Federal IT Audit Lead — Strategy & Compliance

barrowwise; Maryland; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Excellent benefits

Growth opportunities

Equal opportunity employer

Diversity in the workplace

Job summary

Barrow Wise Consulting, LLC is seeking a senior IT audit consultant to lead independent audits and assessments for federal IT departments. You will evaluate operations, architecture, and dashboards, conduct structured interviews, and review governance artifacts to produce actionable findings.

You will collaborate with client teams onsite or remotely as needed, attend meetings in the DC area, and guide the development of a prioritized improvement roadmap with executive briefings and reports.

Qualifications

• U.S. citizenship and ability to work on federal contracts.
• Bachelor's degree in a related field.
• 5+ years supporting federal agencies or defense organizations.
• Experience across enterprise architecture, cloud modernization, cybersecurity, or data platform assessments.
• Familiarity with FITARA, OMB A-11/A-130, FISMA, TIC 3.0, FedRAMP, Section 508, and Zero Trust.
• Working knowledge of NIST, ITIL, PMI, and GAO best practices.
• Strong analytical, writing, and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead independent IT audits and current-state assessments for federal IT departments.
• Evaluate IT operations and infrastructure, core technologies and platforms, application development and solution delivery, customer support/help desk, dashboard reporting, project and portfolio management, and compliance with best practices and federal standards.
• Conduct structured interviews with IT leadership, business stakeholders, and operational teams.
• Review policies, SOPs, architecture documents, inventories, SLAs, PPM artifacts, dashboards, performance reports, and prior audits.
• Perform lightweight technical reviews of monitoring tools, configurations, ITSM systems, and PPM tools as appropriate and approved.
• Analyze operational and project metrics, including incident volumes, resolution times, change success rates, project delivery performance, and dashboard usage.
• Assess maturity, identify strengths and gaps, and document root causes across people, process, tools, governance, and culture.
• Develop findings, recommendations, and a prioritized roadmap for improvement.
• Prepare executive briefings, working session materials, and final audit reports.
• Support optional implementation planning, KPI development, and coaching for ITIL, data storytelling, and PPM practices.
• Collaborate with client teams onsite or remotely as needed, including coordination with federal stakeholders.
• Attend meetings in person in the DC Area

Skills

IT audits

Stakeholder interviews

Analytics & reporting

Executive briefings

Team collaboration

Strong writing

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

ITSM tools

PPM tools

Job description

Barrow Wise Consulting, LLC is seeking a senior IT audit consultant to lead independent audits and assessments for federal IT departments. You will evaluate operations, architecture, and dashboards, conduct structured interviews, and review governance artifacts to produce actionable findings.

You will collaborate with client teams onsite or remotely as needed, attend meetings in the DC area, and guide the development of a prioritized improvement roadmap with executive briefings and reports.