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# Senior Technical Architect (GRC) at OneTrust

- **Company:** OneTrust
- **Location:** Madrid, Spain
- **Posted:** 2026-08-17
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-14
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/onetrust/jobs/8113154

## Job description

Strength in Trust

OneTrust’s mission is to enable innovation through the responsible use of data and AI. We believe that ensuring data is trusted shouldn’t slow teams down—it should accelerate what’s possible. This led us to develop the first technology platform for responsible data use in 2016. Today, with AI representing the latest and most impactful expansion of data yet, OneTrust is once again redefining what responsible innovation looks like. OneTrust, the AI‑Ready Governance Platform™, unifies regulatory intelligence, automation, and connected governance workflows so businesses can continue to move at the speed of AI while ensuring good governance to prevent data misuse at scale. Trusted by thousands of organizations worldwide, OneTrust is shaping the future where trusted data becomes a transformative force for business and society.

The Challenge

We are looking for a Senior Technical Architect (GRC) to join our Technical Advisory team (part of Customer Success). This is a customer-facing role for someone who combines strong GRC expertise with attention to details, and the ability to build trust with customers.

You will work with risk leaders, compliance teams, audit, control owners, procurement, and technology stakeholders to understand business objectives and challenges, assess maturity and platform adoption, and provide clear recommendations to unlock business outcomes. You will act as a trusted advisor and product expert without owning hands-on implementation or configuration.

## Your Mission

- Lead outcome-focused discovery, advisory engagements, workshops, and expert sessions with customers.
- Apply your GRC expertise to understand customer objectives, processes, pain points, constraints, and desired outcomes before recommending a path forward.
- Guide customers across relevant capabilities such as IT risk management, compliance automation, enterprise policy management, audit and compliance management, third-party risk, and related GRC workflows.
- Explain solution options, dependencies, trade-offs, and implications for scale at the appropriate level of detail.
- Assess customer readiness, adoption barriers, process maturity, and solution direction; recommend pragmatic next steps.
- Create clear, decision-ready deliverables such as current-state assessments, future-state recommendations, reference architectures, process guidance, and reusable patterns.
- Build trusted relationships and communicate confidently with both technical and executive audiences.
- Partner closely with Customer Success, Product, Sales, Support, Professional Services, and other specialist teams to deliver consistent customer outcomes.
- Capture recurring customer needs and translate them into feedback, enablement content, playbooks, and product opportunities.
- Maintain clear advisory boundaries: provide strategic framing, product expertise, and guidance while enabling customers or delivery partners to execute implementation.

You Are

Your Experience Includes:

- Experience in governance, risk, compliance, technology risk, audit, security assurance, or a closely related discipline.
- Strong understanding of how GRC programs operate within complex organizations, including policies, controls, risk assessments, compliance obligations, audit activities, remediation, ownership, and reporting.
- A business-oriented mindset and the ability to connect GRC requirements to organizational priorities, operating efficiency, risk reduction, and decision-making.
- A technical background or technical fluency in enterprise platforms (ideally SaaS), workflow design, data, reporting, or solution architecture.
- 5+ years of experience in consulting, technical advisory, solution consulting, customer success, business analysis, transformation, or another customer-facing problem-solving role.
- A consultative approach: you listen carefully, ask effective questions, structure ambiguity, and turn complex GRC challenges into clear recommendations.
- Strong learning agility and a constructive attitude, including curiosity, ownership, humility, resilience, and openness to feedback.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to adapt the message for executive, functional, and technical audiences.
- Experience influencing stakeholders and collaborating across functions without direct authority.
- Independent but also a team player
- BA/BS in a related subject is required

Extra Impressive:

- Experience with OneTrust GRC platform or comparable.
- Experience advising enterprise customers on GRC transformation, operating-model design, platform adoption, optimization, or value realization.
- Relevant credentials such as GRCP, GRCA, CRISC, CISA, CISM, or equivalent.
- Experience advising enterprise customers on adoption, optimization, governance, or value realization.
- Experience creating reusable advisory playbooks, maturity models, operating-model guidance, or enablement materials.
- Experience in using software for reporting and task management such as Salesforce

Where we Work

We are embracing an office-first culture, encouraging three days a week in office for most roles, with meaningful opportunities to collaborate and celebrate in person.

Each role may have specific requirements or flexibility depending on the scope of the position, so we encourage you to verify this with your recruiter during your first interview.

## Benefits

As an employee at OneTrust, you will be part of the OneTeam. That means you’ll receive support physically, mentally, and emotionally so that you can do your best work both in and out of the office. This includes comprehensive healthcare coverage, flexible PTO, equity RSUs, annual performance bonus opportunities, retirement account support, 14+ weeks of paid parental leave, career development opportunities, company-paid privacy certification exam fees, and much more. Specific benefits differ by country. For more information, talk to your recruiter or visit onetrust.com/careers.

Resources

Check out the following to learn more about OneTrust and its people:

- [OneTrust Careers on YouTube](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTM-0khp0wIWkO-Bh3IfdSMMOi8606Tl0)
- [@LifeatOneTrust on Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/lifeatonetrust/)

## Your Data

You have the right to have your personal data updated or removed. You also have the right to have a copy of the information OneTrust holds about you. Further details about these rights are available on the website in our [Privacy Overview](https://trustcenter-privacy.my.onetrust.com/policies/39803da3-9bb9-4709-afaf-2ba0a14d09ca?context=eyJkc1BvcnRhbElkIjoiZWM5MmYwZmEtYjFiNi00YzdlLWJmN2ItMDdlNTc2MTQyMGQxIn0%3D). You can change your mind at any time and have your personal data removed from our database. In order to do this you must contact us and let us know you wish to be removed. The request should be made on the [Data Subject Request Form](https://privacyportal-cdn.onetrust.com/dsarwebform/37bcc497-a196-48f1-a08b-e897b5a77859/08a01c64-41fd-4b4e-9d42-cde44371a422.html).

