Sr. Technical Program Manager, Data & Audit Readiness

- 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.

- 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.

- 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.