Cybersecurity Engineer - Regulatory, Audit, and Compliance- Local Candidates Only

Job Description

This Cybersecurity Engineer position will serve as part of Visa's Cybersecurity Regulatory, Audit and Compliance function within the Cybersecurity Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) team, reporting to Director/Sr. Director. This position will provide oversight, coordination, and deliver the activities that support successful internal audits, external audits and compliance, regulatory activities, and external customer/client requests while effectively balancing the individual elements of these activities.

In addition, you will be building, implementing, and optimizing Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) tools and solutions for our team. This role translates regulatory and audit requirements into scalable, automated technical workflow enabling efficiency and operational excellence.

Essential Functions:

• Provide oversight, coordination, and delivering the activities that support successful internal audits, external audits and compliance, regulatory activities, and external customer/client requests.
• Assist with validating the ongoing effectiveness of Cybersecurity controls across Visa (both automated and manual), working with a variety of control owners within the Cybersecurity organization, and evaluating control design and standards in a variety of program areas.
• Collaborate with Cybersecurity, Technology, Compliance, Audit, and HRIS teams to automate manual compliance and control tasks for ongoing audit readiness.
• Continuously identify, assess, and implement modern tooling — including AI/ML — to drive greater automation, efficiency, and risk reduction across the Regulatory, Audit and Compliance landscape.
• Build intuitive dashboards and reporting capabilities for stakeholders, providing real-time visibility into the risk and compliance posture of critical business systems
• Influence beyond immediate team and with those of more experience/seniority
• Update Cybersecurity leadership on the status of technology risk and compliance issues based on assessment results and information from various monitoring and control systems.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:
2+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 5+ years of relevant work experience

Preferred Qualifications:
3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Management Information Systems, or Business Administration or another related field.
Significant and relevant technical experience meeting the job description may be substituted for degree requirements.
3-5 years of work experience in Information Security, Audit, Risk, and/or Compliance
Open to experience in other relevant fields (e.g., finance, business administration, information technology, etc.) if candidate can demonstrate relevancy to this Information security-based role.
2+ years direct participation and experience across common industry security policy areas, including, but not limited to ISO, NIST, COSO, COBIT, PCI, FFIEC, SOX, SSAE16/ISAE3402, SOC 2 and others.
Proficiency in agentic AI frameworks and multi-agent orchestration.
Skills in Python or similar scripting languages for building automation scripts.
Ability to synthesize a variety of data points, problem solve and formulate comprehensive and effective execution and risk mitigation plans.
Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal to support compliance and certification audits.
Must be extremely flexible and able to manage multiple tasks and priorities on very tight deadlines.
Experience in Audit/Compliance/Regulatory discussions and proactive readiness activities in a large global financial institution or a matrix organization.
Strong understanding of natural language processing (NLP) for interpreting unstructured data (emails, PDFs, chats).
Experience with LLM-based architecture, Model Context Protocol (MCP), and Agent-to-Agent Protocol (A2A).
Hands-on experience with AI-powered workflow automation platforms (e.g., RPA + AI, Copilot integrations).
Knowledge of data governance principles, including lifecycle management and unstructured data handling.
CISSP, CISA, CISM, PCI QSA/ISA, Cloud (Azure AI, AWS AI/ML) Certifications preferred
Additional Information

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for this position is $137,400.00 to $212,500.00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.