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Director, Risk & Compliance

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Your future team

This position will report to the Director of Product Compliance and join our growing team within Governance, Risk and Compliance. The team is responsible for compliance, enterprise risk management and business resilience. The Product Compliance team coordinates and guides efforts related to Atlassian cloud compliance (SOC 2, ISO 27001/27018, HIPAA, PCI and C5) and sits within the Trust organisation. You will collaborate with technical leads and subject matter experts to analyse processes, business models, and controls to discover and translate risks, and provide mitigating recommendations to the leadership team. You will drive continuous process improvement, and collaborate with business and technology teams, both internally and externally to implement new solutions.

What you'll do

  • Prepare annual audit plans, develop audit direction, and align with stakeholders on audit timetables

  • Lead and oversee a team conducting internal readiness testing for SOC 2, ISO 27001/27018, HIPAA, C5 and GDPR frameworks

  • Develop timeline for internal readiness assessment activities and obtain alignment from all stakeholders

  • Ensure all internal readiness assessment activities are finalized and completed per documented deadlines

  • Maintain comprehensive documentation of controls, testing procedures, and evidence to support compliance efforts

  • Work closely with internal stakeholders, including product and functional teams, to address architectural, infrastructure, or new services that impact compliance

  • Lead preparation for external audits by aligning on timeframes, roles and responsibilities, expected use of internal tooling and communication methods

  • Manage and coordinate external audit activity for SOC 2, ISO 27001/27018, HIPAA, C5 and PCI external audits - maintain a project plan, schedule necessary walkthroughs, and act as single point of contact for audit requests

  • Oversee the assessment and review of SOC reports of critical third party suppliers

  • Lead and oversee the design and operating effectiveness testing on predefined Privacy controls to ensure compliance with GDPR

  • Identify opportunities for process improvements and implement best practices to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the readiness testing process

  • Develop controls and mitigation plans, and lead aspects of their implementation

  • Work with senior management to improve their controls portfolio

  • Provide regular status updates ensuring everyone is aware of progress and road-blockers

  • Promote effective teamwork, collaboration, and commitment across the Product Compliance team and the broader organisation

  • Manage the workload of team members

  • Identify and provide opportunities for career growth

  • Seek opportunities to improve processes and collaboration to increase team output and team health


Your background

  • Minimum 10-12 years of management experience in IT audit, compliance, or a related field

  • Experience with SOC 2, ISO 27001/27018, HIPAA, PCI, C5 and GDPR frameworks and requirements

  • Familiarity with compliance frameworks and standards such as NIST 800-53

  • Experience with the software development business for cloud service providers

  • Experience with Technology Risk Management, Compliance and Information Security

  • Experience establishing yourself as an expert leader

  • Experience developing goals that are aligned with business strategy and success metrics are identified

  • Experience with control and risk frameworks, performing compliance and risk assessments, creating controls and overseeing mitigation projects

  • Experience with translating compliance requirements to engineering and product teams

  • Experience with determining scope, timeline creation, complex project tracking, risk management, and process improvement

  • Familiarity with Jira and Confluence

  • Relevant certifications such as CISM, CISA, CISSP, or ISO 27001 Lead Auditor are highly desirable

Our perks & benefits

Atlassian offers a variety of perks and benefits to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health coverage, paid volunteer days, wellness resources, and so much more. Visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits to learn more.

About Atlassian

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We believe that the unique contributions of all Atlassians create our success. To ensure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience, we never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

To provide you the best experience, we can support with accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Simply inform our Recruitment team during your conversation with them.

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