GRC Technical Governance Executive

Sunderland

2 weeks ago

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At Paragon, we’re committed to building trusted partnerships with our clients through clarity, accountability, and industry-leading governance. Our Client Governance Team plays a central role in making this happen—ensuring our clients across financial services and insurance experience seamless oversight, transparent reporting, and unwavering operational integrity.

We’re now looking for a Technical Governance Executive to join this high-performing team.

As a Technical Governance Executive, you will sit at the intersection of technology and governance, acting as a trusted interface between our Technology organisation and the wider GRC function. You’ll bring technical insight, analytical clarity, and a proactive mindset to ensure continuous control governance across key client accounts.

This is a client-facing role with occasional UK travel, ideal for someone who thrives on accountability, clarity of communication, and cross-functional collaboration.

What You’ll Be Responsible For

Evidencing adherence to client-specific audit, compliance, and control requirements
Driving the closure of technology audit findings and remediation actions
Providing updates on technology risks and mitigations for quarterly governance packs
Creating technology dashboards and slide content for client reporting
Supplying or sourcing subject-matter expertise for client-facing materials and discussions
Championing client technology needs within Paragon
Acting as the conduit between Technology and GRC, with a focus on evidence validation
Communicating key technology events clearly—delivering difficult messages with professionalism and the right tone
Maintaining a strong understanding of Paragon’s technology structure
Presenting confidently at client meetings and engaging effectively at all organisational levels

What You’ll Bring

Essential experience and capabilities:
Background in technology business engagement
Technical, business, and information security understanding
Broad appreciation of technology through experience or qualifications
Excellent written and verbal communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences
Critical thinking and problem-solving ability
Working knowledge of IT service management
Ability to meet deadlines while managing shifting priorities
Confidence working independently and collaboratively as part of a wider team

Devonshire is an equal-opportunity employer, and we encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration regardless of gender, race, religion, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status.

We recognise how challenging this current job market is for candidates, and Paragon Talent Solutions are therefore striving to provide the best candidate experience we can.

If you are interested in this opportunity, we kindly request that you apply via this LinkedIn advert, as opposed to sending us an email or LinkedIn direct message.

We are eager to ensure that each candidate application is considered fairly, and receives a consistent experience. Unfortunately, we cannot ensure this standard if you enquire about a role via email or LinkedIn message, as it falls outside of our established process

This is a hybrid role 3 days office and 2 home (initial training period on-site full time)

£40-45K

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