Principal Technical Program Manager - Operating Model Enablement, Portfolio & Standards
Employer not yet confirmed · Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
Elevate your career by steering multi-faceted technology programs, integrating innovative solutions for a dynamic impact across global operations.
As a Principal Technical Program Manager in Operating Model Enablement's Portfolio Management & Governance team, you will lead complex, multi-functional technology programs that improve portfolio governance, strategic planning, standards adoption, and executive decision-making across the firm. Your advanced analytical reasoning and adaptability will enable you to translate business, technical, and operational objectives into measurable outcomes, structured work, and decision-ready insights while navigating ambiguity and driving change. With demonstrated technical fluency, you will manage dependencies, risks, resources, and cross-functional delivery while shaping scalable frameworks, processes, and tools. Your communication and influencing skills will foster productive relationships with senior stakeholders and partner teams, ensuring alignment, quality, and value realization.
Job responsibilities
- Develop and implement strategic technical program plans that connect portfolio priorities, business value, measurable outcomes, milestones, dependencies, and execution across OME and partner organizations.
- Lead complex, cross-functional portfolio management and governance programs, managing scope, resources, timelines, risks, issues, and roadblocks to deliver intended outcomes.
- Establish and continuously improve portfolio governance frameworks, operating standards, quality checkpoints, and decision-making processes that promote consistency, transparency, and accountability.
- Produce executive-ready portfolio insights, health assessments, performance reporting, and recommendations that surface trends, trade-offs, risks, dependencies, and decisions requiring leadership attention.
- Build strong relationships with senior stakeholders, clients, product, technology, finance, and delivery teams to align priorities, clarify ownership, and drive timely decisions and beneficial outcomes.
- Guide the adoption and improvement of portfolio tools, data practices, automation, and reusable assets while championing lessons learned, best practices, and scalable capability development.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- 7+ years of experience or equivalent expertise in technical program management, portfolio management, governance, or leading complex technology programs in large organizations.
- Demonstrated ability to translate strategy and business value into measurable outcomes, integrated plans, milestones, governance routines, and actionable executive reporting.
- Advanced analytical reasoning and problem-solving skills, with experience synthesizing complex business, technical, operational, and financial information into clear recommendations.
- Proven ability to lead through change and ambiguity, manage interdependent work, identify and mitigate risk, and maintain delivery discipline in high-pressure, shifting environments.
- Advanced stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills, with demonstrated success aligning senior leaders and cross-functional teams around priorities, decisions, and accountability.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience designing or improving enterprise portfolio management, investment planning, governance, portfolio health, or strategic planning frameworks.
- Working knowledge of product and technology operating models, agile delivery, portfolio tooling, data visualization, and workflow automation.
- Experience developing standards, playbooks, templates, or quality-assurance mechanisms that scale consistent practices across teams.
- Demonstrated ability to use data and emerging technologies, including AI-enabled solutions, to improve portfolio insights, reporting efficiency, and decision support.