
Manager, Autonomy & Automation – Governance Risk & Compliance
Caterpillar Inc.
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Mossville • Arizona • Illinois • United States
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Salary
💰 $147,760 - $240,110 per year
Tech Stack
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