[Hiring] IV&V Lead and Governance/Risk Assessor @Sabot Consulting

Role Description

Sabot Consulting is assembling an independent assessment team to conduct a one-time retrospective assessment lasting four months of a large, multi-year public-sector enterprise modernization program. This is an assessment engagement, not an implementation. You will not build, configure, integrate, remediate, or operate anything. You will:

• Examine what has already been built
• Review the evidence
• Interview the people who built it
• Reach independent, defensible conclusions for executive leadership

Independence from the program's implementation vendors is a contractual requirement of the engagement. The scope covers nine assessment domains and 65 discrete assessment requirements:

• Program governance and risk
• Business process alignment
• Architecture and design
• Integration and data management
• Mainframe and legacy modernization
• Security and privacy compliance
• Software development lifecycle and configuration management
• Testing and quality assurance
• Operational readiness

The technology environment includes:

• A major cloud customer relationship management platform
• A public cloud infrastructure estate
• An enterprise integration platform
• A content management platform
• Intelligent document processing
• A mainframe lift-and-refactor migration

Deliverables include:

• An assessment management plan
• An initial assessment report
• Recurring status briefings
• Per-domain assessment reports
• Readiness assessments
• An executive briefing
• A final assessment report

You will work full time for four months in a small paired-team structure alongside senior peers. Findings go directly to executive leadership and to a legislative oversight body.

Qualifications

• 12 or more years of experience, including demonstrated leadership of an IV&V engagement or a major independent program assessment.
• Must have personally led one, not merely participated.
• Has authored assessment methodologies, IV&V plans, or independent assessment frameworks.
• Governance assessment depth — evaluating decision rights, escalation paths, program controls, executive reporting, and RAID management (RAID stands for Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Dependencies).
• Has designed a risk severity classification and remediation prioritization method.
• Vendor contract compliance assessment — evaluating a vendor's performance against deliverable timelines, service level agreements (SLAs), and contractual staffing commitments.
• Executive-grade communication. Has delivered unwelcome findings to senior leadership and held the position under pressure.

Preferred

• Benchmarking program maturity against comparable programs in other states. Motor vehicle agency or transportation modernization benchmarking is a significant plus.
• Familiarity with IEEE 1012, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers standard for system, software, and hardware verification and validation.
• Prior expert testimony or formal oversight-body briefing experience.

Company Description

Sabot Consulting is a management consulting company focused on providing technical and management consulting to IT executives and managers in strategic, operational, and project-based practice areas. Our focus on providing expert staff that have the knowledge, experience, and professionalism to engage the client at all levels is the key to our success.