Tech Governance Transformation Lead

Company Description

About Grab and Our Workplace

Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp. From getting your favourite meals delivered to helping you manage your finances and getting around town hassle-free, we've got your back with everything. In Grab, purpose gives us joy and habits build excellence, while harnessing the power of Technology and AI to deliver the mission of driving Southeast Asia forward by economically empowering everyone, with heart, hunger, honour, and humility.

Job Description

Get to know our Team:

The Tech Governance team is essential for maintaining robust governance across Grab Tech's personnel, processes, and systems. We focus on implementing effective policies and controls while safeguarding company assets against risks. Our team thrives on collaboration with multiple business stakeholders to enhance governance and drive continuous improvement in technology operations through innovative solutions.

Get to know the Role:

We are seeking a dynamic and strategic Tech Governance Transformation Lead to join our team. Reporting to the Head of Governance, you will work closely with Tech and Engineering teams and other Governance, Risk, and Compliance functions.

You will lead technology governance automation and reporting by designing scalable platforms, data pipelines, and controls that automate compliance monitoring, evidence collection, exception management, remediation tracking, and leadership reporting. You will also serve as a trusted advisor on technology, risk, compliance, and AI matters, embedding security-by-design and governance-by-design across new initiatives while ensuring risks are addressed before production deployment.

This role is based onsite at Grab Malaysia First Avenue office.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

1. Governance Platform Automation and Reporting
   • Design, develop, and operate backend services and automation workflows using Go and Python.
   • Build internal tools and user interfaces using JavaScript/TypeScript and React.
   • Leverage and scale the use of AI-driven tools to automate governance operations, including automated compliance checks, controls monitoring, policy drafting, and automated evidence collection
   • Translate control requirements into automated rule evaluation, evidence collection, exception workflows, remediation tracking, and governance reporting.
   • Continuously improve governance processes by identifying opportunities to automate controls, reduce repetitive manual work, and improve consistency and traceability.
2. Technology and AI Advisory
   • Serve as a trusted advisor to Technology, Engineering, Product, and business stakeholders on technology governance, risk, compliance, and AI-related matters.
   • Provide support for new technology initiatives by preparing and reviewing architectures, data flows, integrations, access models, and deployment approaches to identify risks and recommend appropriate controls.
   • Translate regulatory, audit, security, and governance requirements into practical engineering guidance, functional requirements, technical designs, and automated controls.
   • Promote security-by-design and governance-by-design practices by helping teams embed controls into their solutions.
   • Drive the integration of AI governance into existing tech governance, risk and compliance processes and tooling.
   • Review and constructively challenge proposed solutions to ensure technology, and AI risks are identified and addressed before production deployment.

Qualifications

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• 7+ years of relevant experience in software engineering, platform engineering, automation, internal tooling, or governance technology.
• Relevant experience in technology audit, risk management, compliance, cybersecurity, and internal control principles.
• Translate audit, regulatory, compliance, and security requirements into functional requirements, technical designs, automated controls, and reporting solutions.
• Experience developing or implementing control automation, compliance tooling, security tooling, evidence collection workflows, exception management, or governance dashboards.
• Provide practical advisory support on technology, security, AI, and risk matters to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• With the ability to explain technical, security, and compliance concepts clearly.
• Analytical and solving skills, builds constructive relationships with stakeholders, and initiative to manage priorities while collaborating with others in a environment with evolving priorities

Additional Information

Life at Grab

We care about your well-being at Grab, here are some of the global benefits we offer:

• We have your back with Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.
• With GrabFlex, create a benefits package that suits your needs and aspirations.
• Celebrate moments that matter in life with loved ones through Parental and Birthday leave, and give back to your communities through Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave
• We have a confidential Grabber Assistance Programme to guide and uplift you and your loved ones through life's challenges.

What we stand for at Grab

We are committed to building an inclusive and equitable workplace that enables diverse Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. As an equal opportunity employer, we consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, religion, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.