidence reviews, risk-to-control mapping, and control effectiveness evaluations.
• Experience rationalizing control inventories and documenting control disposition decisions with stakeholder validation.
• Knowledge of FFIEC, COBIT, NIST, ITGC, and operational risk management practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead assessment and rationalization of technology operational controls, validating design, effectiveness, ownership, risk alignment, and evidence requirements.
• Review control inventories to identify gaps, overlap, obsolete controls, and optimization opportunities.
• Facilitate workshops with control owners, technology teams, risk, compliance, and governance groups.
• Develop recommendations to retain, consolidate, enhance, or retire controls based on risk coverage and value.
• Identify opportunities for automation across control execution, evidence collection, testing, monitoring, and compliance.

Skills

Technology Risk

IT Audit

GRC

Internal Controls

Operational Risk

Control Transformation

Stakeholder Management

Documentation

Presentation

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in a relevant field

Professional certifications (CISA, CRISC, CIA, CGEIT, CISSP, ISO 27001 Lead Auditor)

Tools

ServiceNow GRC

Archer

MetricStream

OpenPages

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an experienced GRC Lead to drive assessment, rationalization, and modernization of technology operational controls in a large-scale financial services environment. You will lead control assessments, facil itate stakeholder workshops, validate control effectiveness, and translate findings into modernization and automation strategies.

This role requires strong stakeholder engagement, analytical rigor, and hands-on exposure to regulated banking environments.