Director, Technology Risk and Controls-1

To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts. Job Category Enterprise Technology & Infrastructure Job Details About Salesforce Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all. Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce. Applications will be accepted until 06/15/2026. About the Role Salesforce is seeking a Director, Technology Risk and Controls to architect and lead our compliance automation team within Digital Enterprise Technology (DET). This role is a unique hybrid of technical leadership and hands-on engineering, designed for a leader who views regulatory compliance and governance as a systems-engineering challenge rather than a manual checklist. As the founding leader of this function, you will define the strategic roadmap for automation across our control environment. You will execute high-impact initiatives to deliver immediate wins while simultaneously architecting and hiring a specialized team of engineers. Your primary objective is to institutionalize engineering-driven compliance, replacing traditional manual efforts with automated solutions for control execution, audit facilitation, and continuous reporting. Your Impact - Responsibilities Strategic Roadmap: Define and lead the vision to systematically automate manual compliance workstreams, engineering scalable processes that align with enterprise risk priorities. Team Leadership: Recruit and lead a specialized team of compliance engineers, establishing technical standards and an engineering culture required to modernize controls within the DET environment. Agentic Ecosystem: Architect an end-to-end agentic ecosystem to autonomously manage the compliance lifecycle, transitioning from manual evidence collection to automated, push-button execution. Continuous Monitoring: Direct the design and delivery of automated workflows and real-time dashboards (Tableau) to provide leadership with data-driven visibility into control health. Audit Collaboration: Partner with SOX teams and external auditors to ensure engineering solutions meet rigorous standards, driving formal audit reliance on automated evidence. Minimum Qualifications Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or a related field, or comparable professional work experience. Experience: 12 years in GRC, Cybersecurity, or Software Engineering, with at least 5 years of experience recruiting and leading high-performing technical teams. Technical Proficiency: Proven ability to design enterprise-level automation tools and API integrations. Proficiency in Apex and/or Java, SQL, SOQL, and Python is required. Audit Scrutiny: Extensive experience evaluating security control effectiveness and translating complex data into technical requirements that satisfy SOX, PCI, and SOC2 standards. Data Visualization: Track record of delivering real-time dashboards that transform raw system data into an executive source of truth. Problem Solving: A creative, engineering-led approach to identifying high-impact automation opportunities that eliminate friction in manual processes. Emerging Tech: Familiarity with agentic frameworks to automate workflows and synthesize unstructured data across disparate systems. Preferred Qualifications AI/LLM: Experience fine-tuning or prompting Large Language Models (LLMs) to automate audit inquiry responses or evidence mapping. ... (truncated, view full listing at source)