Senior Technology Portfolio Manager

Senior Technology Portfolio Manager
- ExecutionSWCA Environmental Consultants is seeking a Senior Technology Portfolio Manager
- Execution to join our Enterprise Technology Engagement team. In this role, you will lead intake operations, portfolio planning, and execution coordination for SWCA's most strategic internal enterprise initiatives with significant technology components. You will translate enterprise and technology strategy into actionable portfolio recommendations, helping leaders make informed decisions by providing visibility into capacity constraints, dependencies, investment tradeoffs, and initiative sequencing. Reporting to the Director, Enterprise Technology Engagement, this role provides leadership and oversight to project managers responsible for the day-to-day execution of SWCA's most complex and impactful enterprise initiatives. You will partner with business and technology leaders to maintain an integrated initiative roadmap, facilitate evidence-based intake and prioritization decisions, and strengthen governance practices that improve delivery outcomes without creating unnecessary administrative burden. This role offers the opportunity to influence enterprise strategy execution, develop project management talent, and drive successful outcomes across SWCA's technology portfolio. This is a full-time, regular (with benefits), salaried/exempt position that is distributed (=remote) based. Depending on business needs, this position may require [5-10%] travel to support stakeholder engagement, planning activities, governance meetings, and strategic initiative delivery.
Application Deadline:Please submit your application byWhat you will accomplishIntake, Business Engagement & Strategic Alignment: Lead intake triage, workflow management, and decision-readiness activities in alignment with the Enterprise Technology Engagement intake and discovery framework. Partner with Enterprise Technology Partners, product owners, and business stakeholders to gather requirements, develop business cases, define acceptance criteria, and document expected outcomes. Maintain clear visibility into request status, prioritization decisions, and portfolio commitments. Route routine support requests and minor enhancement efforts to the appropriate accountable teams and owners.
Portfolio Roadmap, Prioritization & Capacity Management: Maintain and continuously refine the integrated portfolio roadmap to align with enterprise and technology strategies and targeted business outcomes. Develop prioritization and sequencing recommendations that evaluate value, risk, investment assumptions, resource capacity, work-in-progress limits, and dependency impacts. Assess cross-initiative dependencies and capacity constraints to support informed portfolio decision-making. Present recommendations to start, pause, accelerate, or resequence initiatives based on strategic priorities and portfolio objectives. Update portfolio commitments and roadmap plans following approved governance and executive authorization processes.
Portfolio Execution & Governance: Lead portfolio governance and execution assurance activities across strategic enterprise initiatives. Apply Agile, hybrid, or predictive delivery approaches appropriate to initiative complexity, risk profile, and business needs. Monitor forecasts, approved budgets, resource allocation, dependencies, and execution risks to support portfolio health and delivery success. Escalate material scope, schedule, readiness, or outcome risks and facilitate recovery planning with stakeholders. Coordinate initiative acceptance, operational transitions, and benefits reviews with sponsors, technical leaders, and business stakeholders. Enable effective portfolio governance that improves visibility, decision-making, and execution outcomes without creating unnecessary administrative burden.
People Leadership & Capability Development: Recruit, coach, mentor, and develop project managers responsible for executing strategic enterprise initiatives. Establish clear performance expectations, role accountability, and professional growth opportunities for project management team members. Align project manager assignments and workloads to support approved priorities and sustainable delivery practices. Strengthen project management capabilities through coaching, feedback, lessons learned, and continuous improvement initiatives. Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, effective communication, and execution excellence.
Portfolio Leadership & Decision Support: Oversee intake operations, portfolio integration activities, project manager assignments, and day-to-day people leadership responsibilities within delegated authority. Recommend portfolio priorities, sequencing strategies, and investment tradeoffs to support achievement of business and technology objectives. Elevate execution, dependency, capacity, and organizational readiness concerns to senior leadership for decision-making and resolution. Integrate com