Recruitment fraud warning: OneTrust is aware of scams involving false offers of employment with our company. The fraudulent jobs, interviews and job offers use fake websites, email addresses, group chat and text messages. Be aware that we never ask candidates for personal information, IDs or bank information during the interview process. We do not interview prospective candidates via instant message or group chat, and do not require candidates to purchase products or services, or process payments on our behalf as a condition of any employment offer. Please note that any legitimate interview availability requests will come directly from a OneTrust recruiter with an "@onetrust.com" email address. You may also receive legitimate emails from "@us.greenhouse-mail.io". Recruiters will only reach out to candidates who have applied for a role through our ATS (Greenhouse) or prospects via LinkedIn InMail. Job offers will come from a recruiter and may have a "@docusign.net" email address. For more information or if you have been targeted please reach out to askrecruiting@onetrust.com.

Our Commitment to You

When you join OneTrust you are stepping onto a launching pad — the countdown has begun. The destination? A career without boundaries working alongside a diverse and inclusive crew who is passionate about doing meaningful work. As a pioneer, your voice and expertise will help chart the direction of an entirely new category. Our commitment to putting people first starts with you. Your growth is part of the mission. Our goal is to give you the power to embark on the next phase of your uniquely, unique career.

OneTrust provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by local laws.

## About OneTrust

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: OneTrust provides an AI-ready governance platform that enables organizations to manage privacy, security, risk, data use, and compliance in a unified, automated way.
- **Entity Type**: Private (backed by Insight Partners)
- **Headquarters**: Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- **Founded**: 2016
- **Founders**: Kabir Barday (CEO) and John Heyman (Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) software; privacy management; AI governance; third-party risk management.
- **Target customers**: B2B, primarily large enterprises (used by over half of the Fortune 500).
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Enable innovation through the responsible use of data and AI."

## Products & Services
- **OneTrust AI-Ready Governance Platform™**: A unified SaaS platform that connects privacy, risk, data, and compliance workflows. Key modules include:
  - **AI Governance**: Embed compliance and control across the AI lifecycle.
  - **Privacy Automation**: Enable responsible use throughout the data lifecycle.
  - **Data Use Governance**: Real-time policy enforcement for AI-ready data.
  - **Consent & Preferences**: Streamline consent and preference management.
  - **Third-Party Management**: Automate intake, risk assessment, and mitigation.
  - **Tech Risk & Compliance**: Scale risk and compliance lifecycle management.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (reports of a ~$5.1B valuation in 2021 have been cited but are not officially confirmed).
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of at least $350M (Series A & B from Insight Partners); 2,000+ employees.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Insight Partners (lead investor), with board members including Thomas Laffont (Managing Director at Insight Partners) and David Obstler.
- **Growth Signals**: 13 global offices; recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Privacy Management Software (and in The Forrester Wave™ Q4 2025); customer base includes over half of the Fortune 500.

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-mover advantage** in the privacy governance space (founded 2016).
- **Comprehensive, unified platform** covering privacy, AI, data, risk, and compliance – reducing the need for multiple point solutions.
- **AI-ready governance** that dynamically adapts to evolving regulations and AI use cases.
- **Strong enterprise adoption** and deep integration with major tech ecosystems.
- **Recognized industry leadership** (Gartner Leader, Forrester Leader).

## Strategic Focus
- **AI governance** is the current top priority – building capabilities to prevent data misuse at scale while enabling innovation.
- Expanding the platform to cover new governance domains (e.g., ESG, ethics) and deepening automation for compliance workflows.
- Scaling global operations and partner ecosystems to serve an increasingly regulated business environment.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: People-first, inclusive environment with 9 Employee Trust Groups (Able, Asian, Black, Families, Interfaith, Latin, Pride, Veterans, Women) and a DE&I Council. Great Place to Work certified.
- **Flexibility**: Hybrid working model with opportunities to collaborate in person and virtually. Flexible PTO, company recharge days, volunteer time off, and generous holidays.
- **Benefits**: 14 weeks of parental leave (inclusive of adoption), competitive total packages with pay equity and bonuses, mental health and wellbeing platform, and comprehensive benefits for employees and dependents.
- **Career development**: Robust onboarding bootcamp, paid industry certifications, and cross-functional growth opportunities.
- **Global presence**: Offices in Atlanta, New York, San Francisco, London, Amsterdam, Munich, Madrid, Bangalore, and more – enabling relocation or remote collaboration.
- **Engineering culture**: Emphasis on quality, DevOps, and principal-level roles; innovation is encouraged and recognized through Values Spotlight Awards.

## Sources
1. [OneTrust Careers](https://www.onetrust.com/careers/)
2. [OneTrust About Us](https://www.onetrust.com/about-us/)
3. [OneTrust Main Website](https://www.onetrust.com/)
4. [OneTrust LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/onetrust)
5. [OneTrust Greenhouse Jobs](https://boards.greenhouse.io/onetrust)

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