IT Security Associate Director - Governance and IT Compliance Platforms

About the Role :

The Governance and IT Compliance Platform Lead is responsible for the strategic ownership, governance, and operational oversight of the organization's Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) platforms. This role ensures that security, risk, compliance, and audit processes are effectively supported by technology, aligned with organizational policies, and scalable to meet evolving regulatory and business requirements. The position partners with security leadership, IT, product development, legal, compliance, and business stakeholders to enable a consistent, automated, and efficient control environment across the enterprise.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities :

• Platform Strategy & Roadmap : Define and execute the enterprise GRC technology and platform strategy, ensuring alignment with security frameworks (e.g., NIST CSF, NIST 800-53, DORA, etc.).
• Platform Ownership : Serve as the primary owner of the GRC platform(s), overseeing configuration, integration, upgrades, managing platform changes and roadmap and optimization to meet enterprise needs.
• Process Enablement : Translate governance, risk, and compliance processes into platform workflows, dashboards, and reporting that support issue management, risk assessments, policy governance, evidence collection, risk register generation and alignment with organizational units.
• Stakeholder Engagement : Collaborate with information security, IT, compliance, operations, and legal partners in the development, integration, and operation of the platform and intertwined product strategies and roadmaps.
• Automation & Efficiency : Drive automation of risk and compliance processes to reduce manual effort, improve audit readiness, and increase sustainability of controls.
• Data & Reporting : Develop dashboards, analytics, and reporting to provide actionable insights to executives, regulators, auditors, and business leadership.
• Platform Governance : Establish platform governance standards, change control processes, and ongoing lifecycle management and own / drive cross-functional sessions and demand management mechanisms.
• Vendor Management : Manage relationships with platform vendors and system integrators, including licensing, renewals, escalations, and roadmap discussions.
• Leadership : Lead and mentor a small team of GRC platform administrators, analysts, or consultants as needed.

Skills :

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or risk and governance

Preferred :

Master's degree in computer science, information technology, or risk and governance

Certifications : Servicenow Integrated Risk Management (IRM) Implementer, CRISC, CISA, CISM, CISSP, CDPSE, or similar

Required Experience :

Preferred Experience :

Travel : Less than 25%

Benefits :

A comprehensive benefits package that begins your first day of employment. Additional Information : Wolters Kluwer offers great benefits and programs to help meet your needs and balance your work and personal life, including Medical, Dental, & Vision Plans, 401(k), FSA / HSA, Commuter Benefits, Tuition Assistance Plan, Vacation and Sick Time, and Paid Parental Leave . Full details of our benefits are available -

Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office as part of the recruitment process.

Compensation :

Target salary range CA, CT, CO, DC, HI, IL, MA, MD, MN, NY, RI, WA : $183,700 - $260,050