Compliance Enablement Technical Program Manager

Canada / United Kingdom Information Security and Risk Management – Trust & Assurance / Permanent / Remote About Us Sophos is a cybersecurity leader defending 600,000 organizations globally with an AI-driven platform and expert-led services. Sophos meets organizations wherever they are in their security maturity and grows with them to defeat cyberattacks. Its solutions combine machine learning, automation, and real-time threat intelligence with frontline human expertise from Sophos X-Ops to deliver advanced, 24/7 threat monitoring, detection, and response. Sophos offers industry-leading managed detection and response (MDR) alongside a comprehensive portfolio of cybersecurity technologies — including endpoint, network, email, and cloud security, extended detection and response (XDR), identity threat detection and response (ITDR), and next-gen SIEM. Together with expert advisory services, these capabilities help organizations proactively reduce risk and respond faster, with the visibility and scalability needed to stay ahead of evolving threats. Sophos goes to market with a global partner ecosystem, including Managed Service Providers (MSPs), Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs), resellers and distributors, marketplace integrations, and cyber risk partners, giving organizations the flexibility to choose trusted relationships when securing their business. Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com. Role Summary We are seeking a Technical Program Manager to serve as the technical subject-matter expert (SME) for the Trust and Assurance team. This role will be responsible for leading the technical side of the compliance automation function of the team. A core part of the role is analyzing controls within the GRC platform to ensure they are accurate, meet framework requirements, and pull the necessary evidence to prove effectiveness. You will also partner with engineering teams to embed compliance into their workflows from the start. Strong compliance framework knowledge, solid program-management skills, and experience with AI technology are essential.

What You Will Do

• Serve as the team's technical authority.

Act as the technical SME and primary point of contact for the Trust and Assurance team: interpret how systems and controls work, guide technical decisions, and identify opportunities to make workflows and tooling more efficient.

• Manage compliance stack.

Oversee control mapping, evidence collection, and monitoring workflows, and manage the integrations that connect the GRC platform to cloud platforms and internal systems.

• Establish control monitoring.

Translate technical controls into automated, continuous checks, expanding monitoring coverage across the compliance stack and replacing manual reviews with ongoing monitoring.

• Reduce audit burden.

Ensure every control has an accountable owner, support gap assessments and the rollout of new frameworks, and keep controls in a continuously audit-ready state.

• Embed compliance into engineering.

Partner with engineering teams to build compliance requirements into their workflows and processes from the start, so compliance is designed in rather than added later.

• Drive delivery and keep stakeholders aligned.

Manage initiatives through to completion, and communicate compliance risk, control status, and program progress to technical and non-technical audiences through clear, actionable summaries.

What You Will Bring

• 4+ years in GRC, compliance, or a technical role supporting cybersecurity programs, including leading programs and guiding or mentoring others.
• Strong program and project management skills, with a track record of delivering across multiple teams.
• Solid knowledge of cybersecurity frameworks (NIST 800-53 , ISO 27001 , SOC 2 ,and/or FedRAMP )and hands-on audit experience.
• Enough technical depth to be the team's technical point of contact: comfortable reasoning about cloud infrastructure (AWS , Azure , or GCP ), APIs ,and data flows ,and interpreting technical work with AI assistance ,even if you do not write code.
• Proven ability to lead technical discussions with engineers and subject-matter expertsand ask theright questions tounderstand how controlsandsystems work.
• Hands-on experiencewith aGRC orcompliance-automation platform(e.g., LogicGate , ServiceNow , Drata ),and comfort using AI toolsincompliance workflows.
• Strong writtenand verbal communication ,withthe abilityto translate betweencomplianceand engineeringforbothtechnicalandleadership audiences.
• Bachelor's degreein Cybersecurity , Information Technology , Computer Science ,or a related field ,or equivalent experience .

Desired Skills:

• Abilityto write code or scripts(e.g., Python )to build automation directly .
• Experience building AI/ML-powered or agentic applications,andwith API integrations , CI/CD pipelines ,or deploying production-grade services .
• Technical backgroundin systems administration ,software engineering ,cloud security ,or security engineering .
• Prior experienceas a technical SME oras abridge betweencomplianceand engineering teams .
• Experience leadinga SOC2 Type II , ISO27001,FedRAMP orNIST800 -53 audit end-to-end ; familiaritywith OSCAL orother compliance -automation tooling .
• Familiaritywith security monitoring tools(e.g., Tenable , Splunk ), Git,and cloud infrastructure automation tooling(e.g., Terraform,Puppet,Jenkins ).
• Experiencein SaaS,GovCloud ,FinTech ,or other highly regulated environments .
• Professional certifications suchas CISSP,CISM,CISA ,CCSP ,CCSK ,or ISO27001 Lead Auditor .

In Canada,the basesalary for this role ranges from$109000to$181000.In additionto base salary,we offer additionalcompensation including bonus eligibilityand acomprehensive benefits package.Acandidate's specific pay within this range will depend on avariety offactors,includ ing job-related skills,trai ning ,location ,experience,relevant education ,certifications,and otherbusinessand organizational needs.

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