Governance Lead - Digital Grid Management

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The Role Aspen Tech is a global software leader helping industries meet the increasing demand for resources from a rapidly growing population in a profitable and sustainable manner. Our Digital Grid Management software suite helps power and utilities companies achieve superior real-time control, optimization and management for exceptional performance of complex energy networks. As a world leader in the Operations Technology (OT) field, Aspen Tech develops and supplies state-of-the‑art energy management, optimization, and control software solutions to energy utility companies worldwide.

Establish, maintain, and continuously improve governance frameworks, standards, and processes across the project portfolio. Lead portfolio governance reviews to ensure projects are aligned with organizational priorities and strategic objectives. Monitor project health, resource utilization, financial performance, risks, and delivery metrics. Ensure consistency in project execution, documentation, reporting, and escalation processes. Facilitate governance forums, operating reviews, and executive steering committee meetings. Apply risk‑and‑complexity‑based governance, with differentiated oversight and escalation thresholds for large, technically complex, high‑visibility, or contractually sensitive projects.

Evaluate portfolio prioritization, capacity, dependencies, and trade‑offs; recommend corrective actions and resource reallocation aligned with strategic value and delivery feasibility.

Identify, assess, and track project, operational, and business risks across the portfolio. Drive mitigation plans and partner with leaders to address issues before they impact delivery or customer outcomes. Ensure adherence to internal controls, policies, and established governance requirements. Support audit readiness, compliance initiatives, and continuous improvement efforts. Challenge the adequacy of project baselines and controls, including requirements and scope, schedule critical path, cost‑to‑complete, contingencies, technical performance, and contractual milestones.

Oversee governance of material changes, claims, customer commitments, and regulatory or cybersecurity‑related delivery obligations; ensure timely involvement of accountable legal, commercial, and technical experts.

Develop and maintain executive dashboards, KPIs, and performance metrics. Analyze portfolio trends and provide actionable recommendations to improve execution, profitability, and customer outcomes. Prepare governance reports and presentations for executive leadership. Provide data‑driven insights to support strategic decision‑making. Use leading and lagging indicators, forecast accuracy, milestone confidence, earned‑value or equivalent performance measures, and scenario analysis to distinguish emerging risks from reported status.

Partner with delivery leaders, project managers, engineering leaders, and business stakeholders to drive accountability and execution. Support leadership in communicating governance expectations and organizational priorities. Facilitate alignment across cross‑functional teams and help resolve conflicts…