Technical Governance Lead

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🕒 March 19

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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Ardent

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2008

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🔒 Cybersecurity

🏛️ Government

Artificial Intelligence • Cybersecurity • Government

Ardent is a premier technology firm serving the public sector, focused on delivering mission-critical solutions. They specialize in data science and analytics, digital transformation, and location intelligence, helping organizations to make better decisions, modernize their systems, and decode spatial data. Ardent is committed to defending against man-made and natural threats, providing effective solutions such as cloud applications, cybersecurity, and spatial data science. They work closely with federal agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security, to ensure national safety. Their solutions are tailored to thrive in complex environments, proven in case studies, and delivered with the speed and precision required by their clients' missions.

📋 Description

• 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 8+ years of experience in IT, including leadership roles in governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) and technical delivery environments. • Proven experience establishing and enforcing governance frameworks across software development, DevSecOps, and enterprise IT systems. • Strong understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC), CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and deployment practices. • Experience implementing or supporting automated governance, policy enforcement, and compliance validation within engineering workflows. • Demonstrated ability to lead and manage technical teams while driving standardization and process improvement across multiple programs. • Experience with performance metrics, reporting frameworks, and data-driven decision-making models in large-scale environments. • Familiarity with federal or highly regulated environments (e.g., compliance, security, audit requirements). • Strong knowledge of security, compliance, and quality assurance practices within modern engineering ecosystems. • Experience enabling cross-team collaboration and horizontal scaling of delivery practices across enterprise environments. • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence both technical and non-technical audiences.

🏖️ Benefits

• highly competitive benefits • professional development opportunities • exceptional culture that embraces flexibility, innovation, collaboration, and career growth