Felix Joy

Managing Engineer-GRC| Generative AI & Copilot‑Enabled Engineering | Risk, Compliance & Enterprise Systems

Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

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Experience

  • Managing Engineer-GRC at Allstate Northern Ireland
    Aug 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 11 mos

    Leading enterprise Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) platforms within a highly regulated environment. Responsible for day‑to‑day operational leadership and modernisation of multiple risk, compliance, and security‑related applications, supporting business‑critical decision‑making and regulatory outcomes. I operate at the intersection of technology, risk, and data, partnering closely with engineering, security, risk, compliance, and business teams to deliver reliable, well‑governed enterprise platforms. My role focuses on platform ownership, orchestration, and outcome delivery, working with specialist teams and tools rather than directly operating security tooling. Key responsibilities and impact: Driving platform modernisation initiatives to improve stability, scalability, and digital product health Establishing Digital Product Health Scores and operational metrics to improve visibility into platform performance and risk posture Applying AI‑assisted engineering practices to improve productivity and reduce manual effort, including: Using Microsoft Copilot and GitHub Copilot to support code development, analysis, documentation, and testing Leveraging Generative AI responsibly for troubleshooting, automation, and knowledge acceleration Building and consuming APIs and integrations to support secure, auditable data flows between enterprise systems Producing clear technical documentation and operational reporting, translating complex technical risks into business‑friendly insights Technologies & approaches: Generative AI • Microsoft Copilot • GitHub Copilot • APIs • Python (AI‑assisted) • SQL • Power BI (foundational) • Microsoft Fabric (foundational) • Cybersecurity (consumer/orchestration) • GRC Platforms • Risk & Compliance Technology • Enterprise Systems • Agile / DevOps

  • Allstate India (6 yrs 3 mos)
    • Technology Lead II - Software Engineering
      Apr 2022 - Jul 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos

      Working as the EGRC lead

    • Lead Consultant
      Apr 2019 - Mar 2022 · 3 yrs

      Working on various archer core solutions, on demand applications, integrations, API utilization projects, mail merge, custom objects, advance work flow. Regulatory Corporate Obligations ISO 27001 Business Continuity Suppler Management SOX COmpliance Model Risk Management Privacy Issue Management State Privacy Law

    • Senior Consultant
      May 2017 - Mar 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos

      Issue Management, Supplier Risk Assessments

  • Senior Consultant at Capgemini
    Sep 2015 - May 2017 · 1 yr 9 mos

    Working as RSA Archer consultant, design, install, upgrade archer instances Archer Administration Archer Implementation: GRC 6.1, 5.5 Archer Upgrade Enterprise management Security Operations Management Solution Threat Management Compliance Management policy Management RSA Archer - SA integration SecOps 1.2, 1.3 GRC 6 RSA Security Analytics Qualys guard Archer - Qualys integration

  • Rsa Archer - GRC Consultant at First Advantage India
    Nov 2014 - Sep 2015 · 11 mos

    Archer Instance setup (designing,Installation) Archer Administration Servers and database administration Archer Core solution deployment and development Archer On Demand Application Development LDAP Integration Requirement gathering, designing User,roles,group creation Development,testing of On demand and core applications Vendor Management Solution Business Continuity Management Enterprise Management Compliance Management Policy Management Incident Management Questionnaires, Data feeds, Reports, Dash Board, Work spaces, iViews, Notifications,packaging

  • iGATE (2 yrs 6 mos)
    • Senior Software Engineer
      Apr 2013 - Oct 2014 · 1 yr 7 mos

      Working as RSA Archer developer from last 1.5 years.Developing / supporting projects developed in RSA Archer out of box solution. Have good knowledge in On demand applications,Core applications,Data Driven Events, Calculated fields, Custom Objects, Reports, Notifications, Data Feeds,Questionnaires, Packaging – Deployments, Access roles, Custom work flow design, Production support, archer web api's, Archer unit testing and integration testing, requirement gathering.

    • Software engineer
      May 2012 - Mar 2013 · 11 mos

      Trained in J2EE and supported the BFS project " identity management access application". Archer support & development