GRC Specialist

Skip to content Back to CareersNew York, New York, USA GRC Specialist Beware of recruitment fraud: Collibra will never ask candidates for payment or personal information through text messages or social media (e.g., WhatsApp). The Collibra Talent Acquisition team does not request or require details like bank account numbers, tax forms or credit card information during the recruitment process. All official communication comes from our company domain (@collibra.com), and job postings can be verified on collibra.com/careers. Joining Collibra’s GRC team Collibra’s GRC Team is looking for a GRC Specialist, Automation & Technology who brings a strong technical mindset and a passion for automation, combined with solid core experience supporting audits and compliance programs. In your day to day, you will act as a strategic, technical contributor who can bridge the gap between compliance requirements and modern automation tools (like Claude and Workato) to make our team more impactful. You will partner directly with GRC and Internal Audit teams to manage workloads and automate manual processes: helping build and maintain AI-driven agent workflows to streamline repeatable processes and controls, facilitating continuous monitoring for our control environment, and supporting technical implementations of controls, such as for new cloud environments or new AI initiatives.  Values-in-action: Our customers are our true north. Our GRC Specialist, Automation & Technology will enhance customer trust and accelerate sales pipelines by engineering automated, always-audit-ready environments for critical frameworks. This is a hybrid role based in our New York City office. Our hybrid model means you’ll work from the office at least two days each week. This setup helps us stay connected, work more closely together, and keep making progress as a team. The GRC Specialist, Automation & Technology at Collibra is responsible for Collaborating with the GRC and Internal Audit teams to architect and deploy AI agentic capabilities, such as multi-step Claude workflows, Workato recipes, and autonomous control monitoring processes in order to eliminate repeatable manual GRC overhead and streamline evidence validation. Engineering continuous control monitoring pipelines and real-time control checks for our key security frameworks in order to shift Collibra from point-in-time sampling to an always-audit-ready risk posture. Supporting the technical GRC infrastructure integration of new cloud environments into our control framework starting in Q3. Facilitating automated governance guardrails and continuous monitoring systems for our expanding portfolio (i.e. AIUC-1) in order to maintain ongoing compliance. Partnering closely with Internal Audit and GRC colleagues to evaluate manual processes and controls and leverage orchestration and automation platforms in order to maximize the strategic efficiency and impact of our risk mitigation practices. Helping design automated key risk indicator (KRI) and key performance indicator (KPI) reporting to senior management. Administering the day-to-day functions of Collibra’s GRC platforms and tools (i.e. Optro) to maintain a reliable source of truth. You have 3+ years of experience in a technical compliance role, IT internal audit, or GRC environment, ideally within an enterprise SaaS platform. Experience building workflow automations using industry standard platforms (e.g., Workato, Claude, or native GRC platform automation engines). Hands-on experience reviewing or auditing cloud environments (Cloud infrastructure, IAM, and native logging systems) and AI programs. One or more current qualifications is nice-to-have: CISA, CRISC, CISSP, CIA, CPA, or relevant cloud/automation certifications (e.g., Azure, AWS, GCP, Workato). A bachelor’s degree or equivalent related working experience is required. This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. You are Passionate about automation and efficiency, with a strong...