Senior Technical Program Manager, Data & Audit Readiness

Responsibilities

• Act as the program management layer for the Data team during audits, interfacing with Internal Audit coordination teams, Risk, Security, Finance, Compliance, and external auditors.
• Own audit readiness as a continuous practice by maintaining inventories, playbooks, and catalogs between audits.
• Create and manage an inventory of audit tests, expected requests, and response playbooks for Data team-owned systems and processes.
• Maintain a catalog of audit-scoped data sources, including known issues, readiness status, and areas for improvement.
• Support ongoing testing, including mock testing and identifying areas requiring reengineering.
• Coordinate with Finance, Security, and Compliance stakeholders during audit activities.
• Implement tagging and governance processes with Data Governance to identify endorsed datasets and tables considered audit ready.
• Manage the auditor data access role and ensure access is fit for purpose.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in program or project management, audit coordination, or data governance, ideally in a regulated or heavily audited financial-services environment.
• Experience with SOC, SOX, IT general controls, or other regulatory audit frameworks.
• Experience coordinating audit engagements or liaising between technical teams and Internal Audit, Risk, Compliance, or external auditors.
• Strong organizational skills and experience building and maintaining inventories, playbooks, or documentation for recurring cross-functional processes.
• Familiarity with data cataloging, tagging, and governance practices that support audit readiness and control certification.
• Understanding of data access management principles and the ability to evaluate whether access is fit for purpose.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to produce documentation for technical stakeholders and auditors.

Nice to Haves

• Familiarity with audit management platforms such as AuditBoard, Jira, or Workiva.
• Knowledge of automated control design and control automation.
• Experience building or scaling a SOC, SOX, or control system in a hyper-growth or first-year SOX company.
• PMP, CAPM, or similar program/project management certification.