Director, Portfolio Lead

About the role

This role helps align strategy and execution by applying Lean and systems thinking approaches to strategy and investment funding and governance. It involves ensuring alignment between the strategies and portfolios of the EDS or AIA organizations and the overall Enterprise Data/AI strategies.

Responsibilities

• Support and monitor the prioritization of work and drive financial accountability for the products and solutions inside of each portfolio.
• Partner with the Agile operations function in coordinating, sustaining, and improving value streams, where applicable inside the portfolio.
• Plan and monitor IT budgets to ensure alignment with strategic initiatives and/or objectives.
• Forecast future budget needs, measure portfolio performance, and coordinate required compliance activities.
• Operate as the primary conduit for the Chief Data Officer or Chief AI and Analytics Officer in managing the expected financial outcomes for their respective organizations.
• Support and manage the financial operations of the organization, including outlook locks, op planning, monthly reserving, capitalization, financial reporting, and various related items.
• Ensure the investment prioritization process for DAIO owned portfolios is transparent and collaborative.
• Partner with DAIO workforce strategy lead to develop and maintain a workforce strategy within the respective DAIO function, inclusive of vendor partners.

Requirements

• Mature a culture of continuous improvement and innovation, adopting OwnIT, Agile and DevOps mindsets, leveraging Harvest, enabling high performance.
• Coordinate a continuous approach to ensure compliance with audit and regulatory requirements and nondiscretionary initiatives.
• Rally Support and data management.
• Strong leadership and influencing skills at the senior management level.
• Strong financial acumen and knowledge of IT financial management practices.
• Proven ability to develop talent within the team through coaching, opportunities and team growth by fostering an environment that is a destination for talent.
• Proven ability to create a high performing team that has a culture of continuous learning, collaboration, and is focused on business value and outcomes.
• Proven ability to build commitment and empower others, communicate with clarity, courage and timeliness.
• Effective Communication Skills: Written, Verbal, Presentation.
• Strong understanding of Agile and Scaled Agile.
• Strong knowledge of software development processes and procedures to understand team needs includes fundamentals of iterative and incremental development.
• The ideal candidate will possess strong IT financial skills, including the ability to comprehend and monitor technology projects and infrastructure requirements across diverse teams.
• Experience with Agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, etc. SAFe LPM certification a plus.
• Depends on organization, could require management of a small team.

Qualifications

• Five to Seven years of portfolio management experience or equivalent leadership experience.
• Five years of industry experience preferred.

Skills

• Strong financial acumen and knowledge of IT financial management practices.
• Proven ability to develop talent within the team through coaching, opportunities and team growth by fostering an environment that is a destination for talent.
• Proven ability to create a high performing team that has a culture of continuous learning, collaboration, and is focused on business value and outcomes.
• Proven ability to build commitment and empower others, communicate with clarity, courage and timeliness.
• Strong understanding of Agile and Scaled Agile.
• Strong knowledge of software development processes and procedures to understand team needs includes fundamentals of iterative and incremental development.

Benefits

The role offers a Hybrid work schedule, with the expectation of working in an office (Columbus, OH, Chicago, IL, Hartford, CT or Charlotte, NC) 3 days a week (Tuesday through Thursday).

Pay

The listed annualized base pay range is $128,000 - $192,000.