Technical Governance Manager

Sunderland
2 months 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 Analyst (TA) to join this high-performing team.
As a Technical Analyst, 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 remote role with some UK travel

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