Senior Technical Assurance Manager

Role/Team overview 

Sky is establishing a new Enterprise Assurance capability within the Group Risk Office to provide a consistent, risk-based approach to understanding how effectively key policies, controls and governance requirements are operating across the organisation.

This is a unique opportunity to help shape a new enterprise-wide capability from the ground up, influencing how assurance is delivered across Sky and driving greater visibility of control effectiveness and organisational risk.

In this role, you'll partner with senior leaders, policy owners and subject matter experts across Sky's markets and functions, developing a broad view of organisational risks, controls and governance arrangements. You’ll be working alongside a Corporate Assurance Manager to ensure we’re approaching enterprise-wide assurance in a robust, sustainable and consistent manner.

The Technical Assurance Manager is responsible for driving enterprise-wide assurance across Sky's technical policy and control environment, assessing whether key governance requirements are understood, embedded and operating effectively. The role provides independent insight into policy adherence, control effectiveness and areas for improvement, helping strengthen accountability and business ownership of risk and controls.

What you’ll do  

• Lead assurance activity across Sky's technical policy and control environment, providing independent insight into policy adherence, control effectiveness and areas for improvement.
• Assess whether key policies, controls and governance arrangements are understood, embedded and operating effectively.
• Partner with policy owners, control owners and subject matter experts to strengthen business ownership of controls and support sustainable improvement.
• Help shape and evolve Sky's Enterprise Assurance framework, methodologies and standards, ensuring assurance activity is delivered consistently and objectively.
• Identify opportunities to improve assurance effectiveness through better use of data, insight, reporting and automation.
• Translate assurance findings into clear, practical recommendations and reporting for leaders and stakeholders.
• Contribute to enterprise-wide assurance reporting, helping build a consolidated view of control health, emerging risks and improvement priorities across Sky.
• Work closely with the Corporate Assurance Manager to deliver a coordinated enterprise assurance approach across corporate and technical domains.

What you’ll bring  

• Ability to assess the design and effectiveness of policies, controls and governance frameworks, identifying areas of weakness and opportunities for improvement.
• Expertise in translating assurance findings into clear, practical and actionable insight for stakeholders at all levels of the organisation.
• Have a strong understanding of technical governance frameworks, technical policy management, control environments and organisational accountability.

• Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills, establishing credibility and trust across diverse business functions.
• Confidence to influence, challenge and constructively hold stakeholders to account in support of improved control effectiveness and risk management.
• Strong problem-solving capability, identifying root causes, evaluating options and driving sustainable improvements.
• Strong capability to collaborate with subject matter experts across the organisation, building a joined-up view of policy adherence, control effectiveness and assurance activity, and ensuring existing expertise and insight are leveraged to maximise enterprise-wide visibility of control health.
• Comfortable operating within a newly established function, helping shape methodologies, processes and ways of working while maintaining a focus on delivery, continuous improvement and long-term capability development.
• Have a background in technical assurance, technology risk, compliance, audit or control-related disciplines.
• Demonstrated success in assessing technical policy adherence, control effectiveness and the implementation of technical controls.

Benefits and perks 

There's one thing people can't stop talking about when it comes to life at Sky: the perks. Here’s a taster:  

●        Free Sky TV or NOW package, including Sky Sports and Sky Cinema   

●        Pension package with up to 9% employer contribution 

●        Private healthcare with mental health support  

●        Aviva Digital GP and dental insurance  

●        Discounts on Sky products, including Sky Mobile, Sky Broadband,

Sky Glass and Sky Protect  

●        Sharesave and Tech schemes  

●        A range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences 

How you’ll work 

We've adopted a hybrid working approach to give more flexibility on where and how we work. The hybrid working expectations for this role are 3 Days in the office per week. 

Your office base  

Our Sky Group HQ. Equipped with state-of-the-art technology and workspaces, there’s plenty of space to see your big ideas come to life. Here you’ll find 13 subsidised restaurants and cafes. You can re-energise at our gym, catch the latest films at our cinema, get your car washed and even get pampered at our beauty salon.

Our Osterley Campus is just a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station, or you can get one of our free shuttle buses from Osterley, Gunnersbury and Ealing Broadway stations. Plus, there’s free onsite parking available for cars, motorbikes and bicycles.

Who we are 

We’re Sky, a leading media and entertainment company who connect millions with entertainment, sports, news and arts through innovative products and services. Working with us means you’ll be bringing the joy of a better experience to more people, every day. All so we can do better and deliver better for our customers, colleagues and society.

We’re an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We're a Disability Confident Accredited Employer, and welcome and encourage applications from all candidates. We will look to ensure a fair and consistent experience for all and will make reasonable adjustments to support you where appropriate. Please flag any adjustments you need as early as you can. 

Just so you know: if your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a criminal record check. And depending on the role you have applied for and the nature of any convictions you may have, we might have to withdraw the offer.  

     To be eligible for this role you are required to have the appropriate right to work in the UK. Please be aware Sky does not offer sponsorship for this position.