Company Description
Colliers is a leading diversified professional services and investment management company. With operations in 68 countries, our 22,000 enterprising people work collaboratively to provide expert advice to maximize the potential of property and real assets to accelerate the success of our clients, our investors and our people.
We are at the forefront of the real estate industry, leading the way and backed by an exceptional record of success. We are building for our future – and yours.
We strive to build our business at a competitive pace by augmenting internal growth with smart strategic acquisitions that increase market share, expand service offerings and extend our geographic reach for the benefit of our clients and shareholders.
For more than 29 years, Colliers has created value for shareholders that has resulted in superior returns and industry growth. Our people also own significant equity in our business, which brings pride of ownership to everything we do. We are passionate, take personal responsibility and always do what's right for our clients, people and communities.
Job Description
We are looking for an experienced and passionate Senior Tech Governance Lead, reporting to the Senior Manager Engineering Operations, for our Technology Hub in Madrid. This is a unique opportunity to become part of the founding team that helps shape the culture, practices, and technical direction. Working in a hybrid model (2 days on-site), you will enjoy significant freedom to innovate and influence the future of one of the world’s largest commercial real estate companies. With the leadership of the Global Technology Hub coming from a background of technology startups, you will benefit from a fast-paced learning environment, high visibility of your contributions and opportunities to shape processes, culture and technology strategies. At the same time, you take advantage of the stability, resources, and reach of a successful global company.
Guided by our global digital strategy, the Madrid Hub collaborates closely with international teams to deliver world-class technology solutions that power the future of commercial real estate.
The Senior Technical Governance Lead is responsible for defining, implementing, and maintaining governance frameworks, standards, and policies that guide global engineering practices. This role ensures that engineering teams across regions build and deliver software in alignment with organizational objectives, regulatory requirements, and industry best practices. Acting as the bridge between engineering, information security, and enterprise architecture, this role enables innovation while reducing risk, ensuring both operational discipline and technical excellence.
You will contribute to global products and platforms that serve both internal and external customers in Commercial Real Estate across multiple regions. You will ensure delivery excellence, engineering quality and great developer experience. You are a hands-on problem-solver with strong design principles, who thrives in a collaborative and agile environment. As a senior member of the Engineering Operations function, you will drive best practices. and mentor engineers while creating the environment for our engineering team to deliver impactful, secure and scalable solutions for our global business.
Governance Frameworks and Standards
- Define and maintain technical governance frameworks covering software development, DevOps, CI/CD, cloud, and QA practices.
- Establish and document global engineering standards for coding, architecture, testing, documentation, and release processes.
- Partner with enterprise architecture and security to ensure alignment with corporate policies and regulatory requirements.
- Continuously review and update standards to reflect evolving technologies and business needs.
Compliance and Risk Management
- Work with the global InfoSec team to ensure compliance with corporate and regulatory standards (e.g. ISO27001, SOC2, GDPR)
- Collaborate with InfoSec to embed secure-by-design and privacy-by-default principles into the SDLC.
- Proactively identify technical or operational risks and implement governance mechanisms to mitigate them.
- Support audit readiness by providing evidence of compliance across engineering teams.
Engineering Excellence and Best Practices
- Promote a culture of quality, reusability, and maintainability through governance frameworks.
- Define and track engineering metrics (e.g., code quality, technical debt, release reliability) in collaboration with the Operations Excellence team.
- Act as a subject matter expert for engineering teams, helping them interpret and apply governance standards effectively.
- Ensure governance supports-not hinders-developer productivity by balancing rigor with agility.
Leadership and Collaboration
- Work closely with DevOps, Software Engineering, Cloud Engineering, InfoSec, and Product to ensure governance is embedded seamlessly in daily workflows.
- Provide guidance and training to engineering managers and teams on applying governance standards.
- Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, translating technical governance into business impact.
- Facilitate governance forums, communities of practice, and knowledge-sharing initiatives across global hubs.
Qualifications
Required Skills/Experience:
- 5-8+ years of professional experience in engineering governance, software architecture or technology risk management roles.
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering or related discipline.
- Strong understanding of software engineering lifecycles, DevOps practices, and cloud-native architectures.
- Proven experience defining and implementing governance frameworks in global technology organizations.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills with a structured approach.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to influence at executive and engineering team levels.
- Demonstrated ability to balance governance rigor with developer productivity and agility.
- Familiarity with compliance frameworks (ISO27001, SOC2, GDPR). And how to operationalize controls in engineering context.
- Agile Development experience (Scrum/Kanban).
- Experience working in distributed or remote teams and using tools such as Jira, GitHub, Miro and Azure DevOps.
- Fluent in English and Spanish.
Preferred Skills/Experience:
- Knowledge of DevSecOps practices and secure coding standards.
- Experience leading governance programs in hybrid multi-cloud environments (Azure & GCP).
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, growing tech environment and to foster change in larger organizations.
