Senior Manager, Tech Audit Program

At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create, secure, and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity, from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation. Everything we do centers around people.

We are seeking a Senior Manager, Tech Audit Program to help shape, operationalize, and govern our Technology Audit Program. This role is ideal for a professional who combines strong technology risk acumen
, program and project management discipline
, and a curiosity‑driven mindset to identify where audit focus will be most impactful.

This role operates at the intersection of enterprise risk awareness, audit strategy, and execution quality
. You will help translate evolving technology and cybersecurity risks into a structured, actionable audit plan, lead high‑level planning and scoping for audits, and oversee execution quality across multiple concurrent engagements. While this role does not execute detailed audit testing, it plays a critical role in ensuring the right risks are audited, in the right way, at the right time
.

• Support the design, evolution, and ongoing management of the Technology Audit Program, ensuring alignment to enterprise risk priorities such as cybersecurity, cloud, resilience, data governance, AI and emerging technologies.
• Partner with Internal Audit leadership to identify key areas of the business and technology landscape to include in the audit plan, informed by risk assessments, business initiatives, and external threat trends.
• Translate risk inputs into a clear, risk‑aligned audit roadmap, including prioritization, sequencing, capacity planning, and timing considerations.
• Continuously evaluate whether the audit plan remains aligned to a changing risk environment and propose adjustments as needed.

• Lead high‑level planning and scoping for technology audit engagements, including defining audit objectives, scope boundaries, key risks, and success criteria.
• Partner with Technology and Cybersecurity leaders during planning to develop a shared understanding of systems, architecture, and risk trade‑offs.
• Ensure audit scope is appropriately focused on areas of highest risk and value, rather than overly broad or checklist‑driven coverage.
• Transition audits smoothly to assigned Audit Leads, ensuring clarity of scope, timelines, stakeholder expectations, and execution approach.

• Serve as program‑level project manager across multiple technology audit engagements, establishing and monitoring milestones, timelines, dependencies, and delivery status.
• Coordinate across Internal Audit staff, co‑sourcing partners, and business stakeholders to support efficient, well‑sequenced execution.
• Proactively identify and manage execution risks, scope drift, resourcing constraints, and scheduling conflicts.
• Monitor audit execution for consistency, quality, and adherence to established methodologies and standards.
• Identify execution quality issues early and partner with Audit Leads to course‑correct as needed.

• Establish and maintain program governance, including audit plan status, KPIs, metrics, and risk coverage reporting.
• Support development of Audit Committee and executive‑level reporting, including audit plan progress, emerging risk themes, and capacity considerations.
• Drive consistency and scalability through the use of standardized tools, templates, and planning frameworks.
• Identify opportunities to enhance audit effectiveness and efficiency through automation, analytics, and improved ways of working.
• Contribute to the continuous maturation of the Technology Audit Program and Internal Audit operating model.

• Strong understanding of technology and cybersecurity risk domains, including cloud environments, application architecture, SDLC, data governance, and operational resilience.
• Ability to think strategically about where audit attention…