Federal IT Audit, Controls, and Compliance Lead

Federal IT Audit, Controls, and Compliance Lead

Department of War and federal government operate some of the most consequential and heavily scrutinized IT environments in the world—and behind every Authorization to Operate (ATO), every clean SOC 1 opinion, and every successful federal audit stands a hands‑on compliance expert who designs controls that work, tests them with rigor, and proves their quality. That expert is you. This is a high‑impact player‑coach role for a strategic doer who also knows how to lead.

You'll thrive owning the full audit lifecycle end‑to‑end, while simultaneously building, mentoring, and elevating the delivery quality and impact of compliance professionals who follow your lead. You'll personally execute SOC audits with a sharp focus on IT General Controls (ITGC/GITC) and Business Process Controls (BPCs), including designing, testing, continuously improving, and evidencing the operating effectiveness and quality of controls across access management, change management, computer operations, system development, cybersecurity, and the business processes that depend on them.

• Align governance programs to FISMA, NIST 800-53, NIST 800-37, RMF, and the NIST Cybersecurity Framework; author and mature System Security Plans; build evidence packages; serve as authoritative voice with external auditors, federal regulators, IG reviewers, and DoW client assessors.
• Set the bar for quality across every deliverable (POA&Ms, control narratives, readiness assessments, and continuous monitoring artifacts); drive a culture of continuous improvement grounded in proven quality frameworks.
• Move forward where others get stuck, coach team members through complex audits, partner directly with security engineering, legal, privacy, and risk teams to close gaps, ensuring compliance is a competitive advantage and a measurable mark of quality.
• Lead, mentor, and develop audit and compliance teams, instilling a culture of quality and continuous improvement; track POA&Ms, findings, remediations; run continuous control monitoring (Con Mon); conduct internal readiness assessments; prove compliance to federal authorizing officials.

• 10+ years of experience in information security, audit, and compliance.
• 5+ years of experience executing formal Federal audit programs.
• Experience executing SOC 1 audits for IT General Controls (ITGCs) and Business Process Controls (BPCs), including design, testing, and evidencing control quality across access management, change management, IT operations, system development, and business processes such as financial reporting, transaction processing, segregation of duties, or management review.
• Experience with audits and control assessments aligned to FISMA, NIST 800-53, NIST 800-37 (RMF), NIST CSF, and DoD requirements.
• Ability to effectively liaise for external auditors, federal regulators, IG reviewers, and DoD client assessors with executive‑level communication.
• Bachelor’s degree.
• Secret clearance (or eligibility for it).

• Experience at a Big4 audit firm (Deloitte, EY, KPMG, or PwC) with SOC reporting, ITGC, and business process control quality testing rigor.
• Experience supporting Department of War, DoD, or Intelligence Community audit and compliance programs, including DoD RMF, eMASS, and Authorization to Operate (ATO) processes.
• Experience with FedRAMP, CMMC
  2.0, DFARS compliance programs, including quality and process maturity frameworks such as CMMI Levels3‑5, ITSM and ITIL practices, and GRC‑ITSM integrated platforms (RSA Archer, ServiceNowGRC, Xacta, eMASS).
• Experience testing business process controls in financial systems such as ERP, billing, or procurement, including walkthroughs, control matrices, and risk‑and‑control matrices.
• Experience defining career paths, building training plans, scaling a compliance team within a federal contracting environment.
• Knowledge of cloud compliance in federal environments such as AWS Gov Cloud, Microsoft Azure Government, or Google Cloud for Government.
• Knowledge of AI governance and emerging federal compliance standards (NIST AI RMF, OMB AI guidance such as M‑24‑10).
• CPA License or Certified Internal Auditor Certification.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local, or international law.

Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

Projected compensation range: $112,800 – $257,000 (annualized USD).