We are looking for a Technical Governance Executive to join Paragon’s Sunderland office.
Paragon is committed to building trusted partnerships with their clients through clarity, accountability, and industry-leading governance, and the Client Governance Team plays a central role in making this happen by ensuring our clients across financial services and insurance experience seamless oversight, transparent reporting, and unwavering operational integrity.
As the Technical Governance Executive, you will sit at the intersection of technology and governance, acting as a trusted interface between the Technology organisation and the wider GRC function. You’ll bring technical insight, analytical clarity, and a proactive mindset to ensure continuous control governance across key client accounts.
This is a client-facing role with occasional UK travel, ideal for someone who thrives on accountability, clarity of communication, and cross-functional collaboration.
Main Duties:
- Evidencing adherence to client-specific audit, compliance, and control requirements
- Driving the closure of technology audit findings and remediation actions
- Providing updates on technology risks and mitigations for quarterly governance packs
- Creating technology dashboards and slide content for client reporting
- Supplying or sourcing subject-matter expertise for client-facing materials and discussions
- Championing client technology needs within Paragon
- Acting as the conduit between Technology and GRC, with a focus on evidence validation
- Communicating key technology events clearly—delivering difficult messages with professionalism and the right tone
- Maintaining a strong understanding of Paragon’s technology structure
- Presenting confidently at client meetings and engaging effectively at all organisational levels
Essential Experience and Capabilities:
- Background in technology business engagement
- Technical, business, and information security understanding
- Broad appreciation of technology through experience or qualifications
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences
- Critical thinking and problem-solving ability
- Working knowledge of IT service management
- Ability to meet deadlines while managing shifting priorities
- Confidence working independently and collaboratively as part of a wider team
This is a hybrid role, based in Sunderland – 3 days office and 2 home (initial full-time training period on-site full-time)
We are an equal-opportunity employer, and we encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration regardless of gender, race, religion, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status.
Please note that due to the high volume of responses we receive, only successful applicants will be contacted.
Salary: £40,000 - £45,000
Contract: Permanent
Location: Sunderland (Hybrid)