CRA Compliance Technical Lead

Overview

As a CRA Compliance Technical Lead at QT Technologies Ireland Limited, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring that products meet the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) mandates and broader product security compliance standards. This position calls for a technically skilled leader who can convert advancing regulatory mandates into actionable and automated engineering solutions covering product development, vulnerability management, documentation, evidence gathering, reporting, and governance workflows.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product security, standards, engineering, and release teams to interpret evolving CRA requirements, address process gaps, and develop automated mechanisms to support consistent compliance demonstration.
• Develop and sustain a structured compliance framework focused on automating evidence collection, control validation, and documentation for product security governance.
• Translate complex regulatory language into feasible engineering and operational requirements, embedding compliance into product lifecycle activities while enhancing traceability of requirements against implemented controls and automated checks.
• Regularly engage with compliance tools including risk registers, issue trackers, vulnerability records, SBOM materials, and compliance dashboards.
• Design, implement, and manage scalable automation systems for validating and reporting compliance evidence efficiently.
• Lead cross-functional compliance initiatives by providing technical direction, influencing priorities, and fostering consistent CRA compliance interpretations and implementations across teams.

Required Qualifications

• Extensive experience in cybersecurity engineering compliance, product security governance, security architecture, or managing security programs in regulated product environments.
• Comprehensive knowledge of the Cyber Resilience Act and its application to software/hardware, secure development, and vulnerability handling processes.
• Proven competency in converting regulatory criteria into actionable technical and automation strategies.
• Track record in deploying and maintaining compliance automation, integration, and reporting solutions.
• Ability to lead teams across departments to execute compliance initiatives effectively without direct managerial authority.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, adept at building trust and driving results across different teams.
• Understanding of secure software development lifecycle and embedding security requirements in engineering workflows.
• Experience with vulnerability detection, prioritization, remediation tracking, and governance processes.
• Capability to structure and manage compliance evidence and artifacts audit-readily.
• Strong written communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with security compliance frameworks like RED, NIS2, IEC 62443, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/SAE 21434 in addition to CRA.
• Familiarity with audit processes and preparing evidence for regulatory assessments.
• Knowledge of compliance monitoring tools such as issue tracking and documentation systems.

Minimum Academic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science or a related technical discipline with at least 6 years relevant experience, or
• Master’s degree in the above fields with minimum 5 years experience, or
• PhD in the above fields accompanied by at least 4 years experience.
• Additionally, 3 or more years programming experience in languages such as C, C++, Java, or Python is required.

Location and Benefits

Position based in Cork, Ireland, a vibrant hub with growing international workforce and excellent quality of life. Cork Airport offers access to numerous international and transatlantic destinations.

• Competitive salary with performance-related bonuses and stock options.
• Attractive maternity/paternity leave policies.
• Employee stock purchase scheme and matching pension plan.
• Support for education, relocation, and immigration if required.
• Comprehensive life, medical, income, and travel insurance.
• Subsidized memberships for physical and mental well-being programs.
• Bicycle purchase initiative and multiple employee-run sports and social clubs.

Equal Opportunity Statement

The company embraces diversity and provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified candidates regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected status.

Additional Information

This role requires hands-on technical leadership combining regulatory knowledge, product security expertise, automation capabilities, and process development. The company maintains a strict policy on confidentiality and expects employees to adhere to all security and compliance policies.