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# Technical Program Manager, Data & Audit Readiness

- **Company:** Power & Data, LLC
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $96,000.0 - $192,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** JIRA, Data Governance, Data Security, Meta-Data Management, Alwayson, IT General Controls (ITGC)
- **Published:** August 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.workingnomads.com/job/go/1772899/

## About the Role

* 7+ years of experience in program or project management, audit coordination, or data governance, ideally within a regulated or heavily audited environment in financial services.
 * Experience with SOC, SOX, IT general controls, or other regulatory audit frameworks.
 * Experience coordinating audit engagements or acting as a liaison between technical teams and Internal Audit, Risk, Compliance, or external auditors.
 * Strong organizational skills, with experience building and maintaining inventories, playbooks, or documentation for recurring cross-functional processes.
 * Familiarity with data cataloging, tagging, or governance practices, and how they 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, with the ability to produce documentation that satisfies both technical stakeholders and auditors.

Nice to haves

 * Familiarity with audit management platforms (e.g., AuditBoard, Jira, Workiva).
 * Knowledge of automated control design and control automation.
 * Prior experience building or scaling a SOC, SOX or a control system in a hyper-growth or first-year SOX company.
 * PMP, CAPM, or similar program/project management certification.

## Description

* Act as the program management layer for the Data team during audits, interfacing with internal Audit coordination teams (Risk and Security), Finance, Compliance, and external auditors.
 * Own audit readiness as a continuous, always-on practice. Proactively maintaining inventories, playbooks, and catalogs between audits, not only once one is actively underway.
 * Create and manage an inventory of audit tests, expected requests, and response playbooks for Data team-owned systems and processes.
 * Maintain a catalog of data sources in scope for audit, including known issues, readiness status, and areas for improvement, supported by ongoing testing including mock testing and identification of areas requiring reengineering.
 * Align closely with business stakeholders such as Finance, Security, and Compliance to provide guidance and coordination support during audit activities.
 * Implement tagging and governance processes, in collaboration with Data Governance, to identify endorsed datasets and tables considered 'audit ready.'
 * Manage the auditor data access role to ensure access is fit for purpose.


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