Technology Governance & Portfolio Strategy Lead

Outstanding long-term contract opportunity! A well-known Financial Services Company is looking for a Technology Governance & Portfolio Strategy Lead in Charlotte, NC (hybrid).

Work with the brightest minds at one of the largest financial institutions in the world. This is a long-term contract opportunity that includes a competitive benefit package! Our client has been around for over 150 years and is continuously innovating in today's digital age. If you want to work for a company that is not only a household name, but also truly cares about satisfying customers' financial needs and helping people succeed financially, apply today.

Contract Duration: 12 Months + extensions/conversion-

What You Will Be Doing

• Help build and operationalize governance, operating models, and execution frameworks for a newly established technology change and investment portfolio function.
• Develop and maintain an integrated change radar across technology initiatives, including near-term and long-term change, resiliency activities, data migrations, and other major technology schedules.
• Bring multiple schedules and sources of information together to create a consolidated view of technology change.
• Apply a risk and governance lens to planned technology activities to identify potential conflicts, dependencies, and areas requiring attention.
• Evaluate how simultaneous technology activities may interact. For example, identify situations where application changes or deployments could conflict with a planned resiliency test or data center migration.
• Establish repeatable processes and operating routines that allow the function to move from initial development into sustainable ongoing operations.
• Leverage knowledge of technology change management frameworks to inform governance and risk decisions without serving as the individual responsible for executing Change Management activities.
• Analyze portfolio and technology data to develop actionable insights and support leadership decision-making.
• Create executive-level presentations, reporting, and decision-support materials that translate complex information into clear leadership insights.
• Partner across technology and business functions to establish governance, influence stakeholders, and drive execution.
• Use generative AI tools, including Copilot, Cowork, and similar capabilities, to support analysis, prompting, workflow development, process design, and business outcomes.
• Support broader technology strategy, portfolio governance, organizational effectiveness, and solution delivery activities as the function evolves.

Required Skills & Experience

• Experience building and operationalizing governance frameworks, operating models, or execution frameworks within large, complex organizations.
• Strong experience with technology governance, portfolio management, strategy execution, or technology project/program environments.
• Demonstrated ability to establish repeatable processes and manage ongoing operations in rapidly evolving or ambiguous environments.
• Working knowledge of technology change management frameworks, including how technology changes, deployments, and other major initiatives are governed.
• Strong understanding of risk management and the ability to use data and portfolio information to identify technology-related risks and dependencies.
• Experience performing complex data analysis and translating information into business or technology insights.
• Strong executive communication and reporting capabilities with experience preparing high-level leadership presentations and decision-support materials.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Hands-on familiarity with generative AI, particularly prompting and using tools such as Copilot to accelerate analysis, workflow development, and process design.
• Ability to work independently, navigate ambiguity, influence stakeholders across functions, and deliver with minimal oversight.
• Strong skills with Microsoft Office tools, particularly Excel, Word, and PowerPoint