Technology Governance & Portfolio Strategy Lead

Position:
Technology Governance & Portfolio Strategy Lead

Location:

Charlotte, North Carolina Duration:
Contract Job  Job Overview:
In this contingent Technology Business Services Consultant 5 role, you will serve as a senior-level consultant and strategic advisor within a newly established technology governance and portfolio strategy function. You will help design, build, and operationalize governance frameworks, operating models, and execution routines that improve visibility, risk management, and decision-making across a large and complex technology change portfolio. This position requires deep experience in technology governance, portfolio management, and risk analysis, as well as the ability to synthesize complex data, create executive-ready communications, and leverage generative AI tools to accelerate analysis and outcomes.

You will operate with a high degree of independence, partnering closely with senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to drive structure, consistency, and strategic execution across technology initiatives. Responsibilities:
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 long-term, large-scale solutions that demand vision, creativity, innovation, and advanced analytical and inductive thinking. Provide subject matter expertise to senior leadership on innovative Technology Business Services Consulting solutions and strategic technology portfolio decisions.

Strategically engage with client personnel across technology and business functions to understand needs, align priorities, and drive execution. Help build and operationalize governance frameworks, operating models, and execution frameworks for a newly established technology change and investment portfolio function. Develop and maintain an integrated “change radar” that consolidates near-term and long-term technology initiatives, resiliency activities, data migrations, deployment schedules, and other significant technology changes.

Aggregate multiple schedules and data sources into a consolidated, portfolio-level view of technology change to support leadership visibility and planning. Apply a risk and governance lens to planned technology activities to identify conflicts, dependencies, overlaps, and areas requiring leadership attention or escalation. Evaluate how simultaneous technology activities may interact, such as identifying conflicts between application changes, deployments, resiliency tests, or data center migrations.

Establish repeatable processes, operating routines, and governance cadences that transition the function from initial build-out to sustainable ongoing operations. Leverage knowledge of technology change management frameworks to inform governance and risk decisions, without directly executing organizational change management activities. Analyze portfolio and technology data to generate actionable insights, trends, and recommendations that support strategic and operational decision-making. Create executive-level presentations, dashboards, reports, and decision-support materials that translate complex technical and portfolio information into clear, concise leadership insights.

Partner across technology, business, risk, and strategy teams to establish governance structures, influence stakeholders, and drive alignment on priorities and execution. Use generative AI tools (including Copilot, Cowork, and similar capabilities) to support analysis, prompting, workflow development, process design, and improved business outcomes. Support broader technology strategy, portfolio governance, organizational effectiveness, and solution delivery activities as the function matures and evolves.

Operate as a self-starter, working independently in an evolving environment, creating structure where processes are still developing, and driving results with minimal oversight. Contribute to continuous improvement of governance practices, portfolio reporting, and risk assessment methodologies across the technology organization.

Qualifications:

7+ years of Information Technology experience in support of Business Services, or equivalent experience demonstrated through work, consulting, training, military experience, or education. Proven experience building and operationalizing…