Sr. Director, PDLC Governance

Service Excellence and governance: Provides executive governance and communications to ensure effective resource utilization, prioritization, and lifecycle decision-making. Owns and maintains PDLC standards, procedures, controls, operating models, governance forums, and operational rhythms; continuously evaluates processes and methodologies to improve consistent execution.
Operational Effectiveness: Establishes and monitors OKRs, KPIs, lifecycle health measures, control effectiveness, risks, issues, and remediation activity. Uses insights to prioritize corrective actions, roadmap improvements, and sustainable resolution of execution or control gaps.
Strategic Partner: Manages executive communication and escalations across the organization related to PDLC execution and governance. Serves as a senior escalation point for lifecycle interpretation, stage-gate decisions, exceptions, and deviations within delegated authority, and aligns stakeholders across first-, second-, and third-line functions.
Change management champion: Leads cross-functional change, challenges current ways of working when they limit impact, and builds scalable systems and implementation approaches that improve execution across teams and drive enterprise-wide adoption and maturity of PDLC requirements.
Enterprise PDLC ownership: Defines the PDLC product vision, strategy, roadmap, requirements, and prioritized backlog; ensures lifecycle capabilities evolve based on business, risk, regulatory, technology, and user needs.
Lifecycle controls and stage gates: Defines and governs stage gates, evidence requirements, stage-exit criteria, and lifecycle controls. Maintains clear accountability for lifecycle execution and drives consistent use of requirements across multiple lines of business.
Cross-functional execution: Partners with Product, Program, Engineering, Tooling, and Build Leads to translate business requirements into PDLC capabilities, backlog priorities, process improvements, workflow, and automation while balancing control rigor and product agility.
Risk, audit, and regulatory readiness: Partners with Risk, Compliance, Internal Audit, and other oversight functions to align risk and control activities and evidence expectations while maintaining clear first-line accountability. Represents PDLC governance with executive leadership, auditors, regulators, and internal oversight functions as appropriate.
Support the company's commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.