Team Lead Digital Assurance

Randstad; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Woodside Global Solutions in Bengaluru is seeking a Team Lead - Digital Assurance to establish and mature the digital assurance capability, ensuring effective technology controls, managing digital risk within appetite, and achieving governance obligations.

You will lead a cross-functional team across IT and OT, collaborating with Digital Leadership, GRC, Cyber Security, and Architecture to drive a resilient digital landscape.

Responsibilities

• Establish and lead the Digital Assurance capability and operating model.
• Define assurance methodologies, standards, evidence requirements and quality framework.
• Develop the capability roadmap, metrics and maturity model.
• Lead, mentor and develop a high-performing assurance team.
• Align assurance resources with enterprise risk priorities.
• Develop and govern the annual Digital Assurance Plan.
• Engage with VP Digital, DLT, GRC and Digital Risk to define priorities.
• Maintain a risk-based assurance calendar aligned to governance obligations.
• Ensure assurance coverage reflects emerging technology and cyber risks.
• Oversee Control Effectiveness Testing, verification activities and second-line assurance.
• Ensure assurance evidence is complete, reliable and supports executive decision-making.
• Lead assurance over critical infrastructure, cloud, identity and OT environments.
• Ensure assurance outcomes identify systemic issues and improvement opportunities.
• Champion Assurance by Design across Digital.
• Influence control design so controls are measurable and independently verifiable.
• Lead the evolution towards Continuous Control Monitoring.
• Promote automation, analytics and assurance tooling.
• Govern findings and remediation through to closure.
• Monitor remediation performance and elevate material issues.
• Provide executive reporting on control health, trends and risk.
• Maintain assurance registers, dashboards and governance artefacts.
• Govern Recovery Assurance and Disaster Recovery reviews.
• Ensure recovery plans, testing

Job description

Team Lead Digital AssuranceAbout Woodside Energy

We are a global energy company, providing reliable and affordable energy to help people lead better lives. Join our team at Woodside Global Solutions in Bengaluru where talent, digital expertise, and operational excellence converge to solve complex energy challenges, accelerate change, and reimagine business capabilities to support Woodside's global operations and our role in the energy transition.

Founded in 1954, Woodside established the liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry in Australia 40 years ago and supplies customers around the globe. 70 years on, Woodside continues to be driven by a spirit of innovation and determination.

At Woodside, we know great results come from our people feeling valued, getting the support they need to reach their full potential and working in a psychologically and physically safe work environment. We believe in nurturing talent and providing opportunities for continuous learning and career advancement.

Refer to our corporate website for more information about our different locations and projects: What We Do

About Woodside Global Solutions

Woodside Global Solutions in Bengaluru is being built as a hub of excellence, to drive innovation, digital transformation, and global collaboration.

Working as one Global team, the Woodside Digital team is a trusted partner driving transformation within the organisation. We are bold in our ambitions and resolute in our actions. Through cutting-edge AI, robust cyber security, and advanced data solutions we drive innovation and influence every part of our business.

We are looking for talented professionals who are passionate about technology and eager to make a global impact, helping to shape the future of Woodside together.

About the role

The Team Lead - Digital Assurance is accountable for establishing, leading and continuously maturing Woodside's Digital Assurance capability, providing Digital Leadership with independent confidence that critical technology controls remain effective, Digital risks are managed within appetite, and governance obligations are achieved.

The role develops and governs a contemporary Digital Assurance capability that combines risk-based assurance, technical verification, control engineering, recovery assurance andContinuous Control Monitoring to improve the effectiveness of Digital controls across Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT).

Working collaboratively with Digital Leadership, Global Risk & Compliance (GRC), Cyber Security, Architecture and operational teams, the position develops the Digital Assurance strategy, establishes the assurance operating model, governs the annual Digital Assurance Plan and ensures assurance activities deliver meaningful insight that enables informed business decision-making and continual improvement of Digital resilience.

The Team Lead provides strategic leadership to the Digital Assurance team, fostering a culture of technical excellence, innovation and continual improvement while building organisational confidence in Digital governance, risk management and control practices.

Duties & Responsibilities

Digital Assurance Capability Leadership

• Establish and lead the Digital Assurance capability and operating model.
• Define assurance methodologies, standards, evidence requirements and quality framework.
• Develop the capability roadmap, metrics and maturity model.
• Lead, mentor and develop a high-performing assurance team.
• Align assurance resources with enterprise risk priorities.

Assurance Strategy & Planning

• Develop and govern the annual Digital Assurance Plan.
• Engage with VP Digital, DLT, GRC and Digital Risk to define priorities.
• Maintain a risk-based assurance calendar aligned to governance obligations.
• Ensure assurance coverage reflects emerging technology and cyber risks.

Digital Assurance Delivery

• Oversee Control Effectiveness Testing, verification activities and second-line assurance.
• Ensure assurance evidence is complete, reliable and supports executive decision-making.
• Lead assurance over critical infrastructure, cloud, identity and OT environments.
• Ensure assurance outcomes identify systemic issues and improvement opportunities.

Control Engineering & Continuous Control Monitoring

• Champion Assurance by Design across Digital.
• Influence control design so controls are measurable and independently verifiable.
• Lead the evolution towards Continuous Control Monitoring.
• Promote automation, analytics and assurance tooling.

Assurance Governance, Findings & Executive Insight

• Govern findings and remediation through to closure.
• Monitor remediation performance and elevate material issues.
• Provide executive reporting on control health, trends and risk.
• Maintain assurance registers, dashboards and governance artefacts.

Recovery Assurance & Operational Resilience

• Govern Recovery Assurance and Disaster Recovery reviews.
• Ensure recovery plans, testing