Application Portfolio Lead & Vendor Strategy

City of Indianapolis; Indianapolis (IN); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

City of Indianapolis Marion County seeks an experienced Application Technical Lead to steward the enterprise and departmental application portfolio. You will guide services teams, manage vendor partners, and ensure ISA standards while driving architectural and design decisions for current and future systems.

The role requires strong communication, project management, and collaboration across agencies, with a focus on delivering value through effective IT services and strategic initiatives within

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/CT/Business or related field and eight years of IT experience.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Customer-focused attitude with collaboration and teamwork skills.
• Experience managing application portfolios and life-cycles.
• Public sector or equivalent experience preferred; product owner experience ideal.

Responsibilities

• Develops and maintains in-depth technical knowledge of assigned City/County agencies and department applications and key business processes.
• Assist the Applications Services Manager with leading functional teams in the implementation, support, maintenance, administration, retirement, and ongoing enhancements of enterprise and departmental applications.
• Makes decisions on the actions to be taken by vendor partners to ensure compliance to ISA standards and policies.
• Directing contractual employees to deliver application services to satisfy City/County agency and department requirements.
• Manages a portfolio of applications of assigned City/County agencies and departments.
• Coordinates assigned City/County agency application projects and change management activities.
• Interacts closely with other ISA business units and vendor partners to ensure alignment with strategy across the organization.
• Provides input to ISA managers and leadership on policy and standards.
• Ensures adherence to Enterprise Architecture and Security Standards Compliance.
• Ensures application architecture and design is appropriate for both new systems and existing systems.
• Documents Application Architecture and Design.
• Supports Application Services and Business Services Teams in complex technology planning for assigned groups of City/County agencies.
• Partners with Business Services on customer partner projects, ensuring customer satisfaction with ISA services.
• Provides input to ISA managers and leadership to help ISA more efficiently provide IT services across the enterprise.
• Researches, analyzes and evaluates customer IT initiatives with Business Services Team.
• Manages key applications, projects and initiatives, and facilitates the successful execution of such projects.
• Implements programs and initiatives as directed by management.
• Contributes to the establishment and execution of the overall ISA strategy and annual priorities, and directs the effective achievement of Application Services goals and objectives.

Skills

Customer-facing

Project management

Vendor management

Application portfolio management

Product owner

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic planning

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CT/Business or related field

Job description

City of Indianapolis Marion County seeks an experienced Application Technical Lead to steward the enterprise and departmental application portfolio. You will guide services teams, manage vendor partners, and ensure ISA standards while driving architectural and design decisions for current and future systems.

The role requires strong communication, project management, and collaboration across agencies, with a focus on delivering value through effective IT services and strategic initiatives within