Enterprise Engineering Platforms Leader - Strategy & Execution

VARITE is looking for a qualified Appl. Portfolio Manager 2 for one of its clients located in Overland Park, KS

WHAT THE CLIENT DOES?
A global engineering, procurement, construction, and consulting company that provides infrastructure and energy solutions. It specializes in sectors such as energy, water, telecommunications, and environmental services.

WHAT WE DO?
Established in the Year 2000, VARITE is an award-winning minority business enterprise providing global consulting & staffing services to Fortune 1000 companies and government agencies. With 850+ global consultants, VARITE is committed to delivering excellence to its customers by leveraging its global experience and expertise in providing comprehensive scientific, engineering, technical, and non-technical staff augmentation and talent acquisition services.

Job Title:
Appl. Portfolio Manager 2
Duration: 06
Location:
Overland Park, KS
Work Mode:
Onsite
Pay Rate Range: $75.00 - $82.70/hr on W2

HERE'S WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• The Enterprise Engineering Platforms Leader serves as the strategic leader responsible for defining and delivering the initiatives, roadmap, vision, and operational excellence for client’s enterprise engineering systems and desktop application ecosystem. You will provide forward looking leadership across the full application lifecycle ensuring these platforms enable high performance engineering outcomes at scale, which includes architecture, deployment, optimization, and sustainment.
• As the steward of client’s engineering technology landscape, you bring deep expertise in complex engineering application environments and modern delivery architectures. This role aligns technology capabilities with business strategy, ensuring that engineering teams are equipped with resilient, intuitive, and future ready solutions.
• This leader orchestrates collaboration across a broad network of stakeholders to anticipate needs, drive innovation, and deliver integrated solutions that strengthen client’s competitive advantage. Through strategic planning, governance, and continuous improvement, this role ensures client’s engineering systems remain a catalyst for operational excellence, digital transformation, and long term enterprise value.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure all technology maintenance and end-user support needs for deployed enterprise engineering systems are resolved in a timely manner; driving continuous improvement and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and Corrective Action opportunities as needed.
• Define and maintain application & technology roadmaps which ensure deployed solutions are secure, resilient, scalable, and aligned with vendor life cycles & the overall client portfolio strategy.
• Partner with business, technical, and software/service providers to translate business & technology needs into potential solutions with costs/benefits analysis, achievable project timelines, and client-standard deployment architectures.
• Manage relationships with key software providers such as Autodesk, Bentley, Hexagon, AVEVA, Esri, and more to achieve client business outcomes through vendor solutions and services.
• Lead and develop a small team responsible for executing work within the portfolio, ensuring timely delivery of work in alignment with business priorities and strategic goals.
• Provide oversight to IT service providers to ensure engineering systems are continuously available, performant, and supported per business needs, IT policies, and contracted KPIs/SLAs.
• Collaborate with business/discipline stakeholders to package and deploy application updates to client workstations which keep engineering client applications current and free of defects or vulnerabilities.
• Coordinate with business owners, software providers, and client software procurement teams to ensure applications are continuously rationalized, licenses are right-sized, and contracts renewed.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO WIN:
Skills:
Preferred Qualifications:

• U.S. citizen capable of being exposed to data classified as CUI (Controlled Unclassified Information).
• Experience managing the application lifecycle for desktop, cloud, and hosted engineering solutions from key software providers:
  Autodesk, Bentley, Hexagon, AVEVA,…