Delivery Governance Leader

Carrier•Palm Beach Gardens, FL

3d•$117,500 - $234,500•Remote

About The Position

The Delivery Governance Leader – Digital is accountable for defining, operating, and continuously evolving the enterprise-wide delivery governance model for Digital initiatives, while also serving as the Global SOX Coordination Lead for Digital and Technology delivery. This role ensures that digital programs, products, strategic initiatives (AI Roadmap, Build & Run etc.) and platforms are delivered predictably, efficiently, and in alignment with business strategy—while maintaining strong controls over scope, cost, timelines, quality, and risk. As the single point of accountability for Digital delivery governance, SOX program execution and CCM (Change Control Management), this role acts as a strategic bridge between strategy, execution, and assurance. It enables consistent, scalable delivery across the EDPS and Digital organization, while ensuring compliance with SOX controls through close partnership with Internal Audit leadership (Director level and above), PwC, Cyber Security Team and application owners across a global portfolio of 600+ applications. The role also owns Continuous Change Management (CCM) for the Digital landscape, including control execution, defect remediation, preventive maintenance, and disciplined weekly reporting—providing enterprise level visibility, risk mitigation, and audit readiness at scale. The role provides enterprise level visibility and confidence to senior leadership by embedding strong governance, audit readiness, and risk management into day-to-day delivery—ensuring that speed, agility, and innovation are balanced with disciplined controls and regulatory compliance.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree.
8+ years of experience in digital, technology, or transformation delivery.
6+ years in portfolio, program, or PMO governance within digital environments.
3+ years working with agile delivery at scale.
3+ years of experience working with SOX execution and coordination

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business, or related discipline.
Strategic and system thinking.
Strong analytical and data-driven mindset.
Ability to influence without formal authority.
Executive-level communication and storytelling.
Risk management and conflict resolution.
Results-oriented with a continuous improvement mindset.
Requires expert to mastery knowledge obtained through advanced education, combined with experience
Advanced knowledge of related disciplines within work area and able to identify links and potential impact on projects, programs and systems

Responsibilities

Define, own, and continuously enhance the Digital Delivery Governance framework across agile, hybrid, and waterfall delivery models.
Establish and enforce enterprise standards, policies, and guardrails for planning, execution, monitoring, and closure of digital initiatives.
Ensure consistent and fit for purpose application of methodologies (Agile, Scrum, Kanban, PMI) based on initiative complexity, risk profile, and business impact.
Design and operate stage gates, delivery of health checks, risk assessments, and executive delivery reviews to drive predictability and early issue detection.
Provide senior leadership with transparent, data-driven insights on delivery performance, risks, and corrective actions on strategic initiatives like build & run.
Run special projects or strategic initiatives from definition to execution.
Serve as the Global SOX Coordinator for Digital, owning end-to-end SOX execution, audit readiness, and issue remediation across the Digital application landscape.
Act as the primary interface with Internal Audit leadership (Directors and above based in the CIB office) and external auditors (PwC) for all Digital SOX matters.
Coordinate SOX activities across 600+ global applications, working closely with application owners, product teams, AMS partners, and COE leaders.
Lead SOX walkthroughs, evidence reviews, deficiency assessments, and management responses; ensure timely closure of audit findings and control gaps.
Drive standardization, automation, and continuous improvement of SOX processes to reduce operational friction while strengthening control effectiveness.
Provide executive level assurance on SOX compliance, risk exposure, and remediation status.
Govern the digital portfolio, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities, OKRs, and COE capacity.
Facilitate intake, prioritization, and capacity planning processes.
Provide executive visibility into portfolio status, dependencies, risks, and value realization.
Define, track, and report delivery of KPIs such as predictability, velocity, time-to-market, quality, benefits realization, and stakeholder satisfaction.
Implement and maintain executive and operational dashboards (e.g., Power BI, Jira, ServiceNow, Airtable, Asana).
Identify delivery trends, systemic issues, and continuous improvement opportunities.
Proactively identify, manage, and escalate delivery risks, issues, and cross-team dependencies.
Ensure clear ownership and mitigation plans for critical risks.
Facilitate resolution of organizational impediments impacting delivery.
Act as a trusted advisor to senior business, IT, and digital leaders.
Prepare and lead steering committees, executive reviews, and QBRs.
Ensure transparency and alignment on scope, timelines, costs, and value delivery.
Drive continuous improvement of the digital operating and delivery model.
Lead initiatives to standardize, simplify, and automate governance and reporting processes.
Promote data-driven, outcome-focused, and accountability-driven culture.