Technology Governance & Portfolio Strategy Lead (contract)

Title: Technology Governance & Portfolio Strategy Lead Location: Charlotte, NC (Brevard St.) Duration: 12 months Work Engagement: W2 Work Schedule: Hybrid 3 days in office/2 days remote Benefits on offer for this contract position: Health Insurance, Life insurance, 401K and Voluntary Benefits Summary: In this contingent resource assignment, you may: Consult as an expert to develop or influence initiatives and resources for highly complex business and technical needs across Technology Business Services Consulting. Consult on the strategy and resolution of highly complex and unique challenges requiring in-depth evaluation across multiple areas, delivering solutions that are long-term, large-scale and require vision, creativity, innovation, and advanced analytical and inductive thinking. Provide expertise to client senior leadership on innovative Technology Business Services Consulting business solutions. Strategically engage with client personnel. This role will support a newly established function focused on improving governance, visibility, and risk management across a large and complex technology change portfolio. The individual will help build and operationalize a change radar that brings together near-term and long-term technology initiatives, resiliency activities, data migrations, deployment schedules, and other significant technology changes. The goal is to provide an integrated view of planned change and apply a risk lens to identify potential conflicts, dependencies, and areas requiring leadership attention. This is not a traditional Change Management position. The individual will not be responsible for executing organizational change management activities. Instead, the role requires a strong understanding of technology change frameworks and the ability to use that knowledge within technology governance, portfolio management, risk, and strategy execution. The ideal candidate can operate independently in an evolving environment, establish structure where processes are still developing, analyze complex information, and communicate effectively with senior leadership. Key Responsibilities: Help build and operationalize governance, operating models, and execution frameworks for a newly established technology change and investment portfolio function.Develop and maintain an integrated change radar across technology initiatives, including near-term and long-term change, resiliency activities, data migrations, and other major technology schedules.Bring multiple schedules and sources of information together to create a consolidated view of technology change.Apply a risk and governance lens to planned technology activities to identify potential conflicts, dependencies, and areas requiring attention.Evaluate how simultaneous technology activities may interact. For example, identify situations where application changes or deployments could conflict with a planned resiliency test or data center migration.Establish repeatable processes and operating routines that allow the function to move from initial development into sustainable ongoing operations.Leverage knowledge of technology change management frameworks to inform governance and risk decisions without serving as the individual responsible for executing Change Management activities.Analyze portfolio and technology data to develop actionable insights and support leadership decision-making.Create executive-level presentations, reporting, and decision-support materials that translate complex information into clear leadership insights.Partner across technology and business functions to establish governance, influence stakeholders, and drive execution.Use generative AI tools, including Copilot, Cowork, and similar capabilities, to support analysis, prompting, workflow development, process design, and business outcomes.Support broader technology strategy, portfolio governance, organizational effectiveness, and solution delivery activities as the function evolves. Required Qualifications: Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Experience building and operationalizing governance, operating models, and execution frameworks within large, complex organizations. Proven ability to establish repeatable processes, manage ongoing operations, and drive execution in rapidly evolving environments. Strong knowledge of technology change, portfolio governance, risk management, and organizational effectiveness. Experience creating executive communications, leadership reporting, and decision-support materials. Hands-on expertise using generative AI capabilities (Copilot, Cowork, and similar tools) to accelerate analysis, workflow development, process design, and business outcomes. Self-starter with the ability to work across functions, influence stakeholders, and deliver results with minimal oversight.Working knowledge of technology change management frameworks, including how technology changes, deployments, and other major initiatives are governed.Experience performing complex data analysis and translating information into business or technology insights.Excellent written and verbal communication skills.Ability to work independently, navigate ambiguity, influence stakeholders across functions, and deliver with minimal oversight.Strong skills with Microsoft Office tools, particularly Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.Someone who can build reporting in Power BI - maybe has some data and analytics experience Preferred Qualifications Experience working within financial services or another large, highly complex organization.Previous experience within a technology organization, particularly technology strategy, technology governance, portfolio management, command center, or technology risk functions.Technical or engineering experience that provides a strong understanding of technology environments is beneficial but is not required to be a hands-on engineer.Experience with JIRA and Confluence.Experience with Business Intelligence and reporting tools or functions.Experience supporting solution delivery and organizational effectiveness initiatives.