Engagement Delivery Lead – Controls Modernization & GRC Transformation
Cognizant is seeking an experienced Engagement Delivery Lead to oversee the successful execution of a Controls Modernization and Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) transformation program. This role involves managing delivery across control assessments, rationalization, modernization initiatives, and governance enablement activities. The ideal candidate will coordinate among business, technology, risk, compliance, and audit stakeholders, ensuring quality execution, transparency, and alignment with regulatory and organizational objectives. This position requires strong program management, stakeholder engagement, and financial services risk management experience.
Key responsibilities include leading end-to-end delivery of controls modernization initiatives, developing and maintaining detailed project workplans, milestone schedules, delivery trackers, RAID logs, and governance artifacts. The role also involves coordinating activities across GRC consultants, risk stakeholders, control owners, compliance teams, audit functions, and technology partners. Facilitating workshops, interviews, and working sessions to assess controls, validate ownership, identify gaps, and support rationalization activities are also essential. Additionally, the candidate will track delivery progress, manage dependencies, prepare and communicate weekly status reports, drive issue resolution, and ensure assessment findings and recommendations are well documented. Supporting governance forums, executive reviews, stakeholder communications, and decision-making processes throughout the engagement lifecycle is also part of the role.
Candidates should have over 12 years of experience in Program Management, Delivery Management, GRC, Technology Risk, Audit, Operational Risk, or Controls Transformation programs. Strong experience leading large-scale financial services, banking, risk, compliance, or controls modernization initiatives is required. Proven expertise in delivery governance, stakeholder management, workplan management, milestone tracking, and RAID management is essential. Experience supporting control assessments, control rationalization, audit remediation, risk management, and regulatory compliance programs is necessary. A strong understanding of technology controls, operational controls, risk frameworks, governance processes, and control effectiveness assessments is important. Experience facilitating executive workshops, stakeholder interviews, governance forums, and cross-functional working sessions is also required. Excellent communication, presentation, documentation, and executive reporting skills are essential. Demonstrated ability to manage complex dependencies, delivery risks, escalations, and stakeholder expectations in regulated environments is crucial. Experience working with project management and collaboration tools such as Microsoft Project, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and SharePoint is expected. Exposure to GRC, audit management, risk management, or governance workflow platforms is preferred. Professional certifications such as PMP, PRINCE2, CISA, CRISC, or related program/risk management certifications are highly desirable.
The annual salary for this position ranges from $136,500 to $160,000, depending on experience and qualifications. This position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans. Benefits include medical, dental, vision, and life insurance; paid holidays plus paid time off; a 401(k) plan with contributions; long-term and short-term disability; paid parental leave; and an employee stock purchase plan.
Cognizant is a technology services provider specializing in AI solutions, bridging the gap between AI investment and enterprise value by building full-stack AI solutions for clients. With deep industry, process, and engineering expertise, Cognizant integrates an organization’s unique context into technology systems that amplify human potential, drive tangible outcomes, and keep global enterprises ahead in a fast-changing world.