E-Comms Surveillance PMO Lead

About the role

Huron is a global consultancy that collaborates with clients to drive strategic growth, ignite innovation and navigate constant change. Through a combination of strategy, expertise and creativity, we help clients accelerate operational, digital and cultural transformation, enabling the change they need to own their future. You'll help banks, asset management and insurance organizations own their future by helping them to transform and create new business models to meet changing customer needs and drive sustainability. Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future. As a member of our Belfast‑based Compliance & Surveillance team, you will play a key role in supporting client projects focused on electronic communications (E‑Comms) surveillance uplift and modernisation, You will become a trusted partner to senior stakeholders across Compliance, Surveillance Operations, Technology, Data, InfoSec, and Conduct Risk, ensuring that multi‑year E‑Comms transformation programmes are governed effectively and delivered with precision. Your Role: A PMO Leader Driving E-Comms Surveillance Transformation As a member of our Belfast‑based Compliance & Surveillance team, you will play a key role in supporting client projects focused on electronic communications (E‑Comms) surveillance uplift and modernisation, You will become a trusted partner to senior stakeholders across Compliance, Surveillance Operations, Technology, Data, InfoSec, and Conduct Risk, ensuring that multi‑year E‑Comms transformation programmes are governed effectively and delivered with precision. Responsibilities may include: - Programme Governance: You will run core programme governance routines including steering committees, decision forums, RAID reviews, and change ‑ control processes. You will maintain disciplined oversight of milestones, risks, actions, and dependencies across a multiyear roadmap. - Roadmap & Transformation Management: You will develop and maintain the E ‑ Comms Surveillance roadmap, covering new channel onboarding, data ‑ ingestion modernisation, regulatory uplift, retention enhancements, and legacy platform decommissioning. - Stage ‑ Gate & Control Frameworks: You will implement programme stage ‑ gates, including use ‑ case signoff, lexicon/model validation, data ‑ quality assurance, and go/no ‑ go processes for new surveillance channels. You will ensure alignment to global surveillance strategy and regulatory expectations. - Stakeholder Engagement & Communication: You will communicate programme updates, risks, and decisions to senior stakeholders, delivery teams, and governance forums. You will prepare SteerCo materials, executive updates, and regulator ‑ facing documentation where required. - Operating Model & Workflow Enhancements: You will support improvements to the surveillance operating model, including alert workflow design, permitted ‑ channel governance, channel attestation processes, and data ‑ retention controls. - Data, Technology & Controls Alignment: You will partner with Technology, Data, and InfoSec to ensure secure and compliant ingestion, storage, monitoring, and retention of electronic communications data across all regions and channels. - RAID & RACI Ownership: You will own and maintain central RAID logs and RACI models, driving clarity of ownership, cross ‑ functional alignment, and risk mitigation. - Cutover & Readiness: You will lead cutover readiness for new E ‑ Comms channels and capabilities, including go/no ‑ go criteria, fallback design, operational readiness checks, hypercare planning, and BAU handover . - Training & Adoption: You will support training and user ‑ adoption planning related to new surveillance tools, workflows, and communication monitoring capabilities. The Profile We're Looking For : An E-Comms Surveillance Transformation Professional We are looking for candidates with strong programme management expertise and deep familiarity with communications surveillance. Desired background includes: - Experience : Demonstrable experience delivering E‑Comms or broader Communications Surveillance initiatives - including onboarding new channels (WhatsApp, Teams, Slack, Bloomberg Chat, mobile/voice), deploying lexicon or behavioural‑risk models, and migrating from legacy surveillance platforms. - Technical & Functional Knowledge : Experience with leading surveillance tools such as Shield or Compliance Accelerator, or equivalent platforms used in global financial institutions. - Regulatory Awareness: Strong understanding of global communications‑surveillance regulatory obligations, data‑retention policies, electronic-communications governance, and behavioural-risk indicators. - Communication & Stakeholder Skills: Strong communication skills with the ability to present complex updates, influence senior stakeholders, and drive alignment across global delivery teams. - Problem‑Solving & Delivery: Ability to manage competing priorities, handle ambiguity, structure programme risks and