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Compliance & Audit, Sr Manager

Atlanta, Georgia

Black Duck Software, Inc. helps organizations build secure, high-quality software, minimizing risks while maximizing speed and productivity. Black Duck, a recognized pioneer in application security, provides SAST, SCA, and DAST solutions that enable teams to quickly find and fix vulnerabilities and defects in proprietary code, open source components, and application behavior. With a combination of industry-leading tools, services, and expertise, only Black Duck helps organizations maximize security and quality in DevSecOps and throughout the software development life cycle.

Position Summary 

The Senior Manager, Compliance and Audit, leads day-to-day Cybersecurity Governance execution and manages the following functions and associated team members: policy, metrics, reporting, audit, risk attestation, third party risk management, and enterprise security architecture.  This role sets team priorities, allocates resources, and develops talent while partnering closely with infrastructure, product engineering, and business stakeholders. The Senior Manager contributes input to governance strategy, drives implementation of policies and controls, and ensures regulatory and customer requirements are met across assigned domains. Decisions impact cross-functional groups, and the role regularly persuades managers and leaders to take action to reduce risk and improve compliance. 

Key Responsibilities:

Leadership & Span of Control 

  • Manage a team of cybersecurity governance professionals (and/or supervisors/managers); set clear goals, prioritize work, and allocate resources in alignment with business plans. 
  • Recruit, onboard, develop, and coach team members; provide regular feedback and handle escalated performance or conflict issues in partnership with HR. 
  • Establish objectives and operating mechanisms for governance processes and systems (e.g., policy management, risk registers, control testing, exception handling). 
  • Influence cross-functional leaders in Engineering, IT, Legal, Privacy, and Compliance to adopt security controls and deliver on vulnerability remediation commitments. 
  • Own team-level budgets, vendor relationships, and renewals for GRC-related tooling within approved parameters. 

Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) 

  • Operationalize and continuously improve cybersecurity policies, standards, control frameworks, and associated guidance; maintain traceability to regulatory and contractual requirements. 
  • Plan and execute risk assessments, third-party/vendor risk reviews, and control testing; maintain an authoritative risk and control inventory with accountable owners. 
  • Coordinate internal/external audits and assessments (e.g., NIST CSF/RMF, SOC 2, ISO/IEC 27001, FedRAMP) and ensure timely, sustainable remediation of findings. 
  • Maintain evidence management, metrics, and reporting for control effectiveness, audit readiness, and risk posture; present insights to security leadership and business partners. 
  • Manage exception and waiver processes, ensuring compensating controls are defined, risk is documented, and expirations are tracked. 

Partnership with Security Architecture & Engineering 

  • Collaborate with Enterprise Security Architecture to embed governance requirements into solution designs and technical standards for cloud and on-premises environments. 
  • Provide governance requirements and review design patterns for secure SDLC, supply chain risk management, SBOM usage, container/orchestration security, and runtime hardening. 
  • Support architecture and engineering teams with control interpretation and pragmatic implementation guidance; ensure deviations are risk-assessed and approved. 
  • Maintain reusable control implementation guides and reference architectures in partnership with Architecture and DevSecOps teams. 

Operations & Continuous Improvement 

  • Define and track KPIs/KRIs for governance processes; use data to drive systematic improvements that address classes of problems, not just individual issues. 
  • Identify and lead process optimization efforts (automation, workflow design, integration) across GRC tools and evidence repositories. 
  • Ensure runbooks, RACI assignments, and SOPs are current and exercised; lead table-top and readiness activities for audits and certifications. 
  • Take effective action in rapidly changing conditions; demonstrate resiliency and cultural adaptability when priorities shift. 

Stakeholder Engagement & Communication 

  • Prepare clear communications, executive-ready summaries, and decision materials for senior leadership regarding risk posture, exceptions, and trade-offs. 
  • Represent Cybersecurity Governance in cross-functional forums and customer due diligence as needed; negotiate timelines and deliverables with internal stakeholders and external partners/vendors. 
  • Contribute subject-matter expertise to building broad security awareness and targeted security-related training efforts for control owners and project teams. 

Decision-Making & Impact 

  • Decisions influence cross-functional groups and projects; escalates enterprise-wide decisions appropriately to senior leadership. 
  • Problems faced are often complex and require investigation and analysis; balances risk, usability, and delivery speed while adhering to policy and regulatory constraints. 

Qualifications:

Experience 

  • Minimum 8 years of applicable cybersecurity experience spanning governance, risk, compliance, and/or security engineering. 
  • At least 3 years of direct people leadership managing professional staff and/or supervisors/managers. 
  • Hands-on experience implementing and maintaining control frameworks (e.g., NIST CSF/RMF, SOC 2, ISO/IEC 27001) and supporting FedRAMP or similar regulatory programs. 
  • Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional leaders, negotiate priorities, and drive remediation to closure. 
  • Experience with cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Azure) and modern delivery models (containers/orchestration, CI/CD) preferred. 

Education & Certifications 

  • Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field required; Master’s degree preferred. 
  • CISSP or CISM strongly preferred; additional certifications such as Security+, ITIL Foundation, and cloud fundamentals (e.g., AWS/Azure) are a plus. 

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities 

  • Knowledge of cybersecurity governance and control design; working knowledge of application security, threat modeling fundamentals, and software supply chain risk. 
  • Familiarity with tools and scripting used in security assessment and analysis (e.g., OWASP ZAP/Burp, Nmap, Wireshark) and with SBOM/CVE analysis workflows. 
  • Strong written and verbal communication; ability to tailor messages to senior leadership and technical audiences. 
  • Proven problem-solving, decision-making, and organizational skills with a track record of delivering results in dynamic environments. 

Additional Information 

  • Occasional after-hours work may be required during audits, incidents, or change windows. 
  • Some travel may be required for audits, assessments, or team/on-site meetings. 

Pay Range

$152,300 - $190,000 USD

Black Duck considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender preference, national origin, age, disability, or status as a Covered Veteran in accordance with federal law. In addition, Black Duck complies with applicable state and local laws prohibiting discrimination in employment in every jurisdiction in which it maintains facilities. Black Duck also provides reasonable accommodation to individuals with a disability in accordance with applicable laws.

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