Caterpillar Inc.

Manager, Autonomy & Automation – Governance Risk & Compliance

Caterpillar Inc.

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: MossvilleArizonaIllinoisUnited States

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Salary

💰 $147,760 - $240,110 per year

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About the role

  • Execute an established A&A cybersecurity and compliance vision by translating strategy into operating processes, evidence, metrics, and sustained outcomes.
  • Lead the A&A security governance, risk, and compliance program across the product lifecycle.
  • Ensure alignment with key cybersecurity and quality standards, including CRA, IEC 62443, ISO 27001, and ISO 9001.
  • Translate regulatory and standards requirements into clear, actionable expectations for engineering and product teams.
  • Establish consistent, auditable security and compliance evidence for new products, sustaining engineering, and fielded systems.
  • Coordinate internal and external audits, manage audit findings, and drive corrective actions to closure.
  • Serve as the primary owner for security and quality controls and maintain defensible compliance posture.
  • Lead CRA readiness activities, including secure‑by‑design documentation, vulnerability management, SBOM requirements, and regulatory interpretation.
  • Drive adoption of IEC 62443 secure development lifecycle practices and support design reviews for compliance risks.
  • Manage risk acceptance, deviations, and exceptions, providing documented risk decisions and escalation support.
  • Lead responses to customer and third‑party security questionnaires, audits, and assessments.
  • Ensure customer security assurances are accurate, consistent, and reflective of actual product posture.
  • Define and maintain KPIs related to regulatory readiness, audit posture, and customer security risk trends.
  • Deliver executive‑level reporting and insights to support leadership decision‑making.
  • Lead, mentor, and develop a small team of security and compliance professionals.
  • Collaborate cross‑functionally with Engineering, Product, Legal, Privacy, Quality, and Enterprise Security to drive consistent compliance outcomes.

Requirements

  • A bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Security, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related field.
  • Communicating Complex Concepts: Knowledge of effective presentation tools and techniques to ensure clear understanding; ability to use summarization and simplification techniques to explain complex technical concepts in simple, clear language appropriate to the audience.
  • Cybersecurity Standards and Policies: Knowledge of developing cybersecurity policies, standards and procedures; ability to develop and communicate policies, standards and procedures that guide interactions with customers.
  • Cybersecurity Risk Management: Knowledge of tools, techniques, approaches and processes of cybersecurity risk management; ability to ensure organizational network operation and minimize negative effect by cybersecurity risks.
  • Knowledge of the processes, tools and techniques of information security management; ability to deploy and monitor information security systems, while detecting, controlling and preventing violations of IT security.
  • Prior experience with external auditing
  • Previous experience with a Big Four consulting firm
  • Ability to fluently speak Spanish or Portuguese.
Benefits
  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits*
  • Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)*
  • 401(k) savings plans*
  • Health Savings Account (HSA)*
  • Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)*
  • Health Lifestyle Programs*
  • Employee Assistance Program*
  • Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts*
  • Career Development*
  • Incentive bonus*
  • Disability benefits
  • Life Insurance
  • Parental leave
  • Adoption benefits
  • Tuition Reimbursement
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
cybersecuritycompliancerisk managementinformation security managementauditingvulnerability managementsecure development lifecycleKPI developmentregulatory interpretationsecure-by-design documentation
Soft Skills
communicationpresentation skillsteam leadershipmentoringcross-functional collaborationsimplification techniquescustomer interactionproblem-solvingdecision-makingreporting