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≈ $15k – $31k per year (Estimated)
Location
Hybrid (Bengaluru, India)
Seniority
Senior · 6+ years exp
Employment
Full-Time

Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 29, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 28, 2026. Cognizant scores A on the Alion truth index.

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Cognizant is an American information technology services and consulting company founded in 1994 as an in-house technology unit of Dun and Bradstreet in Chennai, India, and headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey. It builds, integrates and operates software and infrastructure for large enterprises, with particularly deep positions in healthcare, financial services, insurance and life sciences, delivered by a global workforce of more than three hundred thousand people concentrated in India. Listed on Nasdaq, the company competes with the large Indian and global systems integrators and has reoriented its offerings around cloud migration, data platforms and AI-assisted engineering.

Job Summary

This hybrid CyberSecurity Specialist GRC role focuses on designing and implementing governance risk and compliance frameworks and identity and access management controls for enterprise platforms. The specialist will collaborate with cross functional teams to enhance access management processes reduce security risk improve regulatory alignment and support secure digital operations during day shifts with no travel requirements.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement comprehensive governance risk and compliance frameworks that align enterprise security controls with regulatory obligations and internal policies to reduce operational and technology risk across business units.
  • Develop and maintain GRC implementation roadmaps that coordinate process design tool configuration and stakeholder onboarding to ensure consistent risk assessment workflows and sustainable compliance monitoring.
  • Configure and optimize GRC platforms to support automated control testing issue management and risk reporting so that decision makers receive timely and reliable insights into cyber risk posture.
  • Coordinate GRC integration with existing security tools and enterprise applications by defining data flows mapping control libraries and validating interfaces to improve transparency and reduce manual effort in compliance activities.
  • Analyze identity and access management requirements across platforms and applications to design robust role based access models access approval workflows and periodic review processes that limit excessive privileges.
  • Implement and refine access management policies and technical controls for user provisioning deprovisioning and entitlement changes to ensure that access is granted on a need basis and remains auditable and traceable.
  • Collaborate with platform owners application teams and security operations to resolve access management issues investigate unauthorized access events and implement corrective actions that strengthen the security posture.
  • Document GRC and identity access processes in clear operational procedures playbooks and standards so that technology and business teams can follow consistent practices during onboarding daily operations and audits.
  • Perform regular control effectiveness reviews and risk assessments focused on access management and GRC capabilities to identify gaps prioritize remediation activities and track closure to improve resilience and compliance.
  • Support audit and regulatory inquiries by preparing evidence from GRC platforms explaining implemented controls and demonstrating how identity and access management processes meet external expectations and internal benchmarks.
  • Guide stakeholders through GRC implementation and identity access change initiatives by explaining risk implications demonstrating platform capabilities and encouraging adoption of secure processes that support company objectives.
  • Assess the impact of check processing and related financial operations on security and compliance requirements by understanding transaction flows and tailoring controls that protect sensitive data while supporting business performance.
  • Contribute to continuous improvement of cybersecurity practices by monitoring emerging risks proposing enhancements to GRC workflows and optimizing access management measures to benefit customers employees and society through safer digital services.

Qualifications

  • Possess six to nine years of experience in cybersecurity with a primary focus on governance risk and compliance implementation and integration across complex enterprise environments.
  • Demonstrate strong hands on proficiency in identity and access management on enterprise platforms including designing role models configuring approval workflows and executing periodic access reviews.
  • Show advanced expertise in access management practices such as user lifecycle management entitlement governance and privilege restriction using industry standard tools and processes.
  • Exhibit the ability to translate regulatory and policy requirements into practical GRC configurations and reports that provide actionable insights for risk owners and auditors.
  • Bring experience working with financial or payment related domains such as check processing where secure handling of transaction data and operational controls are critical to business integrity.
  • Communicate clearly with technology and business stakeholders to explain GRC and access concepts present risk findings and support collaborative resolution of security and compliance issues in a hybrid work environment.
  • Adopt structured problem solving and analytical skills to evaluate control weaknesses recommend realistic remediation steps and support implementation of sustainable cybersecurity improvements.
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