Digital, Data, and Technology Internal Audit Manager

The Government Internal Audit Agency (GIAA) is driven by its unparalleled access across government to build better insights, better outcomes for our clients.

This role offers a strong platform for career progression within the Agency and the wider civil service, providing opportunities to develop leadership, stakeholder engagement and strategic relationship management skills across government.

The Agencys unique access across the public sector exposes you to different risk and control environments, allowing you to gain insights, apply experience, contribute meaningfully, and continue developing professionally.

The Digital, Data, and Technology Internal Audit Manager is a senior leadership role responsible for delivering a high-quality internal audit programme that provides valuable insights and assurance across government organisations. The role involves leading and managing a portfolio of DDaT audit engagements, overseeing delivery from planning through to reporting, and ensuring audits are conducted in line with professional standards. Through effective engagement management and oversight, the postholder will help clients identify, assess, and manage technology-related risks while strengthening governance, risk management, and control frameworks.

As a recognised DDaT audit Subject Matter Expert, the role provides strategic leadership across complex, high-profile, and cross-organisational audits. The Audit Manager will contribute to the development and delivery of the Internal Audit Plan, ensuring resources are focused on the highest-risk and most strategically important areas. By developing a strong understanding of clients operational environments, strategic priorities, and risk landscapes, the postholder will deliver impactful, evidence-based insights that support improved outcomes and decision-making.

The role also plays a key part in driving continuous improvement, innovation, and professional excellence within the audit function. This includes promoting the use of data analytics and modern audit methodologies, supporting service transformation initiatives, and maintaining high standards of quality assurance. Working closely with senior stakeholders and audit leadership teams, the Audit Manager will champion a risk-oriented culture, strengthen organisational capability, and support the professional development and effective deployment of audit resources across the Agency.

Role responsibilities

• Lead and deliver internal audit engagements in line with the Global Internal Audit Standards (GIAS), providing both strategic oversight and hands-on assurance across the UK Public Sector.
• Drive continuous improvement in audit methodologies, products, and client services, while coordinating assurance activities with stakeholders including the National Audit Office (NAO) and second-line functions.
• Apply strong knowledge of the central government landscape to assess emerging political, economic, technological, regulatory, and legal developments, informing audit planning, engagement delivery, and annual opinions.
• Build strong client and stakeholder relationships, foster collaboration and knowledge sharing, support cross-government insight analysis, and ensure compliance with organisational policies, processes, information security, and data protection requirements.
• Lead and oversee high-quality audits by providing strategic input, supervising engagements, and ensuring all audit work complies with GIAA methodology, quality standards, and audit management system requirements.
• Manage audit delivery and review processes for high-risk and complex assignments, ensuring evidence is reliable and sufficient, recommendations address root causes, and audits are completed on time and within budget.
• Maintain accurate audit documentation and tracking by ensuring recommendations are properly recorded in TeamMate+ (TM+), audit files are complete, and all documentation is closed in line with GIAA standards and approved templates.
• Support stakeholder engagement and assurance reporting by collaborating with client teams and suppliers, delivering independent assurance opinions, and assisting senior leadership with audit strategies, committee reporting, and assessments of governance, risk management, and internal controls.
• Supporting the DDaT audit specialism to deliver insights that help clients identify and manage IT risks, while sharing common findings to improve risk awareness and mitigation across the client base.
• Maintaining strong relationships with key government bodies (e.g., Central Digital and Data Office and Government Security Group) to ensure alignment with functional frameworks and support consistent assurance delivery across GIAA.
• Developing knowledge-sharing tools and exploring new opportunities for the DDaT specialism to enhance capability, upskill staff, and contribute to strategy through new work and income streams.
• Providing leadership and oversight as a People Manager and/or Engagement Manager in a matrix model for a team of auditors across multiple regions. Providing direction, encouraging continuous improvement and innovation, and supporting their development and performance. (Specific training will be given if you are allocated a People Manager role due to the Line Management responsibilities).

1. Proven experience in planning, managing, and delivering risk-based DDaT internal audit portfolios to produce value-adding insights which enable GIAAs client to effectively manage their IT risks.
2. Strong leadership in driving team and organisational change, with a continuous improvement mindset supporting wider corporate objectives.
3. Ability to build and maintain effective relationships at all levels, ensuring high professional standards and client-focused service delivery.
4. Skilled in assessing capability and resource gaps, managing workloads, and developing effective solutions to meet organisational demands.
5. Strong strategic thinking and judgement, able to interpret complex or conflicting information and communicate clear, meaningful audit insights to senior audiences.
6. Experienced in leading DDaT audit teams and influencing senior stakeholders to embed strong governance, risk management, and internal control practices, even in challenging situations.

To apply for this role, you will need to submit your employment history, personal details and provide a statement of suitability of no more than 750 words, referring to the person specification.

Please note only your statement of suitability will be assessed at the sift stage.

Candidates invited to interview will be required to give a short presentation to the interview panel followed by questions. At interview you will be assessed on experience, strengths and the following technical skills:

• DDaT Risk, Control & Governance
• Quality
• Delivery Managing a Portfolio of DDaT Audits