{"id":4163251,"url":"https://alion.io/job/ey-data-governance-technology-portfolio-programme-associate-director","title":"Data Governance Technology Portfolio & Programme Associate Director","company":{"id":2859,"name":"EY","domain":"ey.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/ey-com","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"SuccessFactors","truth_index":null},"role":"Leadership","role_family":"Leadership","seniority":"head","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Washington, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":180000,"max":324000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":324000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":10,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agile","optional":false},{"name":"Alation","optional":false},{"name":"Collibra","optional":false},{"name":"Databricks","optional":false},{"name":"Informatica","optional":false},{"name":"Platform Engineering","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-12T12:49:07Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-12","last_verified_at":"2026-11-12T12:49:07Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence.\nWe’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go. Join EY and help to build a better working world.\nPosition Summary:\nThe Technology Enablement Portfolio and Program Manager is an Associate Director role within the Global Data Stewardship Office (DSO). The role turns DSO strategy into a coherent, prioritised and executable portfolio of technology initiatives. It provides an integrated view of business and user needs, investment, roadmaps, dependencies, delivery health, resources and benefits so leaders can make informed decisions about priorities, sequencing and funding. The role combines portfolio and program leadership, product management practices and practical understanding of data governance technology across cloud, data platforms, analytics and AI environments. Working with business stakeholders and product and technology teams, it connects discovery and requirements to delivery plans, adoption and measurable business value and control effectiveness. The role directly manages the portfolio framework, planning and reporting, and coordinates delivery readiness; initiative, product and technology leads retain delivery accountability, while business sponsors retain accountability for outcomes and benefits.\nEssential Functions of the Job:\nOwn the integrated portfolio and program management framework for DSO technology enablement.\nEstablish consistent standards for demand intake, triage, business cases and mobilisation. Facilitate discovery with business and user representatives to identify needs, intended data use, Data Owners, governance requirements, technology dependencies and accountable decision makers.\nMaintain the portfolio pipeline, integrated roadmap, investment view, resource plan and dependencies. Partner with product and delivery teams to translate needs into business, functional and non-functional requirements, prioritised backlogs, user stories and measurable acceptance criteria, linking these to releases, integration milestones and adoption plans.\nAssess strategic alignment, value, urgency, risk, readiness, affordability, capacity and delivery constraints.\nFacilitate prioritisation and sequencing decisions, negotiate trade-offs and build agreement on delivery and adoption commitments. Recommend when to start, pause, stop, consolidate or reshape initiatives, documenting the rationale and escalating unresolved priorities to accountable decision makers.\nEstablish proportionate portfolio governance, stage gates, reporting standards and delivery controls within approved decision rights. Coordinate design and delivery checkpoints, testing and acceptance evidence, control evidence, operational readiness and confirmation of required approvals before release by authorised teams.\nOversee plans, milestones, budgets, resources, vendors, risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, changes and decisions across initiatives.\nResolve delivery dependencies with DSO workstream owners, business sponsors, Service Lines, Service Line Quality and the data ecosystem, including the Global Data Office (GDO), Chief Technology Officers (CTOs), Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and Regional Data Stewards. Engage Enterprise Architecture, Finance and Procurement as needed, and provide concise portfolio insight and escalations to sponsors and governance forums.\nAgree benefits, baselines, measures, accountable owners and realisation plans with business sponsors and designated control owners. Monitor business value, user adoption and control effectiveness using their evidence, including trusted data use, control coverage, reduced manual effort and effective sharing and reuse where relevant.\nCoordinate adoption and operational handover with business, product and platform owners, confirming agreed support arrangements and outstanding actions. Use user feedback, delivery lessons and outcome measures to improve portfolio practices and consistent use of tools.\nAnalytical/Decision Making Responsibilities:\nExercises the judgement expected of an Associate Director when demand exceeds funding or capacity, priorities compete and delivery information is incomplete.\nBuilds a reliable fact base, tests strategic fit and expected value, assesses readiness and risk, models options and makes clear recommendations.\nBalances investment, resource, financial, technical and risk constraints across the portfolio rather than optimising individual initiatives in isolation.\nChallenges weak business cases, optimistic assumptions, unclear benefits ownership and unreliable reporting.\nRecommends reallocation, revised baselines, recovery action, pause or closure where continued investment is not justified.\nEscalates unresolved trade-offs, material risks and decisions outside approved portfolio parameters to the appropriate sponsor, governance forum or accountable specialist.\nKnowledge and Skills Requirements:\nStrong portfolio and program management expertise, including demand, investment, roadmap, financial, resource, dependency and benefits management.]\nAbility to apply product management practices, including business and user discovery, outcome-led roadmaps, backlog prioritisation, user stories and measurable acceptance criteria. Adapt Agile and traditional delivery approaches to EY investment, risk, finance and governance requirements without assuming formal Product Owner accountability.\nPractical understanding of data governance capabilities, including catalogues, metadata and lineage, data quality, stewardship workflows, classification, access and lifecycle controls, and responsible data and AI use. Understand how ownership, permitted use, sharing obligations, data contracts, certification and retirement requirements affect initiative scope, sequencing and readiness; specialist depth in every domain is not required.\nAbility to translate governance priorities and business needs into implementable business, functional and non-functional requirements, investment cases and technology roadmaps with governance specialists, product teams, architects and engineers. Understand how machine-readable controls express approved requirements as executable rules, and maintain traceability to delivery milestones, acceptance evidence and benefits.\nAbility to establish proportionate portfolio quality checks, assess reporting reliability and use delivery evidence to support corrective action and continuous improvement.