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JOB TITLE: Principal, Technology Strategy & Planning
The Principal, Technology Strategy serves as the portfolio integration leader for an assigned EASE infrastructure portfolio within the Technology Services organization. This role translates infrastructure strategy into clear portfolio outcomes, priorities, and investment choices while maintaining a strategic perspective on major milestones and critical dependencies. You will build alignment across Finance, Architecture, Security, and Data partners to manage risks, capacity pressures, and financial trade-offs. The position requires a product-management orientation to oversee complex, multi-year infrastructure portfolios across a large matrixed organization. Key skills include executive communication, analytical judgment, and experience with cloud, compute, storage, and network domains. Candidates should be proficient with tools like Jira Align, Jira Cloud, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, and Power BI to improve portfolio planning and data synthesis.
Translate EASE infrastructure strategy into clear portfolio outcomes, priorities, measures, and investment choices.
Maintain an integrated view of major roadmaps, milestones, target dates, and expected outcomes.
Identify and manage critical dependencies and risks that impact portfolio outcomes and investment decisions.
Analyze actuals, forecasts, funding needs, and financial risks to frame trade-offs for the portfolio.
Integrate delivery, operational, and financial measures into a concise portfolio view to drive ownership.
Build alignment across various internal partners and influence portfolio direction without direct authority.
Improve portfolio planning, data quality, and operating practices while mentoring others on outcome orientation.
What we're looking for
7+ years of related experience.
Experience translating infrastructure or technology strategy into portfolio priorities, investments, and measurable outcomes.
Experience leading a complex portfolio, product, platform, transformation, or cross-functional body of work in a large matrixed organization.
Ability to maintain strategic oversight while using delivery, operational, dependency, and financial detail to inform decisions.
Strong product-management orientation, including outcome definition, prioritization, roadmap management, value assessment, and evidence-based adjustment.
Working knowledge of budgets, forecasts, actuals, capacity, investment trade-offs, benefits, and financial risk.
Strong executive communication, facilitation, analytical judgment, negotiation, and influence without direct authority.
Broad understanding of infrastructure technologies including cloud, compute, storage, network, platforms, workplace technology, reliability, and security.
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Business, Finance, or a related field (preferred).