Senior Director, Enterprise Governance

Quality Technology Services•Ashburn, VA

About The Position

The Senior Director, Enterprise Governance sets the enterprise vision and operating model for governance, portfolio standards, change management, and execution excellence. This seasoned leader serves as a trusted senior advisor to enterprise executives, owns governance and decision-support practices across the transformation portfolio, and leads leaders and subject-matter experts. The role strengthens the organization’s ability to prioritize, govern, and deliver strategic initiatives at scale. The Senior Director will build and run a Center of Excellence (COE) that equips the enterprise with practices and foundational frameworks to scale effectively, adapt to change, and remain resilient as the organization grows. The role partners across the organization to establish enterprise standards, portfolio intelligence, decision-making practices, and strategic portfolio management capabilities.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in business, technology, operations, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
Eleven or more years of progressive experience in enterprise PMO, governance, portfolio/program leadership, transformation, strategy execution, or related disciplines.
Four or more years of direct people-leadership experience, including leading experienced professionals and/or people leaders.
Demonstrated success designing and scaling enterprise governance, standards, executive decision forums/frameworks, change management practices, and portfolio-management capabilities.
Executive-level influence, financial acumen, strategic judgment, and organizational-change leadership.
Experience developing reporting for and/or engaging with the most senior-level executive leaders, including the board, C-suite, and executive advisors.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree and/or PMP, PgMP, PfMP, P3O, MSP, Prosci, SAFe, Lean Six Sigma, or related certification.
Experience building a governance or portfolio COE in a high-growth, complex, capital-intensive environment.
Experience with strategic portfolio management platforms, enterprise dashboards, and benefits/value-realization reporting.
Experience developing reporting for and/or engaging with the most senior-level executive leaders, including the board, C-suite, and executive advisors.

Responsibilities

Set the multi-year strategy and operating model for enterprise governance, standards, portfolio intelligence, change management, and delivery maturity.
Establish decision-making frameworks and executive forums to align portfolio priorities and guide tradeoffs across capacity, enterprise and change impacts, dependencies, readiness, and value realization.
Define and own enterprise governance practices, including decision forums, escalation models, accountability mechanisms, and performance cadences.
Establish and implement enterprise policies and standards, in partnership with key leaders, across program and portfolio management, change management, reporting, and other practices that strengthen enterprise scalability and resilience.
Establish change management strategies and resourcing approaches across the portfolio, aligning support to initiative complexity, business impact, and organizational readiness.
Lead the implementation and evolution of strategic portfolio management capabilities and tools, including portfolio and value realization reporting, analytics, dashboards, and executive insights.
Lead and develop directors, managers, and senior professionals, building succession, expertise, and scalable COE capabilities.
Partner cross-functionally to drive effective implementation and adoption of enterprise standards, program reporting, and enabling tools.
Represent enterprise governance in strategic and annual planning, risk, investment, and transformation discussions.
Perform other duties as assigned.