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Security Engineer Senior - GRC

Alan - Remote - Remote - posted 2026-10-20

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Alan is a prevention-focused health insurance company serving 1M+ members across Europe and Canada, with €800M+ ARR. The company integrates insurance, prevention, and care into a single platform and recently earned HDS certification. You will own security governance and risk end-to-end, establishing a unified framework across certifications and regulations (ISO 27001, HDS, and future standards) that the entire company uses to prioritize security decisions. This is a hands-on senior role where you will both execute the work yourself and mentor a junior GRC engineer being hired alongside you. Key responsibilities: - Own the full certification cycle and transform compliance frameworks into practical tools teams use daily, not just audit binders - Bring the security perspective on regulatory requirements, translating rules into data protection controls and practical implementation - Run an ongoing risk management program: map and prioritize security risks (including AI risks), develop treatment plans, and feed findings into company-wide risk decisions - Define controls frameworks and standards while enabling engineering and operations teams to own their controls; brief the board and audit committee on findings - Own incident governance, including triage, escalation, business continuity, disaster recovery, and regulatory incident reporting - Partner credibly with engineering teams early in design cycles to identify control gaps (access, encryption, logging) before deployment You will build: a unified governance model with clear risk and control ownership; a living, prioritized risk map that drives company decisions; a scalable compliance backbone across countries and regulators; and an automated evidence engine that enables continuous auditing. You will work closely with Legal, the Data Protection Officer, Internal Audit, Risk, and day-to-day with engineering and operations teams. REQUIREMENTS: - 6+ years in security with real GRC ownership - Proven experience running a GRC roadmap in a certified or strongly regulated environment (ISO 27001, HDS, SOC 2, or regulated sectors such as health, insurance, or finance) - Comfort working with certification auditors and ability to explain framework requirements and business rationale to teams - Strong risk judgment; preference for closing real risks over writing policies - Fluency in both French and English BIG PLUS: - End-to-end certification or audit cycle ownership - Experience automating compliance work or eagerness to do so, with perspective on AI applications - Experience presenting risk to senior leaders or boards - Prior mentoring or onboarding experience

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