Compliance CRA - Program Lead

Compliance CRA - Program Lead

Customers are looking for a Program Lead to turn global cyber regulations into a concrete, sequenced technical plan for internal teams to execute against, and to drive that plan through delivery.

The Program Lead will work closely with the customer Product Manager, who owns the broader roadmap and lifecycle. The Program Lead will draft the technical directions and track delivery.

• Draft the technical roadmap and execution plan for CRA compliance and adjust it as requirements evolve.
• Translate regulatory requirements into concrete technical proposals, including what the platform needs to capture or expose for SBOMs, vulnerability handling, and audit documentation.
• Drive engineering tracking for the CRA program by assigning and tracking work, surfacing risks, and keeping delivery on schedule.
• Represent CRA in meetings and stakeholder conversations with legal, compliance, other platform teams, and engineering leadership, ensuring requirements are understood once and built once.
• Coordinate with the Product Manager who owns the core platform to sequence CRA work against everything else on the roadmap.
• Unblock engineers implementing the work day-to-day. The role does not manage the engineers but keeps them moving.
• Work closely with the Product Manager as a technical or program counterpart, including coordinating with other PMs and stakeholders outside the immediate team.

• AI-native in how you work, including outside of code. Default to using AI to track requirements, draft technical proposals and roadmaps, and synthesize stakeholder input rather than doing these tasks manually.
• Comfortable bringing order to genuine ambiguity where requirements are still being written and no precedent exists yet.
• Experienced in translating regulatory or compliance requirements into a technical plan. Direct CRA experience is not required.
• Comfortable being the face of a program, running meetings and managing stakeholders without direct management authority or someone else in the room.
• Technically credible, with the ability to draft proposals that hold up to engineering scrutiny.
• Organized enough to own delivery tracking for a multi-team initiative without letting things slip.
• Strong understanding of software architecture sufficient to draft technical proposals that engineers and the Product Manager can trust, even without owning final sign-off.

• Bachelor's degree in any field, or demonstrated equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated fluency using AI as a default part of how you research, plan, and write.
• Experience in technical program management, technical leadership, or a similar hybrid role, owning both technical direction and delivery tracking for cross-functional or ambiguous initiatives.
• Experience with security, compliance, or regulatory requirements, including SBOMs, vulnerability disclosure, secure-by-design, and audit documentation. Direct CRA experience is a plus, not required.
• Track record working closely with a Product Manager as a technical or program counterpart, including coordinating with other PMs and stakeholders outside the immediate team.
• Strong enough grasp of software architecture to draft technical proposals that engineers and the Product Manager can trust, even without owning final sign-off.

• Cybersecurity Compliance
• CRA Compliance
• Regulatory Requirements
• Software Architecture
• SBOMs
• Vulnerability Handling
• Vulnerability Disclosure
• Secure-by-Design
• Audit Documentation
• Technical Roadmaps
• Technical Proposals
• Technical Program Management
• AI-Assisted Research, Planning & Writing
• Cross-Functional Delivery
• Stakeholder Management
• Engineering Delivery Tracking

About the company

Avance Consulting is a global leader in innovative talent solutions for diverse industries. Since 2007, we have been serving nearly a third of Fortune 500 companies and most of the top 100 technology companies worldwide.

Our team of 700+ experts offers Engineering Services, Information Technology, Digital and Executive Search solutions from our offices in North America, UK, Europe and APAC.

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