Job Title: Principal Technical Business Architect Location: Remote Duration: 6 months
About the Role Client is seeking a contract Principal Technical Business Architect to lead the establishment of an enterprise-wide GitHub governance framework. You will coordinate across five major stakeholder groups to create, document, and implement standardized policies for approximately 50-60 GitHub organizations serving approximately 5,000 users. This is a governance and coordination role — not a full development role.
What You'll Do
Drive the GitHub Governance Initiative through a phased roadmap: from visibility and baseline (org audit, identity mapping, policy definition) through automation and enforcement.
Coordinate across stakeholder groups including InfoSec, Product Security (ProdSec/PSCE), IT Identity & Access Management (IT-IAM), Platform Cloud Operations (PCO/Ops), and ALM/DEP.
Define enterprise-wide policies and standards for GitHub organization management, including security settings (2FA, secret scanning, branch protection), access controls, and license optimization.
Create "Policy as Code" specifications (YAML/Rego format) codifying MUST/SHOULD/MAY security requirements in collaboration with InfoSec.
Design and implement scalable, automated governance frameworks — including standardized processes for onboarding new organizations under the Enterprise account, automated policy application to new orgs, and self-service workflows that scale across the enterprise without manual intervention.
Own all compliance deliverables including Enterprise Security Standards (ESS), Privacy Impact Assessments (PIA), and Security Impact Assessments (SIA) for the GitHub platform and related governance tooling.
Develop governance documentation including onboarding guides, decision frameworks (when to use GitHub vs. GitLab), and compliance documentation for IBM audit requirements.
Manage the organizational consolidation of fragmented GitHub orgs into the Enterprise account, eliminating shadow billing and increasing visibility.
Facilitate identity mapping between GitHub users and Client’s employees, supporting SCIM/IBM Verify integration.
Lead change management to roll out standards in phases without disrupting developer workflows, including communication plans and override mechanisms for special cases (e.g., community-managed orgs, Ansible).
Track and report on stakeholder commitments, resource allocation, and progress against the phased roadmap.
Required Qualifications
5+ years of experience in technical program management, IT governance, or a similar coordination-heavy technical role.
Deep working knowledge of GitHub Enterprise (organizations, teams, permissions, security settings, Enterprise accounts, GHAS) or equivalent experience with GitLab at enterprise scale.
Understanding of SCM security best practices: 2FA enforcement, secret scanning, branch protection rules, token management, SCIM provisioning.
Experience creating governance policies and standards for large engineering organizations (1,000+ developers).
Proven ability to coordinate across 4+ stakeholder groups with competing priorities and drive consensus.
Knowledge of Policy as Code concepts (OPA/Rego, YAML-based policy specs) — you need to be able to write the code.
Strong documentation skills — ability to create clear, actionable policy documents and process guides.
Experience with change management in large enterprises — phased rollouts, communication plans, exception handling.
Experience with enterprise compliance processes — ESS (Enterprise Security Standards), PIA (Privacy Impact Assessments), and SIA (Security Impact Assessments) or equivalent security and privacy compliance frameworks.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with identity and access management (IAM) integration, particularly SCIM, SSO, and identity governance platforms (IBM Verify, Okta, etc.).
Background in compliance/audit environments (IBM audit, SOC2, or similar).
Familiarity with compliance automation tools (ComplyTime or similar).
Experience in organizations that manage both upstream open-source and downstream enterprise source control workflows.
Understanding of GitHub Advanced Security and other paid features.
Red Hat or IBM enterprise environment experience is a strong plus.
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