Senior Change Control Lead

AVEVA is creating software trusted by over 90% of leading industrial companies.

Job Title: Senior Change Control Lead

Location: London / Cambridge / Londonderry / Madrid

Employment Type: Full time (Hybrid)

The job

The Senior Change Control Lead is responsible for governing application and platform changes across AVEVA’s business-critical environments, ensuring changes are delivered in a controlled, compliant, and auditable manner that supports regulatory and operational requirements.

The role includes leading the execution of AVEVA’s change control process across in-scope systems, managing pre-CAB (Change Advisory Board) reviews, validating change records in ServiceNow, coordinating CAB participation, and ensuring that change evidence meets PCAOB/SOX compliance expectations. It also involves supporting internal and external audit walkthroughs related to change activity and documentation, while fostering collaboration with technical leads, application owners, QA teams, and other key stakeholders to ensure change-related risks are clearly identified, documented, tested, and implemented in a secure and auditable manner, enabling secure and compliant change delivery across critical systems.

Key responsibilities

• Execute and manage the pre-CAB process, verifying change readiness, rollback plans, and production impact analysis in line with PCAOB/SOX expectations.
• Provide input and raise concerns during CAB meetings, confirming readiness of standard and emergency changes for in-scope systems.
• Monitor all emergency changes to ensure documentation is completed, with business justification, and change validation to meet compliance requirements.
• Maintain a structured audit trail for production changes across PCAOB/SOX applications such as SAP, Oracle, Workday, Salesforce, ensuring traceability and evidence availability for internal and external audits.
• Track recurring change failures, non-compliant submissions, or missing evidence, escalating issues to platform leads or programme managers and supporting their resolution.
• Align change control activity strictly to in-scope systems under PCAOB/SOX, ensuring consistency with ITGC requirements and excluding non-compliant changes from promotion.
• Escalate change submissions that fail pre-implementation checks and work with platform or configuration leads to resolve issues before deployment.
• Act as the first Line of Defence for IT change control, executing controls and ensuring the completeness, accuracy, and timeliness of all documentation prior to second line of defence oversight.
• Mentor and support junior analysts within the change control function, promoting consistency, process maturity, and awareness across all global regions (EMEA, Americas, APAC).

Essential requirements

• Familiarity with ITGC change requirements, particularly under PCAOB/SOX frameworks.
• Experience reviewing and validating change documentation, including approvals, risk summaries, and test evidence.
• Ability to work across multiple PCAOB/SOX systems such as SAP, Oracle, Workday, and Salesforce, coordinating change readiness.
• Strong understanding of first-line responsibilities in IT change governance and how they interact with second-line (e.g., audit/compliance) functions.
• Experience maintaining audit trails and supporting internal or external audits with timely evidence.

Desired skills

·       Certification in ITIL, CISA, CISM, COBIT

·       Experience with CI/CD or DevOps in regulated environments.

·       Exposure to ERP/CRM certification processes and agile delivery.

·       Awareness of change control impacts on data integrity and auditability.

IT at AVEVA

Our global team of 300+ IT professionals is responsible for the systems and platforms that keep AVEVA running. By empowering our colleagues and ensuring the smooth operation of the company, we help keep the business healthy and productivity high.  We also provide key support for the transformation and modernisation efforts globally.

We pride ourselves on a collaborative, inclusive and authentic culture that provides a framework allowing for autonomy, whilst always being available for support and guidance. We respect the differences that each team member brings and seek to include those perspectives in our solutions for our business functions. The energy and sense of purpose is evident when talking to team members, you will feel part of something special from the first day you join.

UK Benefits include:  

Flexible benefits fund, emergency leave days, adoption leave, 28 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), pension, life cover, private medical insurance, parental leave, education assistance program.

It’s possible we’re hiring for this position in multiple countries, in which case the above benefits apply to the primary location. Specific benefits vary by country, but our packages are similarly comprehensive.

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Hybrid working

By default, employees are expected to be in their local AVEVA office three days a week, but some positions are fully office-based. Roles supporting particular customers or markets are sometimes remote.

Hiring process

Interested? Great! Get started by submitting your cover letter and CV through our application portal. AVEVA is committed to recruiting and retaining people with disabilities. Please let us know in advance if you need reasonable support during your application process.

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About AVEVA

AVEVA is a global leader in industrial software with more than 6,500 employees in over 40 countries. Our cutting-edge solutions are used by thousands of enterprises to deliver the essentials of life – such as energy, infrastructure, chemicals, and minerals – safely, efficiently, and more sustainably.

We are committed to embedding sustainability and inclusion into our operations, our culture, and our core business strategy. Learn more about how we are progressing against our ambitious 2030 targets: sustainability-report.aveva.com/

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AVEVA requires all successful applicants to undergo and pass a drug screening and comprehensive background check before they start employment. Background checks will be conducted in accordance with local laws and may, subject to those laws, include proof of educational attainment, employment history verification, proof of work authorization, criminal records, identity verification, credit check.  Certain positions dealing with sensitive and/or third-party personal data may involve additional background check criteria.

AVEVA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to being an exemplary employer with an inclusive culture, developing a workplace environment where all our employees are treated with dignity and respect. We value diversity and the expertise that people from different backgrounds bring to our business.  AVEVA provides reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities where appropriate. If you need reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please notify your recruiter. Determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis.