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

This Cybersecurity Engineer position will serve as part of Visas 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 Bachelors Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters MBA JD MD)
Bachelors 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 a new hire into this position is 137400.00 to 193750.00 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 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.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time