Leads third-party security assessments and risk remediation while advancing automated TPRM workflows, supply-chain visibility, continuous monitoring, and program governance.
Senior Security Engineer - GRC (PCI)
📜 Description
- Provide operational support and serve as the focal point for assigned certification scopes.
- Interpret certification requirements and coordinate recurring tests.
- Track action plans arising from audit findings and identified gaps.
- Coordinate with internal and external teams on control implementation, scope, evidence, and deadlines.
- Improve certification processes and partner with product, engineering, and IT teams to streamline audits.
- Integrate compliance requirements into processes and systems with global teams.
🛠️ Requirements
- Knowledge of cybersecurity frameworks such as PCI DSS, SOC 2, DORA, and NIST.
- Experience supporting security certifications or audits, including scoping and evidence collection.
- Experience with internal controls, compliance, and audit remediation plans.
- Experience evaluating and implementing controls in cloud environments such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Strong analytical and communication skills, including translating complex technical concepts.
- Comfort using AI and automation while critically validating outputs.
- Advanced written and spoken English; Spanish is a plus.
- PCI ISA, PCIP, CISA, CISM, or CISSP certifications are a plus; regulated financial services and multi-country certification experience are also valued.
✨ Benefits
- Chance of earning equity at Nubank
- Food/ Meal Card (Vale-Refeição and/or Vale Alimentação)
- Public Transportation Commuting Benefit (Vale-Transporte)
- NuCare – Psychological, Financial and Legal Assistance Program
- Life Insurance
- Medical Plan
- NuLanguage – Language Course Program
- Nucleo - Our learning platform of courses
- Extended Parental Leave
- Daycare Allowance
Full job description
About Nu
Nu serves more than 140 million customers, guided by a mission to fight complexity and empower people. The company has been leading an industry transformation through innovative products and human-centered services.
Proprietary technology and data at scale power Nu’s digital platform, built to promote financial access, advancement, and transparency. Its business model thrives on customer love and lower costs, feeding a flywheel of growth and profitability.
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About the role
The Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) team enables Nubank to remain compliant with legal, regulatory, and internal requirements, while continuously identifying, classifying, and monitoring risks and providing strategic insights and performance evaluation to leadership. We collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to align our technology security strategy with Nubank’s overall business objectives, embedding security in business decisions so that Nubank can grow safely.
We make sure identified risks are mitigated and that leaders, inside and outside the IT and Security Business Unit, can make decisions based on risk. The focus of the security compliance squad is to ensure Nubank complies with regulations across countries and entities, and holds PCI DSS certifications, alongside other frameworks.
You will be responsible for
Provide operational support and act as a focal point for the assigned certification scope.
Interpret certification requirements applicable to your scope and execute and coordinate recurring tests required by the certification.
Register, manage, and track action plans arising from audit findings or identified gaps.
Maintain a day-to-day interface with audited and external teams on control implementation, scope alignment, evidence collection, and deadline agreement.
Propose and implement improvements in internal certification processes.
Build and maintain strong partnerships with product, engineering and IT teams to make audits and assessments smoother and less disruptive.
Collaborate with Engineering, Product, IT and global teams to integrate compliance requirements into processes and systems.
We are looking for a person who has
Solid knowledge across cybersecurity domains and frameworks such as PCI DSS, SOC2, DORA, NIST and similar standards.
Prior experience supporting security certification or audit processes, including end-to-end management, scoping, and evidence collection.
Experience with internal controls, compliance functions, and action plans follow up arising from audit findings or identified gaps.
Experience evaluating and implementing controls in cloud environments (for example AWS, GCP, Azure).
Strong analytical skills to interpret complex data and turn findings into actionable insights.
Strong communication skills to translate complex technical concepts.
Comfort using AI and automation as the default way of working, while validating outputs critically.
Advanced English, written and spoken, for work with global teams and external assessors. Spanish is a plus.
Nice to have
Certifications such as PCI ISA or PCIP, CISA, CISM or CISSP.
Experience in a regulated fintech or financial services environment.
Experience with multi country or multi entity certification programs.
Location for this opportunity (City, Country)
São Paulo, Brazil
Campinas, Brazil
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Benefits
Chance of earning equity at Nubank
Food/ Meal Card (Vale-Refeição and/or Vale Alimentação)
Public Transportation Commuting Benefit (Vale-Transporte)
NuCare – Psychological, Financial and Legal Assistance Program
Life Insurance
Medical Plan
Dental Plan
NuLanguage – Language Course Program
Nucleo - Our learning platform of courses
Extended Parental Leave
Daycare Allowance
Parental Consultancy
Work-from-home Allowance
Gym Partnerships
30 days of paid vacation
Relocation Assistance Package, if applicable
Work Model for this Role
Hybrid 2-3 times/week: Our hybrid work model brings us to the office at least twice a week, on strategic days designed to maximize team connection and collaboration. For more details, visit https://building.nubank.com/nu-hybrid-work-model/
Our recruitment process may involve the use of artificial intelligence–enabled tools, such as automated interview transcription and analysis, to support the evaluation process. Artificial intelligence is not used to make final hiring decisions; all decisions are made by human reviewers.
To maintain a consistent and fair process for every candidate, Nu does not provide individualized technical feedback. See how our policy works here
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