Strategic Leader, Application Lifecycle & Portfolio

Jobtailor; Warszawa; On-site; PLN 260,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor seeks an experienced leader to define and execute the Application Lifecycle Management strategy for Group & Enterprise Applications. You will build governance, operating models and capabilities to manage the GEA landscape.

You will lead a multidisciplinary team across governance, portfolio management, risk, compliance, and service ownership, while partnering with Security and Enterprise Architecture to align lifecycle decisions with target architecture.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in enterprise IT leadership, application governance, IT strategy, or related disciplines.
• Proven experience establishing or transforming enterprise-scale capabilities, operating models or governance frameworks.
• Experience leading large-scale application transformation, rationalization, modernization or consolidation initiatives.
• Strong knowledge of application portfolio management, lifecycle management, service ownership and IT governance.
• Experience in global, complex, matrix-based organizations with risk and audit awareness.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the Application Lifecycle Management strategy for Group & Enterprise Applications.
• Establish operating model, governance framework, processes and capabilities for the GEA landscape.
• Build ALM into an enterprise capability supporting strategic decision-making and portfolio optimization.
• Lead a multidisciplinary team spanning governance, portfolio management, risk coordination, compliance, and service ownership.
• Establish governance forums, accountability models and management reporting.
• Lead application consolidation and decommissioning across the GEA landscape.
• Drive portfolio simplification to reduce complexity, risk and cost.
• Partner with Enterprise Architecture on lifecycle decisions and technology strategy.
• Influence investments and prioritization across the portfolio; establish the GEA cockpit for oversight.
• Improve transparency of ownership, lifecycle status, compliance obligations, and technical debt.
• Improve data quality, governance and reporting across ServiceNow, CMDB, Jira and related tooling.
• Establish governance for risk, vulnerability and compliance management; ensure remediation plans.
• Partner with Security, Compliance and Risk to strengthen resilience and regulatory readiness.
• Provide executive reporting to GEA leadership; build relationships with senior stakeholders.
• Influence without formal authority across a large, distributed organization; represent ALM in governance boards.

Skills

ALM

Governance

Portfolio Mgmt

Risk Mgmt

Executive Reporting

Data Quality

Operational Resilience

Strategic Communication

Stakeholder Influence

Team Leadership

Tools

ServiceNow

CMDB

Jira

IT Governance Tooling

Job description

Jobtailor seeks an experienced leader to define and execute the Application Lifecycle Management strategy for Group & Enterprise Applications. You will build governance, operating models and capabilities to manage the GEA landscape.

You will lead a multidisciplinary team across governance, portfolio management, risk, compliance, and service ownership, while partnering with Security and Enterprise Architecture to align lifecycle decisions with target architecture.