Senior Director of Enterprise Governance and Technology

Lead the technology estate and governance that support Avertra’s enterprise clients. Combine strategic leadership with direct accountability for security, resilience and audit readiness.

Responsibilities

• Own secure, scalable internal IT/support and cloud/on-premise infrastructure across regions; set performance, cost, availability, disaster-recovery and continuity standards.
• Lead cybersecurity strategy, monitoring, controls, awareness, risk assessment, vulnerability remediation and senior incident escalation.
• Lead DevOps, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, observability and internal automation for repeatable delivery and early fault detection.
• Own QA and reusable functional/regression/performance automation, integrate quality gates with delivery and measure escaped defects, coverage and readiness.
• Own SOC 1, SOC 2, PCI DSS and other audits from controls and evidence to remediation/certification; maintain policies and represent the organization to auditors, regulators and client security reviewers.
• Contribute technical RFP/security/infrastructure responses with commercial/delivery teams; lead and mentor IT, security, infrastructure, DevOps and quality teams with clear priorities and fair standards.

Required and preferred qualifications

• Relevant technical bachelor’s; a master’s is advantageous. At least 12 years in enterprise technology and 5 in senior leadership across several relevant disciplines.
• Direct responsibility for achieving/maintaining SOC 1/2, PCI DSS or comparable compliance; production cybersecurity/incident leadership and cloud/on-premise, DevOps and automation ownership at scale.
• Client-facing technical proposals/security reviews, proven team development, deep security/risk/control knowledge and practical AWS/Azure/GCP, CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code skills.
• Quality-engineering and test-automation knowledge; evidence, audit and policy fluency; communication with engineers, executives, clients and auditors, calm decisions and practical business judgement.
• Strong English; Arabic is an advantage. CISSP/CISM/CISA are strongly preferred; cloud/DevOps certifications, regulated-sector knowledge and enterprise software/consulting experience are advantages.

Schedule and travel

• Sunday–Thursday in Jordan’s time zone, with flexibility for global collaboration and incident response.

Benefits and compensation

• Professional growth, opportunities to develop expertise, autonomy to improve processes and collaboration with a global team.

Application and workplace

Work location: Amman, Jordan. Employer posting date: 2026-08-26. Submit your application through the linked official employer vacancy page.