Infrastructure Design Governance Manager

Overview

Key Responsibilities

• Project Coordination & Planning:
• Develop high-level project activation timelines, coordinate prioritizing initiatives based on strategic objectives, resource availability, and dependencies.
• Ensure timely activation of projects and validating all prerequisites are fulfilled prior to initiation.
• Maintain an internal approval mechanism, ensuring that all projects receive director-level approval before external discussion or activation.
• Collaborate with department managers to systematically collect and document projects backlog for the current and subsequent years.
• Project Execution & Governance:
• Develop and maintain a structured approach to capture each project’s work breakdown structure, effort estimation, progress weight and delivery timelines.
• Actively oversee ongoing projects, monitor progress with department and project managers, ensuring adherence to timelines, resources, and defined objectives with close coordination with the PMO team.
• Establish and communicate clearly defined governance deliverables to project managers, to effectively track and reflect project statuses internally.
• Create an early-warning system for detecting project risks or deviations, to facilitate escalation and intervention.
• Compliance & Process Enforcement:
• Centralize, documentation, and publish all technical decisions and standards proposed by department managers.
• Ensure the completeness of the I&O standards and procedures. Identify gaps and coordinate with the subdomain managers / department managers to build the missing processes and procedures. Ensure the quality of the delivered documents
• Promote awareness and understanding of new technical standards across the I&O team.
• Develop mechanisms to monitor compliance with technical standards, systematically capturing and reporting deviations.
• Ensure that the I&O Design Team follows defined governance frameworks and technical processes.
• Act as an internal auditor, identifying and escalating non-compliance or deviations from the defined processes.
• Regularly scan and verify all team activities are captured as a 'project'.
• Establish clear documentation and approval workflows for technical decisions through governance bodies.
• Own and Support the effective operation of internal governance bodies (e.g., Architecture Board Meeting, Project Governance, ..etc).
• Supervise and coordinate the implementation of governance frameworks like CIS, ..etc.
• Represent the I&O focal point versus Internal Control.
• Data Management:
• Design and maintain a comprehensive reporting model for all operational topics within the I&O team.
• Identify critical KPIs, ensuring reliable data collection processes (manual or automated) are established and maintained.
• Serve as the guardian of the reporting system, regularly validating data integrity, report quality, KPI’s effectiveness and presentation quality.
• Communication & Collaboration
• Engage proactively with the IT Communication team, managing the I&O Design team's participation in town halls, quarterly roadmap reviews and other public forums.
• Promote a positive brand image of the team by highlighting achievements and successes internally and externally.
• Ensure communication and collaboration well established with Digital business Partners. (Information flow to business partners, budget guidelines, projects’ activation, organization changes ..etc
• Publish the team Organization Chart, capture discrepancies, align with MDM and address inconsistencies.