Senior SOX IT Controls Lead - Security GRC & Automation

Anthropic Limited; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic Limited is seeking a seasoned IT audit and SOX compliance leader to drive the control design and evidence readiness for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance across the IT stack. You will collaborate with Engineering, Security, IT, and Finance to implement automated evidence collection and monitoring, ensuring audit-readiness for Internal Audit and external auditors.

You will translate SOX requirements into concrete acceptance criteria, partner with engineering on remediation, and help elevate the

Qualifications

• Senior IT audit or SOX experience, ideally 12+ years.
• Experience with ITGC and SOX readiness in a public company.
• Hands-on engineering fluency: can read code and Terraform, understands CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Define control requirements across core ITGC domains (logical access, change management, operations, development) for SOX in-scope systems.
• Set the bar for in-scope systems pre-go-live and assess SDLC controls for new implementations and changes.
• Perform second-line monitoring and readiness testing, including walkthrough prep and evidence readiness for audits.

Skills

IT audit

SOX compliance

Cross-functional collaboration

Cloud infra

Terraform

Code reading

CI/CD pipelines

Stakeholder comms

Risk assessment

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Anthropic Limited is seeking a seasoned IT audit and SOX compliance leader to drive the control design and evidence readiness for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance across the IT stack. You will collaborate with Engineering, Security, IT, and Finance to implement automated evidence collection and monitoring, ensuring audit-readiness for Internal Audit and external auditors.

You will translate SOX requirements into concrete acceptance criteria, partner with engineering on remediation, and help elevate the