Director, Lifecycle Management

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company®, shortening the path to connectivity to enable the innovations that enrich our work, life and planet.

• Lead the enterprise application portfolio strategy and rationalization roadmap.
• Build and maintain a trusted application inventory that captures ownership, cost, usage, dependencies, technical health, risk, and lifecycle status.
• Apply a consistent decision framework to determine whether applications should be retained, optimized, consolidated, migrated, or retired.
• Develop business cases, total cost of ownership models, and ROI assessments to support portfolio decisions and investment priorities.
• Lead portfolio governance by providing steering committee and executive updates, tracking decisions and milestones, managing program budget and financial performance, and escalating risks, trade-offs, and issues that require leadership attention.
• Oversee execution across the full portfolio lifecycle, including application migrations, data transitions, business readiness, change adoption, user transition planning, and vendor contract exits.
• Operate the application intake governance process by assessing proposed purchases against existing internal capabilities, strategic fit, architecture alignment, total cost, and the risk of unnecessary duplication.
• Define responsibilities and provide guidance to application owners and the Enterprise Architecture community throughout the portfolio lifecycle.
• Drive retirement plans in partnership with application and infrastructure owners.
• Translate complex portfolio data into clear recommendations and trade-offs, building alignment across business and technology stakeholders on a portfolio roadmap for leadership.

• Extensive experience in IT strategy, application portfolio management, enterprise architecture, technology transformation, or consulting, with a track record of leading complex enterprise initiatives.
• Proven experience leading enterprise application rationalization, cost optimization, M&A integration, modernization, or a comparable technology transformation program.
• Strong understanding of application lifecycle management, enterprise architecture, dependency mapping, technical debt, and technology risk.
• Experience developing business cases, total cost of ownership models, ROI assessments, and benefits-tracking approaches.
• Strong program leadership across complex, multi-year, cross-functional initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to influence without direct authority, align stakeholders, and move complex decisions forward in a global, matrixed organization.
• Excellent analytical, executive communication, and change leadership skills, with sound judgment in making portfolio recommendations when data is incomplete or trade-offs are complex.

• As an employee, you become important to Equinix’s success. We ensure all your benefits are in line with our core values: competitive, inclusive, sustainable, connected and efficient. We keep them competitive within the current marketplace to ensure we’re providing you with the best package possible. So, wherever you are in your career and life, you’ll be able to enhance your experience and bring your whole self to work.
• Employee Assistance Program :
  An Employee Assistance program is available to all employees.
• US Benefits:
  
  - Insurance:
  You may enroll in health, life, disability and voluntary plans that are designed for you and your eligible family members.
  
  - Retirement:
  You and Equinix may contribute to a retirement plan to help you plan for your financial future.
  
  - Paid Time Off (PTO) and Paid Holidays:
  You will receive an accrued amount of PTO each pay period along with various paid holidays for you to rest and recharge. Eligibility requirements…