Director, Portfolio & Strategy

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BDO is a firm built on a foundation of positive relationships with our people and our clients. Each day, our professionals provide exceptional service, helping clients with advice and insight they can trust. We offer an award‑winning environment that fosters a people‑first culture with a high priority on your personal and professional growth.

The Director, Enterprise Application Portfolio & Strategy is a senior technology leadership role responsible for defining, governing, and evolving the firm’s application portfolio in support of business strategy and enterprise transformation. You will be a strategic partner and an execution leader, translating business priorities into an actionable technology roadmap while shaping strategy through insight, influence, and strong market awareness.

This role is responsible for application and product roadmaps, portfolio intake and prioritization, investment planning, modernization strategy, delivery governance, and value realization across the portfolio. The Director will be a trusted technology advisor to senior business stakeholders, helping plan the firm’s technology direction, assess new opportunities, and guide decisions on enterprise platforms, transformation initiatives, and emerging capabilities, including AI.

• Own the application portfolio strategy and multi-year roadmap, aligning investments to business priorities, enterprise strategy, architecture direction, and delivery capacity.
• Partner with business leaders and peer technology leaders to identify, assess, prioritize, and sequence initiatives that drive measurable business value.
• Guide decisions on where to invest, modernize, simplify, rationalize, or retire application capabilities across the portfolio.
• Maintain an informed view of market trends, emerging technologies, and industry-leading practices to shape the firm’s future technology direction.

• Serve as a trusted technology advisor to business leaders and senior stakeholders, shaping technology priorities and long-term direction.
• Build strong relationships across the business and technology organization to keep priorities, investments, and execution plans aligned.
• Translate business strategy into practical roadmaps, investment recommendations, and executable plans.
• Provide direction and recommendations on new technologies, enterprise platforms, and transformation initiatives.

• Lead a clear, transparent intake and governance model for new initiatives, products, and enhancements.
• Align business demand, funding, capacity, and sequencing decisions to maximize value and support strategic outcomes.
• Maintain an integrated view of cross-portfolio dependencies across applications, data, platforms, vendors, and delivery teams.
• Drive disciplined prioritization and trade-off decisions based on value, risk, complexity, and enterprise impact.

• Provide leadership and accountability across the application portfolio from concept and business case through design, delivery, implementation, and adoption.
• Partner with architecture, engineering, security, data, operations, and delivery leaders to ensure solutions are scalable, secure, supportable, and aligned to enterprise standards.
• Ensure effective release readiness, transition planning, and operational acceptance for solutions entering production.

• Lead portfolio modernization strategies that improve platform health, reduce technical debt, and enable greater agility and business value.
• Identify and recommend practical uses of AI and automation to improve solution delivery speed, quality, insight, and user experience.
• Advise business stakeholders on emerging AI capabilities and other technologies, connecting innovation opportunities to real business outcomes and governance requirements.
• Promote responsible adoption of AI-enabled tools and practices across the portfolio and delivery lifecycle.

• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing solution…