Security Governance Engineer - Secure, Build & Change
InformaticaBase Salary
$117k - $177k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain security policies, technical standards, and control requirements.
- Manage policy versioning, approvals, exceptions, reviews, and change management.
- Define structured, machine-readable governance and policy requirements using tools such as OPA/Rego or cloud-native policy frameworks.
- Maintain control objectives, ownership, validation criteria, and traceability from regulations through implementations and evidence.
- Own assigned control-family domains by interpreting regulations, assessing gaps and exceptions, and recommending improvements.
- Collaborate with Security Engineering, Product Security, Cloud Security, IAM, Compliance, Risk, Audit, Legal, and business teams.
- Review technical implementations for alignment with policy intent and support continuous control-effectiveness evaluation.
Requirements
- U.S. citizenship or permanent residency is required.
- At least 2 years of experience in information security governance, security engineering, technology risk, or related functions.
- Strong understanding of security policies, standards, control frameworks, and governance processes.
- Familiarity with NIST CSF, NIST SP 800-53, ISO 27001, SOC 2, or PCI DSS.
- Ability to translate regulatory and security requirements into measurable control objectives.
- Working knowledge of cloud security across AWS, Azure, or GCP, as well as IAM, application, infrastructure, and data security.
- Understanding of preventive and detective control design, risk assessment, and exception management.
- Familiarity with modern development practices, cloud environments, and CI/CD.
- Strong analytical, communication, documentation, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Preferred experience with Governance-as-Code or Policy-as-Code and policy engines such as OPA/Rego or HashiCorp Sentinel.
- Preferred familiarity with YAML, JSON, Git, infrastructure-as-code, DevSecOps, GRC platforms, Common Controls Frameworks, and OSCAL.
- Additional preferred experience includes security posture management, compliance validation, architecture reviews, or AI governance.
Benefits
- Salesforce offers time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program.
- The role has a base salary range of $117,200-$176,700 annually, with a separate range of $141,200-$194,200 annually in select San Francisco and New York City metropolitan locations; compensation figures are excluded from benefit details.
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About Informatica
Informatica (NYSE: INFA), a leader in AI-powered enterprise cloud data management, helps businesses unlock the full value of their data and AI. As data grows in complexity and volume, Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud™ delivers a complete, end-to-end platform with a suite of industry-leading, integrated solutions to connect, manage and unify data across any cloud, hybrid or multi-cloud environment. Powered by CLAIRE® AI, Informatica’s platform integrates natively with all major cloud providers, data warehouses and analytics tools— giving organizations the freedom of choice, avoiding vendor lock-in and delivering better ROI by enabling access to governed data, simplifying operations and scaling with confidence. Trusted by approximately 5,000 customers in nearly 100 countries—including over 80 of the Fortune 100—Informatica is the backbone of platform-agnostic, cloud data-driven transformation. Informatica. Where data and AI come to life.™ Contact: PR@informatica.com