GRC Engineer

Apex Fintech Solutions is looking for a GRC Engineer to help build, scale, and operate our governance, risk, and compliance program. This is a hands-on, technically minded role that blends traditional GRC responsibilities, including audits, risk management, policy, and due diligence, with engineering-oriented skills like API integrations, data querying, and control automation.

You’ll be a key player in maintaining our compliance posture across frameworks like SOC 2, NIST CSF, and ISO 27001, while also helping modernize how we monitor and evidence controls using platforms like Anecdotes. This role suits someone who is equally comfortable talking to auditors as they are writing a query to pull evidence out of a data pipeline.

What You’ll Do

Audits & Framework Management

• Own or co-own preparation for and execution of SOC 2 (Type I/II) audits, working directly with external auditors to scope, evidence, and remediate findings
• Lead or support NIST CSF assessments and gap analyses, translating results into actionable remediation plans
• Support alignment and readiness activities for ISO 27001 and other relevant frameworks (e.g., PCI DSS, GLBA, state/federal financial regulations as applicable)
• Maintain a unified control framework that maps overlapping requirements across multiple standards to reduce duplicate effort

Compliance Monitoring & Governance

• Build and maintain continuous compliance monitoring using GRC platforms such as Anecdotes (or equivalent tools like Vanta, Drata, Secureframe, OneTrust, ServiceNow GRC)
• Configure and manage automated evidence collection via API integrations with cloud, identity, ticketing, and infrastructure systems
• Design and implement controls that consume ingested data, ensuring accuracy, freshness, and appropriate alerting on control drift or failures
• Query and analyze compliance and security data (SQL or platform-native query languages) to validate control effectiveness and produce audit-ready evidence
• Maintain the organization’s control library, risk register, and policy/procedure repository

Risk Management

• Support enterprise risk assessments, including identification, scoring, tracking, and remediation of risks
• Maintain third-party/vendor risk management processes, including vendor risk assessments and ongoing monitoring
• Partner with security, engineering, and business teams to ensure risks are understood, owned, and addressed on a reasonable timeline

Due Diligence & Customer Trust

• Respond to Due Diligence Questionnaires (DDQs), RFPs, and customer security questionnaires with accurate, timely, and well-documented answers
• Maintain a trust center / security documentation repository to streamline recurring due diligence requests
• Act as a subject matter resource for prospects, customers, and partners on Apex’s security and compliance posture

Policies & Procedures

• Draft, maintain, and periodically review information security and compliance policies and procedures
• Ensure policies remain aligned with current frameworks, regulatory obligations, and actual operational practice
• Support policy attestation, training, and awareness campaigns

Other GRC Functions

• Support internal and external audit logistics, evidence requests, and stakeholder coordination
• Contribute to metrics and reporting for leadership and the board on compliance and risk posture
• Continuously look for opportunities to automate manual GRC workflows

Required:

• 2-5+ years of experience in GRC, information security compliance, IT audit, or a closely related field
• Hands-on experience with SOC 2 audits (as a practitioner preparing evidence, not just an auditor)
• Working knowledge of NIST CSF and ISO 27001 (or similar frameworks like PCI DSS, HITRUST)
• Experience with a GRC automation platform (Anecdotes, Vanta, Drata, Secureframe, OneTrust, ServiceNow GRC, or similar)
• Comfort working with API integrations to ingest data for compliance monitoring and control building
• Working proficiency in SQL or similar query languages to analyze and validate compliance data
• Experience drafting and maintaining information security policies and procedures
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, able to translate technical findings for both auditors and executives
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent audits/assessments and shifting priorities

Preferred:

• Experience in fintech, financial services, or another regulated industry
• Familiarity with vendor/third-party risk management programs and DDQ response processes
• Exposure to cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and common security tooling (IAM, SIEM, ticketing systems)
• Scripting ability (Python, or similar) for light automation of GRC workflows
• Relevant certifications: CISA, CISSP, CRISC, ISO 27001 Lead Implementer/Auditor, or similar

Pulled from the full job description

• Annual leave
• Life insurance
• Matching gift scheme
• Company pension
• Private medical insurance
• Flexible schedule, We offer a robust package of employee perks and benefits, including a market-leading salary with an annual bonus, 28 days of annual leave plus 10 Northern Ireland national holidays, a training and development budget, and a pension matched up to 7%. Our benefits also cover private health insurance for medical, dental, and optical care, and life insurance. We emphasize work-life balance with flexible working hours, parental leave, a modern city center office, and a hybrid work schedule that allows for greater flexibility by partially working from home. Additional perks include monthly catered lunches, unlimited drinks and snacks, hackathon events, poker tournaments, and a charitable matching gift program.

Apex Fintech Solutions (Apex) powers innovation and the future of digital wealth management by building tech-forward solutions that help simplify, automate, and facilitate access to financial markets for all. Our robust suite of fintech software enables us to support clients such as Stash, Betterment, SoFi, Webull, and eToro, amongst many others; collectively, Apex powers access to the stock market for over 22+ million end customers.

At Apex, we are changing how the securities industry operates by reinventing the status quo, which was manual, slow, and accessible only by the ultra-wealthy. We’re digitizing and democratizing systems so that everyone has an opportunity to invest.

When you’re at Apex, you drive this change. You’re part of a global team with a clear vision: to be the trusted technology that powers the digital economy. Our offices in Austin, Dallas, Chicago, New York, Portland, Belfast, and Manila are home to over 1,000 employees.

Together, we’re shaping the future of financial innovation. Embrace change. Solve big. Win together. And be G.R.E.A.T. - grit, results, empathy, accountability, and teamwork - with Apex.

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