Governance, Risk and Compliance Lead

What you'll do

Within the Office of the CIO, you will advise senior management and governance bodies on data governance, architecture, cybersecurity, ICT risk and compliance, establishing the frameworks, principles and accountabilities that enable coherent and sustainable use of data and technology across CERN's federated environment. You will oversee related technology risk, compliance, audit and vendor governance, working with cybersecurity and other specialist functions. Learn more, https://cio.web.cern.ch/

Your responsibilities

-Lead and coordinate Governance, Risk, and Compliance activities across the Office of the CIO (OCIO).

-Drive alignment across departments, experiments and technical stakeholders while respecting distributed responsibilities.

-Oversee technology risk, compliance, audit and vendor governance, coordinating with cybersecurity and other specialist functions.

Your profile

Ability to define and lead enterprise policy and governance frameworks across data governance, enterprise architecture and technology risk.

Extensive experience influencing senior stakeholders and leading cross-Organisation collaboration.

Demonstrated ability to operate strategically in a federated environment with distributed responsibilities.

Strong experience in enterprise risk, compliance and assurance frameworks.

Broad understanding of cybersecurity and related risk frameworks, with the ability to work effectively with specialist functions.

Master's Degree or PhD or equivalent relevant experience in the field of Information Technology or a related field.

Your skills

Architecture and design of ICT systems.

Process analysis, definition and improvement.

Implementation of vision and strategic agility.

Knowledge of best practices for implementing ICT security standards and policies.

Risk management.

Assures alignment to overall strategy when revising unit goals and priorities in the event of changing circumstances.

Understands how individual differences bring added value to the Organization; promotes complementarities.

Listens actively to others and lets others speak.

Demonstrates an openness to new ideas and situations.

Spoken and written English, with a commitment to learn French.

Ideal start date: 01/01/2027

Contract duration (in months): 60

Grade range: 8

Benchmark job: 200020 - Computing Engineer

Job flexibility: Hybrid

Team supervision

Employment conditions

Work during nights, Sundays and official holidays, when required by the needs of the Organization.