Governance Lead

We are seeking a Governance Lead to support enterprise IT governance in a complex regulated environment where effective decision-making accountability and cross-organizational alignment are essential. This role operates across multiple initiatives and stakeholder groups and helps bring structure transparency and discipline to governance processes that guide priorities risks and outcomes.

This individual will lead governance operations and support the design and improvement of governance frameworks decision paths and oversight processes. The role is intended for someone who can work across leadership program financial technical and operational stakeholders to make governance forums effective and to ensure decisions are documented tracked and translated into action.

Job Location
Hybrid with periodic onsite support as needed in Baltimore Maryland.

What Youll Be Doing

• Lead governance support across enterprise IT initiatives including governance boards change control activities and decision forums

• Develop and maintain governance frameworks processes decision paths escalation models and supporting documentation

• Coordinate agendas meeting materials minutes decisions and action tracking for governance bodies and leadership forums

• Support prioritization and triage of initiatives enhancements issues and risks through structured governance processes

• Work across program strategy architecture security and financial teams to ensure governance decisions are informed and actionable

• Support transparency through dashboards reports scorecards and governance status materials OKRs and Metrics

• Help improve governance effectiveness through process refinement performance tracking and follow-up discipline

• Support alignment of governance processes with enterprise priorities compliance expectations and operational needs

What You Must Have

• Bachelors degree in information technology business public administration management or a related field and 5 years of relevant professional experience

• 8 years of experience supporting federal IT governance enterprise governance portfolio governance or similarly structured oversight functions

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters degree in information technology business public administration or a related field

• PMP SAFe SPC ITIL Foundation or similar certification

• 5 years of experience facilitating governance boards decision forums change control boards or executive working groups

• 5 years of experience developing governance documentation such as charters decision logs escalation paths board materials meeting minutes or action trackers

• 5 years of experience supporting prioritization triage or review processes for projects enhancements investments or enterprise initiatives

• 5 years of experience working across cross-functional stakeholder groups that include business technical financial and operational participants

• 5 years of experience supporting risk compliance performance or accountability discussions within governance structures

• 4 years of experience developing or maintaining governance dashboards reports scorecards or performance visibility materials

• 4 years of experience supporting programs in a federal environment or similarly regulated enterprise setting

• 2 years of experience supporting enterprise shared services identity programs or platform governance initiatives

• 2 years of experience supporting investment review portfolio management or strategic planning processes

• Experience working in health IT public sector modernization or large multi-stakeholder enterprise environments

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Pay Range - There are multiple factors that are considered in determining final pay for a position including but not limited to relevant work experience skills certifications and competencies that align to the specified role geographic location education and certifications as well as contract provisions regarding labor categories that are specific to the position.

The pay range for this position based on full-time employment is: