Infrastructure Governance Lead

**Infrastructure Governance Lead** (Contract)

Duration: 12 Months (Possibility for extension)

Location: London/Hybrid (3 days per week on site)

Rate: A highly competitive Umbrella Day Rate is available for suitable candidates

Role Profile

The VP Technology Resilience Governance Lead provides senior governance and programme oversight for TRR-related audit, regulatory and resilience-uplift activity.

The role establishes an integrated view of requirements, deliverables, accountable owners, dependencies, risks, evidence and closure status, while coordinating delivery across technology and resilience stakeholders.

Key Accountabilities:

• Own the integrated governance view for TRR-related PwC and FCA remediation requirements, including scope, owners, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues and supporting evidence.
• Establish and maintain traceability from source requirement through planned deliverable, accountable owner, approval, evidence and closure decision.
• Provide constructive challenge over recovery-plan completeness, runbook standards, recovery sequencing, failover and failback controls, validation criteria, dependency management and plan ownership.
• Govern the TRR recovery-testing framework, annual plan, risk-based prioritisation, severe-but-plausible scenario coverage, end-to-end validation and safe-execution controls.
• Coordinate cross-functional engagement with Operational Resilience, BCM, Infrastructure, Applications, Cyber, Technology Risk, Third-Party Management, service owners and programme teams.
• Chair or support delivery forums, ensure decisions and challenge are documented, and escalate material delivery risks, blockers or evidence gaps through the appropriate governance route.
• Oversee the quality and completeness of evidence packs submitted for audit, assurance or regulatory milestone validation, without replacing independent review or accountable-owner approval.
• Ensure lessons learned and root-cause analysis are translated into owned, dated and traceable actions, with themes reported to senior management.
• Produce concise decision-focused management information on delivery status, vulnerabilities, overdue actions, test outcomes, evidence readiness and closure risks.

Skills & Experience:

• Substantial experience in technology resilience, disaster recovery, IT service continuity, operational resilience or a related technology-risk discipline within a regulated environment.
• Demonstrable leadership of audit or regulatory remediation, including requirement interpretation, governance, evidence traceability and closure management.
• Strong understanding of recovery planning, technical runbooks, recovery sequencing, backup restoration, failover/failback, dependency mapping and recovery testing.
• Ability to translate complex technical and regulatory matters into clear governance decisions and executive-level reporting.
• Strong programme governance, stakeholder leadership, risk management, written communication and constructive-challenge skills.
• Working knowledge of relevant operational-resilience and ICT-continuity expectations. Professional resilience, risk, audit or service-management qualifications are desirable.

Candidates will need to show evidence of the above in their CV in order to be considered.

If you feel you have the skills and experience and want to hear more about this role ''apply now'' to declare your interest in this opportunity with our client. Your application will be observed by our dedicated team.

We will respond to all successful applicants ASAP however, please be advised that we will always look to contact you further from this time should we need further applicants or if other opportunities arise relevant to your skillset.

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