Senior Director of Enterprise Governance and Technology

Herndon, United States | Posted on 10/15/2026

Our mission is to simplify life. At avertra, we simplify and automate complex decision making for the customer centric industries that power the world's economies: utilities, financial services, logistics, and commerce. We are taking on real challenges in today's enterprise, the ones that directly shape the employee and customer experience, and as an AI-forward company we use logic and technology to create a better one.

What we can promise you:

• You will join a global team of curious, committed people building a sustainable, scalable ecosystem that uses logic and technology to create a better experience.
• You will be empowered to drive change, bring ideas forward, and help us become better.
• We will invest in you, giving you room to master your domain and drive excellence.

We are looking for a seasoned, battle-tested leader to unify four critical domains under one mandate:
Compliance & Governance, Cybersecurity, Dev Sec Ops , and Enterprise IT . This is a VP-level enterprise leader who brings calm under pressure and the gravitas to stand behind our security and compliance posture directly with enterprise clients, auditors, and regulators.

This is a broad, high-trust mandate for a leader who can instil confidence in enterprise clients and handle their toughest security and compliance questions head-on. You will keep the systems secure, reliable, and audit-ready, lead the organization through live security incidents with a steady hand, and build the controls and evidence that make SOC, PCI, and ISO reviews confirm what is already true.

You are equally comfortable leading an incident bridge, shaping a technical RFP response, answering a client security review, and setting infrastructure and architecture direction.

Cybersecurity & Incident Response

• Lead the organization through live security incidents and crisis scenarios as the senior incident commander, coordinating response, containment, and recovery with clarity and speed.
• Own the cybersecurity program end to end: strategy, controls, and a security-aware culture that goes well beyond basic monitoring.
• Oversee penetration testing, risk assessments, vulnerability management, and remediation, keeping the organization ahead of emerging threats.

Compliance & Governance

• Own compliance management across SOC, PCI, and ISO, from control design through evidence capturing, remediation, and successful certification.
• Build and maintain the control framework, policies, and documentation that keep the organization continuously audit-ready.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for auditors, regulators, and client security reviews.

Dev Sec Ops

• Lead Dev Sec Ops  practice and tooling, integrating security operations and monitoring into Dev Ops and the delivery lifecycle.
• Drive CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and reliable, repeatable delivery with security built in from the start.
• Champion observability and security monitoring, so issues and threats are caught early and resolved fast.
• Own internal infrastructure, servers, and enterprise tools, ensuring reliable, secure, and scalable service across the organization and its regions.
• Lead infrastructure and architecture direction across cloud and on-premise environments, including containerization and scaling, optimizing for performance, resilience, and cost.
• Define standards for availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity, and hold the organization to them.

Client-Facing & Commercial

• Represent avertra's security, infrastructure, and governance posture directly with enterprise clients, instilling confidence and handling their toughest security and compliance inquiries head-on.
• Actively participate in technical RFP responses, shaping the technical narrative and answering complex security, infrastructure, and compliance questions.
• Partner with commercial and delivery teams to turn our technical strength into a competitive advantage.
• Build, lead, and mentor high-performing teams across compliance and governance, cybersecurity, Dev Sec Ops , and enterprise IT.
• Set clear priorities and standards, develop the next layer of technical leaders, and lead with fairness, candor, and care.

You lead from the front. You build and grow strong teams and set the strategy, and you stay hands-on in the technology, never so far from the work that you lose the plot. Your engineers respect you because you can still do the job, not…