\nEssential: practical proficiency with enterprise portfolio and program management platforms, intake and workflow tools, dashboards, data analysis, scenario planning and reporting automation. Working understanding of cloud and governance-platform delivery dependencies, including APIs, metadata models, lineage and data-quality integrations, is required. Experience with Microsoft Purview or Fabric, Databricks Unity Catalog, Collibra, Informatica, Alation or comparable platforms is advantageous; expertise in each platform or hands-on platform engineering is not required.\nAbility to define and maintain portfolio data definitions, information models, intake workflows, reporting controls and dashboards, and coordinate configuration, automation and testing with tool administrators. Produce practical evidence of reliable portfolio information and reduced manual reporting, rather than relying solely on advisory recommendations.\nStrong commercial judgement, digital fluency, critical thinking, creative reasoning and problem solving.\nStrong executive communication, facilitation and negotiation skills. Explain technical concepts in practical business language, present evidence-based options and help business, Service Line Quality, data and technology stakeholders agree priorities and resolve dependencies.\nAbility to influence stakeholders outside the reporting line and build agreement on delivery, adoption and outcomes across a global, federated organisation.\nApplied familiarity with recognised data management frameworks, such as DAMA-DMBOK and EDM Council DCAM, to inform capability roadmaps, accountability, maturity priorities and evidence; use CDMC where cloud data controls are relevant. Working awareness of relevant standards and practices, such as ISO/IEC 38505, ISO 8000, ISO/IEC 27001, NIST guidance and ISO 15489, sufficient to recognise portfolio implications and engage accountable specialists. These are reference frameworks, not a requirement for formal compliance, certification or expertise in every standard.\nSupervision Responsibilities:\nOperates with a high degree of independence within approved strategy, investment and governance parameters, with direction on major priorities and material accountability decisions.\nProvides portfolio leadership across initiative, product and delivery teams; people management accountability remains with the relevant team leaders.\nOther Requirements:\nWorks globally across the Global Data Stewardship Office and partners with the Global Data Office, Client Technology, Enterprise Technology, Information Security, Global Data Protection, General Counsel’s Office, relevant Risk and Business Administration teams, Service Lines, Service Line Quality, Regions and EY member firms.\nSupports the All In Data governance structure: the Executive Steering Committee sets strategic direction, investment and priorities; the Design Authority maintains design integrity; and the Program Management Office maintains the integrated plan, risks, dependencies, measures and reporting.\nAligns the technology portfolio to DSO strategy, the Global Data Stewardship Policy and priorities approved through relevant EY governance forums.\nDelivers portfolio planning, management information and decision recommendations, and coordinates requirements, delivery readiness and adoption. DSO retains governance intent, business requirements and adoption responsibilities; business sponsors and Data Owners retain their outcome, data-use decision and benefits accountabilities; product teams and platform owners retain their respective delivery and service responsibilities; designated control owners retain control accountability.\nThe role does not assume policy ownership, enterprise architecture authority, security approval, infrastructure engineering, production change authority or production operations. These remain with the authorised policy, architecture, security and technology owners. Portfolio coordination does not replace the decision rights of governance bodies or the accountabilities of workstream leads, project managers and delivery leads.\nJob Requirements:\nEducation:\nBachelor’s degree or equivalent tertiary qualification in business, information systems, technology, data management, finance, program management or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.\nExperience:\n10 or more years of relevant portfolio or program experience, including significant responsibility for data, governance, risk or technology transformation.\nDemonstrated experience enabling data governance technology in partnership with data, governance, stewardship, risk, privacy, records or comparable business functions and technology teams. Experience translating business needs into implementable governance requirements within funded initiatives across cloud, data platforms, analytics or AI environments; this may have been gained in a business, technology or cross-functional role.\nDemonstrated experience applying product management practices and Agile and traditional delivery approaches across a mixed portfolio. Evidence of business and user discovery, requirements development, roadmap and backlog prioritisation, user stories, measurable acceptance criteria, iterative planning, dependency management and approved release coordination in partnership with product and delivery teams.\nExperience with investment prioritisation, integrated roadmaps, executive governance, dependencies across programs, financial and capacity plann...","description_format":"text","description_chars":17921,"description_truncated":true,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":10,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":true},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Flexible vacation policy"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Audit & Assurance Firms","Financial Advisory, Valuation & Restructuring","Management Consulting","Tax Advisory & Preparation"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-12T12:49:07Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":25,"reasons":["conf:0","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-11-12T13:47:01Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":324000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/ey-data-governance-technology-portfolio-programme-associate-director","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/ey-data-governance-technology-portfolio-programme-associate-director.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-12T13:47:01Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":28642,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-13T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":2859},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=2859"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fey-data-governance-technology-portfolio-programme-associate-director"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":2,"usd":0.2},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fey-data-governance-technology-portfolio-programme-associate-director"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fey-data-governance-technology-portfolio-programme-associate-director"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/ey-data-governance-technology-portfolio-programme-associate-director\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fey-data-governance-technology-portfolio-programme-associate-director"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":4163251}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"ey.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":4163251},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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