GCP Governance And Compliance Manager

Job Title: GCP Governance And Compliance Manager
Location: Knutsford (hybrid - 3x days on-site per week)
Salary/Rate: £646 - £746 Per Day - Inside IR35
Start Date: January
Job Type: Initial contract until 30/06/2026

Company Introduction

We have an exciting opportunity now available with one of our sector-leading consultancy clients! They are currently looking for a skilled GCP Governance and Compliance Manager to act as the primary governance lead for the GCP Landing Zone programme, ensuring all platform components, controls, and processes are established and aligned with our clients policies, standards, and Cloud Controls Framework.

Job Responsibilities/Objectives

• The role will bridge engineering delivery and group governance process, leading on the compliance, audit readiness, and regulatory engagement throughout the programme life cycle.
• Lead the mapping of our clients internal policies, standards, and regulatory requirements to the GCP Landing Zone architecture and delivery artefacts.
• Maintain traceability between Bank's Cloud Controls Framework, Policies & Standards and technical implementation, ensuring all controls are established, evidenced and auditable.
• Ensure automated compliance validation, drift detection, and continuous monitoring are in place and effective.
• Liaise with Controls Assurance and Testing teams to support controls attestation, testing, and remediation activities.
• Serve as the governance lead for the GCP Landing Zone programme, representing the Group Cloud Governance interests in all relevant forums and working groups.
• Prepare and present evidence for key governance approvals (eg, ARB, GTC, CAF, CSO engagements, etc.) at each delivery milestone and ensure this is clearly documented to support the Bank's standard governance engagement model.
• Lead on the regulatory engagement (eg, PRA/FCA, etc) with the aim to gather the appropriate approvals and authorisation to utilise the GCP platform, by collating and providing required documentation and artefacts, drive necessary communication and reporting.
• Onboard the GCP platform on the Group Cloud Governance process, identifying potential gaps, action remediations and transition to the BAU cloud governance team.
• Ensure all governance, controls, and compliance documentation is complete, accurate, and ready for internal and external audit.
• Maintain up-to-date runbooks, operational readiness playbooks, and user guides for governance-related processes.
• Track and report on risk management, gap remediation, and controls mapping status.
• Identify opportunities to enhance governance processes, controls, and reporting in line with our clients evolving cloud strategy.
• Contribute to the development and periodic enhancement of the Cloud Controls Framework and related governance artefacts where required.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.

Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.

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