Introduction
A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.

You’ll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground-breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

Your Role and Responsibilities
As a Governance Support Specialist, you will:

• Support implementation governance structures and processes across the organization.
• Support proper governance, including the creation of policies and guidelines that comply with Federal travel regulations.
• Ensure organizational adherence to governance policies and guidelines
• Review regulations, assess risk strategies and/or overseeing compliance audits
• Facilitate workshops and planning sessions

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience managing and rolling out complex SAP (or other large ERP) programs across multiple business units
• Convey complex governance and compliance issues in a clear, succinct and impactful manner to various stakeholders within the organization.
• Previous experience in the development of policy documentation (particularly information or data standards and guidelines preferred).
• Understanding of governance principles, including familiarity with the core objectives of data governance
• Strong verbal and written skills are essential.
• Ability to adapt to continuously changing environments.
• Facilitates workshops and planning sessions
• At least 2-3 years of federal program governance support
• Candidates local to the DMV area will be required to work onsite in the Reston, VA office Monday-Thursday.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; or equivalent work experience.