Job Description:
The Director, IT Governance, Audit & Compliance, is a leadership role responsible for serving as the governance, audit and compliance execution arm for IT controls managed under the Technology Experience Center (TEC) organization. This role works with IT Provision Owners to perform the governance, oversight, and reporting for regulatory controls that align under IT Asset Inventory, Change Management, Software End of Life (EOL) and Hardware Removal. The Director ensures controls are consistently designed, executed, evidenced, and audit ready in alignment with internal policy, regulatory obligations, and external audit requirements. The Director partners closely with Marriott IT Control Owners, Product Owners, Application Owners, Infrastructure and Application teams, Security, and Risk Management to facilitate quarterly and annual audits. This role will manage a team who will be responsible for coordinating evidence collection, management for remediation of control gaps, and provide clear, compliance reporting to leadership, Internal Audit, and external regulators. This role requires deep understanding of IT Operations, Software Development Lifecycle, regulatory control frameworks, audit methodology, and process maturity models (e.g., CMMI) and serves as a key advisor to TEC IT Provision Owners and the GIS Compliance Program on compliance risk, control effectiveness, and continuous improvement.
