Senior Manager GRC Engineering (Project Management)
At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create, secure, and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity, from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation.
Everything we do centers around people. That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers, and their customers, better. And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive.
Job Title:
Senior Manager, GRC Engineering
Reports to: Director of Governance, Risk, and Compliance
Role Summary:
The Senior Manager, GRC Engineering will be a key leader in building, implementing, and optimizing Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) solutions for our fast-growing business. This role translates regulatory and security requirements into scalable, automated technical workflows — enabling secure growth and operational excellence across our Go-to-Market and People technology ecosystems.
Core Responsibilities:
Own GRC System Architecture and Integrations: Design, implement, and maintain the technical architecture for our GRC platform. Drive integrations with key SaaS systems, including Go-to-Market tools (e.g., Salesforce, Marketo, Boomi) and People technology platforms (e.g., Workday, ServiceNow).
Automate Control Workflows: Partner with Security, IT, Compliance, Sales Ops, and HRIS teams to identify and automate manual compliance and control tasks across the enterprise — ensuring consistent audit readiness.
Support GTM and People Technology Compliance: Develop and maintain strong technical understanding of integrations and workflows related to Go-to-Market solutions (CRM, marketing automation, API connectors) and People technology (HRIS, ITSM, onboarding systems) to ensure compliance is embedded by design.
Define and Refine Compliance KPIs: Develop meaningful compliance metrics and risk indicators; use data to continuously improve controls and proactively communicate status to leadership.
Lead Reporting and Dashboard Initiatives: Build intuitive dashboards and reporting capabilities for stakeholders, providing real-time visibility into the risk and compliance posture of critical business systems.
Evaluate AI and Automation Opportunities: Continuously identify, assess, and implement modern tooling — including AI/ML — to drive greater automation, efficiency, and risk reduction across the GRC landscape.
Key Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related discipline; advanced degree or industry certifications (e.g., CISA, CISSP, CRISC) a plus.
7+ years of experience in GRC engineering, technical compliance, or security operations roles within a SaaS or cloud-native company.
Proven experience designing and managing GRC platforms (e.g., ServiceNow GRC) with hands-on system integrations.
Strong technical experience working with and integrating enterprise solutions including but not limited to Salesforce, Marketo, Boomi, Workday, and ServiceNow.
Familiarity with cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) and modern SaaS architectures.
In-depth understanding of relevant compliance frameworks (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001, SOX, FedRAMP, GDPR).
Hands-on experience with workflow automation, APIs, scripting, or low-code/no-code tools.
Proven ability to build meaningful dashboards and actionable reporting for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Excellent collaboration and communication skills with the ability to partner across Security, IT, HR, Sales Ops, and Engineering.
Passion for continuous improvement, emerging technologies, and driving innovation with AI and automation.
The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.
The annual base pay for this position is: $193,301.00 - $289,951.00F5 maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, geographic locations, and market conditions, as well as to reflect F5's differing products, industries, and lines of business. The pay range referenced is as of the time of the job posting and is subject to change.
You may also be offered incentive compensation, bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits. More details about F5's benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.f5.com/company/careers/benefits. F5 reserves the right to change or terminate any benefit plan without notice.
Please note that F5 only contacts candidates through F5 email address (ending with @f5.com) or auto email notification from Workday (ending with f5.com or @myworkday.com).
Equal Employment Opportunity
It is the policy of F5 to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants without regard to unlawful considerations of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, sensory, physical, or mental disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, discipline, and termination. F5 offers a variety of reasonable accommodations for candidates. Requesting an accommodation is completely voluntary. F5 will assess the need for accommodations in the application process separately from those that may be needed to perform the job. Request by contacting accommodations@f5.com.
