IT Governance Head

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Position Name : IT Governance Head

Location : Gujarat

Qualification : Bachelor / Master's Degree in IT

Experience : 12+ Years

Job Objective:

- To define and drive robust IT governance processes and enhance it from time to time to cater to the maturing needs of the organization.

- To oversee ideation, delivery and closure of critical IT projects, ensuring fulfilment of expectations in terms of timelines, budget and quality.

- To cultivate strategic relationships with partners through effective partner engagement accountable for driving operations excellence and policy compliance.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Overall IT Strategy:

- Partner the CIO in understanding organizations strategic intent and accordingly framing the BUs IT vision, mission and strategy.

- Define the strategic objectives, road map and goals for the Governance function keeping in mind the overall IT strategy and present/ future requirements of the business.

- Define strategy for effective branding of IT services and solutions with the internal customers.

IT STRAP:

- Partner with CIO and contribute in identification of the long-term IT needs of the business basis the leadership vision.

- Engage with businesses to understand their requirements and articulate an IT action plan, validate it with the top leadership and determine key BU-wide IT initiatives; Prioritize strategic IT services and solutions and finalize the IT road map for the year.

IT Performance Metrics:

- Establish key performance indicators to effectively measure the overall IT performance; Enable thorough measure of success of IT activities by implementing appropriate frameworks.

Communication Protocols (IT Branding & Reporting):

- Organize events and participate in forums to interact with IT solution providers to gain new perspective on IT governance/ operations excellence and evaluate if new technologies can be introduced at business level.

- Sponsor initiatives to raise awareness about IT services and solutions and communicate its value contribution to the business.

- Prepare, review and validate collaterals pertaining to IT branding like corporate presentations, brochures, catalogues, product materials, employee communication, invites, handouts.

IT Budgeting (Defining Budgets):

- Establish and share guidelines for budget preparation with business; Generate group IT budget by consolidating budgets from each business and budgeting for Group-level initiatives; Consult CIO and seek approval to finalize budget.

- Formulate 'Guidelines and Process' for cost allocation of group led projects among the beneficiary businesses; Discuss, validate and finalize the updated budgets with each business.

Research and Innovation:

- Continually scan the changing technological landscape, study best practices and introduce mature IT governance frameworks/ operational models at the group and business levels.

- Support creation of a centralized repository through which information about IT research and innovation related to governance can be collected, stored & distributed.

Governance Frameworks & Compliance:

- Define IT governance frameworks and establish governance systems, processes and control systems within Adani aligned to the IT vision.

- Continuously monitor and ensure adherence to defined governance protocols; Advise stakeholders as an SME with regards to adherence from governance perspective.

- Track and monitor adherence to defined budgets; Provide guidance or action plan to overcome deviations if any.

- Revisit operations policies/ frameworks in accordance to changing business, technology landscape and regulatory environment.

Data Policy Governance:

- Collaborate with BU Security Head on regulatory and compliance programs related to data and analytics assets.

- Collaborate with the Group Data Management Head to create policies and controls for the appropriate protection of information assets. Protection should encompass a defined information life cycle, from acquisition or creation to end of life destruction and disposal procedures.

- Support the execution of independent audits, as required.

- Measure master data and reference data for compliance to policy, standards and conceptual models and ensure traceability and self-service data cataloguing for enterprise users. Assure the deployment and management of data quality monitoring practices.

SLA Assurance & Quality:

- Track performance metrics, performance frameworks and IT service levels and ensure adherence to defined standards/ SLAs.

- Identify, communicate and report IT service-level/ IS compliance gaps & improvement opportunities; Recommend action plans for improvement and follow-up on implementation.

Committees and Councils:

- Define structure, composition, frequency of meetings and objectives of different governance committees in consultation with CIO.

- Ensure that committees convene as per the prescribed timelines to evaluate the initiatives and projects undertaken; Participate in governance committees to share insights from a governance perspective.

IT Health Check:

- Define the IT Health-check framework required to have uniform level of IT compliance across the organization.

- Determine the reviews frequency, define dipstick check calendar and enlist pre- requisites in accordance with the disestablished guidelines.

- Ensure timely conduct of dipstick checks as per established timelines; Provide support to ensure smooth conduct of audits.

- Review the IT health-check report, analyse findings & conduct dialogue with the concerned stakeholders for action planning and resolution; Ensure prompt closure on dipstick check observations/ non-compliances.

Benchmarks, Standards & Certifications:

- Share the Benchmarks, Standard & Certifications to be achieved/attained by the department/ sub-departments.

- Plan and support the adoption of Benchmarks, Standards & Certifications as per business priority and report to the CIO.

Partner Management and Engagement:

- Collaborate in partner identification, evaluation, selection and contracting processes for critical projects at the BU level.

- Collaborate with the business stakeholders and concerned COEs to articulate the RFP and share it with the identified partners.

- Evaluate IT services partner basis capability, market presence and strength of their commercial proposals.

- Articulate and finalize the contract in concurrence with the CIO, concerned COEs and partner; Define the Scope of Work, project RACI matrix and the SLAs for the project.

- Track partner performance to ensure project delivery basis expected quality, timelines and budgetary considerations; Address instances of non- performances.

- Conduct periodic partner performance reviews basing frequency of review on criticality of projects; Decide on partner bonus or penalty (as applicable) basis the performance review.

IS/ SLA Assurance:

- Establish robust frameworks to define appropriate SLAs, terms and conditions and consequence management for different projects & partner offerings.

- Identify applicable SLA framework and accordingly determine KPIs to comprehensively track different elements of a project.

- Evaluate costs and risks to determine optimum SLAs, terms and conditions and consequences for the project from the organization's perspective.

- Oversee service catalogue as per the changing circumstances/ new developments to maintain contracts at an optimal level for the organization.

Operational Excellence and Review:

- Forefront initiatives to monitor and drive adherence of IT operations to defined protocols, legal and regulatory compliances at group and business level.

- Identify and report IT service level attainment results and highlight improvement opportunities; Sponsor improvement projects with the objective of bridging the gaps identified.

- Drive continuous process improvements for IT operations and benchmark them with industry standards.

- Manage and maintain Governance-specific application inventory in accordance with APM policies; Perform analysis of application inventory & drive inventory optimization.

Customer Feedback:

- Drive business-wide customer feedback collection for the IT services and solutions; Define tools & techniques to capture and analyze customer feedback.

- Analyse customer satisfaction levels and define strategies/ recommend measures to improve customer satisfaction levels based on feedback received.

People Management:

- Drive a performance driven culture - Set goals, review performance and provide feedback so as to ensure a motivated and committed team.

- Develop employee capability and build functional excellence through various learning and development interventions and mentoring initiatives.

- Foster an environment of learning, excellence and innovation within the team and across teams.