Location
Holborn Store Support Centre
Hours
Full-time | Part-time
Contract Type
Permanent
Salary
Competitive plus benefits
Job Description
The Senior Technical Controller will help embed a Technology General Controls capability across a complex technology landscape, spanning the Sainsbury’s business.
As a new capability for Sainsburys, the Technology Controls team will need to introduce this skillset into our organisation. This team will ultimately be accountable for measuring, evidencing, and reporting on control compliance across critical technology products and applications across our business.
This new capability / skillset is required in anticipation of new and complex legislative changes planned to be introduced by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) in FY23/24 that Sainsburys will be required to comply with. This will mean establishing the right processes, tools and teams in Sainsburys.
Technology functions work with, empowered teams that contain the skills and support needed to deliver at pace. Our culture encourages teams to innovate, collaborate, learn and take ownership.
What you need to do
Work alongside the Head of Technical Controls Management and Head of Technical Controls to deliver additional legislative change into our business on an on-going basis, ensuring it is robust, comprehensive and repeatable.
Build relationships with business stakeholders and teams within Sainsbury’s Tech to help drive forward adoption of new controls
Support on defining and managing the documentation of the IT General Controls Matrix
You will be comfortable facilitating workshops to analyse, define and prioritise gaps in our current controls and our required position
Work with the broader engineering, product and architecture communities to promote the importance of Technology General Controls to ensure that all new products are built with these controls in mind and upskilling the wider technology and business colleague population on effective controls.
Work with engineering teams and other stakeholders to deliver and maintain a new Technology General Controls framework and processes to ensure legislative compliance by the start of the FY23/24 financial year.
Plan for and engage the expertise of subject matter experts from across the technology division as required to provide support in the delivery of new components that enable us to meet the BEIS requirements.
What you need to know and show
Ideally have knowledge of compliance and regulatory controls and implementing a technology control framework across a large and complex business via relevant experience
This is an emerging area where legislation is still being determined, therefore it is necessary to be able to anticipate potential problems, how these can be resolved and being adaptive to change without compromising legislative changes that are required
Experience of working in a complex, large-scale technology organisation using a mix of on-premise, SaaS and cloud-based technology solutions, able to apply this experience to the context of our business
Knowledge of modern and the application of technical assurance and standards in methodologies
What decisions I can make including budget
Operation and maintenance of an ongoing Technology General Controls framework that meets legislative and external audit requirements
Support we will provide
Head of Technical Controls Management
Access to key stakeholders including CTOs, Directors of Engineering, Information Security and Internal Audit
Engineering teams where systemic work is required to deliver automated controls processing
Access to indirect cross functional teams on a need’s basis
Other resources as required
