Senior Risk & Compliance Engineer

Summary

Join Instacart's Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) team as a Senior Staff IT Risk & Compliance Engineer. You will work on challenging technology risk problems, impacting Instacart's financial and retailer data integrity reporting. This role leads second-line defense efforts in IT SOX controls, enhancing reporting accuracy and reliability. You will design systems that empower success, driving long-term efficiency and efficacy within Instacart's in-house platform. The role involves collaborating cross-functionally and communicating effectively with key partners. Instacart offers a flexible work environment and competitive compensation and benefits.

Requirements

• BA/BS Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Management Information Systems, or related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience
• 10+ years of professional experience in Compliance Engineering, Big 4 Consulting/Auditing, GRC, Financial Systems, and/or in SOX technology industry experience
• 8+ years of experience with technology compliance in custom homegrown technology industry systems across domains such as IT Automated Controls, Access Management, Configuration Management, Change Management, Ads revenue, Information Security, etc
• CISA, CISM, CPA, or CA certification
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written), ability to influence without authority
• Demonstrated teamwork and collaboration skills, in particular in leading across multiple business or product lines

Responsibilities

• Deeply understand our business to identify emerging business risks, embed compliance processes early, create consistency in our controls approach and re-use system primitives built to help us reduce risk
• Communicate effectively with your key partners at the VP, Sr. Director, and Director levels
• Design effective and efficient IT automated and general controls for our Marketplace and Ads in house built revenue systems
• Develop a cohesive view of Financial Reporting risk with first and third line of defense functions including risk analysis, controls monitoring, improved tooling and high quality reporting for various stakeholder points of view
• Drive a comprehensive IT SOX compliance program including planning, scoping, training, documenting processes, gap analysis and build of process enhancements to mitigate risks and meet compliance requirements
• Collaborate with internal and external audit teams to drive an efficient audit process with well coordinated test evidence collection across compliance mandates, communication and reporting
• Drive GRC team strategy with teammates focused on data related risks to prioritize and sequence activities for effective risk reduction
• Expand our Data Integrity control systems to our Business to Business reporting risks within our advertising and marketplace products for frameworks like MRC and SOC

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing and implementing data reconciliation solutions for data pipelines and within datamarts (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks) for high transaction volume businesses
• Experience with compliance automation solutions, automated testing suites, and monitors using SQL, Python, Ruby and Terraform
• Experience with SOX / internal metrics systems especially engineering / in-house systems, system flow related to internal metrics or revenue systems
• Experience with AWS and GCP environments
• Experience with CI/CD development tooling and systems

Benefits

• Highly market-competitive compensation and benefits
• Remote work
• New hire equity grant
• Annual refresh grants