Executive Director - Cloud Portfolio Management

About the role

The Executive Director, Cloud Portfolio Management role is critical to DTCC's cloud ecosystem. This role oversees the strategic initiatives and major programs, ensuring they are aligned with enterprise priorities and platform constraints. It also involves transparent tracking of outcomes and providing executive-level reporting on portfolio health and delivery progress.

Responsibilities

• Own the integrated portfolio view across Cloud Engineering, Tools Development, and Operations.
• Ensure all cloud-related work is clearly defined, decomposed, and sequenced.
• Align cloud-related work to enterprise priorities and platform constraints.
• Provide authoritative, executive-level reporting on portfolio health and delivery progress.
• Lead the quarterly planning and prioritization process across Cloud Engineering, Tools Development, and Operations functions.
• Translate strategic direction into funded, capacity-aware plans.
• Partner directly with Enterprise Finance leadership to align cloud investment with enterprise financial plans.
• Maintain traceability between budget, spend, and outcomes.
• Establish and operate the Cloud Business Office (CBO).
• Lead the Cloud Technical Project Management function.
• Drive resolution of cross-team dependencies and resource contention.
• Ensure delivery risks, issues, and dependencies are identified early and transparently surfaced.
• Escalate prioritization decisions to senior leadership when required.

Qualifications

• Significant leadership experience in large, complex, regulated technology environments.
• Proven track record leading portfolio management, PMO, or business office functions.
• Strong understanding of technology delivery models, financial planning, investment governance, risk, control, and audit frameworks.
• Demonstrated ability to drive enterprise alignment across highly matrixed organizations.
• Strong executive communication and decision-support capability.
• Experience partnering with Finance leadership on budgeting, forecasting, and investment decisions.
• Minimum of 15 years of related experience.

Preferred Experience

• Experience in cloud, infrastructure, or platform engineering environments.
• Familiarity with public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), DevSecOps, and delivery pipelines.
• Experience with enterprise resiliency and operational models.
• Experience with FinOps practices and cost optimization.
• Experience with regulatory and audit response in technology domains.
• Experience leading multi-disciplinary teams (portfolio, financial governance, TPMs).

Benefits

Competitive compensation, comprehensive health and life insurance, well-being benefits, pension / retirement benefits, paid time off, and personal/family care, and other leaves of absence. DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day unique to each team or employee).