Technical Governance Lead

Position Description

Ardent is seeking a Technical Governance Lead to join our dynamic team. The Technical Governance Lead is responsible for establishing, maintaining, and enforcing governance frameworks, policies, and standards across IT systems and processes within the scope of the contract. This role leads all technical activities, including establishing and enforcing software development, testing, automation, and security, compliance with organizational and regulatory requirements while driving consistency, efficiency, and accountability. The Technical Governance Lead requires a minimum of eight (8) years of experience, including leadership roles in governance, risk, and compliance, and managing technical teams and frameworks.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Establish, implement, and enforce technical governance frameworks, policies, and standards across IT systems, software delivery, and engineering processes.
• Lead governance oversight for software development, testing, automation, DevSecOps, and security to ensure alignment with organizational and regulatory requirements.
• Drive adoption of Team Managed Deployment (TMD) practices to enable efficient, secure, and high-quality software delivery across the enterprise.
• Oversee automated policy enforcement and prescriptive remediation strategies to reduce maturity gaps and eliminate manual compliance bottlenecks.
• Ensure consistent application of quality, security, and compliance controls across all systems and programs without reliance on manual intervention.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to enable horizontal delivery, improve collaboration, and standardize engineering practices across multiple programs.
• Define and monitor governance KPIs, ensuring continuous improvement in deployment speed, release quality, and compliance adherence.
• Lead the design and implementation of automated performance metrics and reporting frameworks to support data-driven decision making.
• Increase visibility and transparency across products, portfolios, and delivery pipelines in alignment with agency policies.
• Establish feedback loops and governance mechanisms that continuously improve delivery, testing, and operational performance.
• Provide leadership and direction to technical teams, ensuring accountability, consistency, and adherence to governance standards.

Requirements

• Minimum of eight (8) years of experience, including leadership roles in governance, risk, and compliance, and managing technical teams and frameworks.