Director, Application Lifecycle & Portfolio Strategy

Equinix; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 155,000 - 233,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Equinix in Denver, CO is seeking a Director of Application Lifecycle Management to lead enterprise portfolio rationalization, governance, and cost optimization. You will partner with business functions, security, procurement, and finance to translate portfolio data into actionable roadmaps.

You will guide strategy, drive retirement plans, and oversee migrations, data transitions, and vendor exits across the full portfolio lifecycle, delivering clear recommendations to executive leadership.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in IT strategy, application portfolio management, enterprise architecture, technology transformation, or consulting.

Responsibilities

• Lead the enterprise application portfolio strategy and rationalization roadmap.
• Build and maintain a trusted application inventory that captures ownership, cost, usage, dependencies, technical health, risk, and lifecycle status.
• Apply a consistent decision framework to determine whether applications should be retained, optimized, consolidated, migrated, or retired.
• Develop business cases, total cost of ownership models, and ROI assessments to support portfolio decisions and investment priorities.
• Lead portfolio governance by providing steering committee and executive updates, tracking decisions and milestones, managing program budget and financial performance, and escalating risks, trade-offs, and issues that require leadership attention.
• Oversee execution across the full portfolio lifecycle, including application migrations, data transitions, business readiness, change adoption, user transition planning, and vendor contract exits.
• Operate the application intake governance process by assessing proposed purchases against existing internal capabilities, strategic fit, architecture alignment, total cost, and the risk of unnecessary duplication.
• Define responsibilities and provide guidance to application owners and the Enterprise Architecture community throughout the portfolio lifecycle.
• Drive retirement plans in partnership with application and infrastructure owners.
• Translate complex portfolio data into clear recommendations and trade-offs, building alignment across business and technology stakeholders on a portfolio roadmap for leadership.

Skills

IT strategy

Enterprise architecture

Portfolio management

Technology transformation

Consulting

Job description

Equinix in Denver, CO is seeking a Director of Application Lifecycle Management to lead enterprise portfolio rationalization, governance, and cost optimization. You will partner with business functions, security, procurement, and finance to translate portfolio data into actionable roadmaps.

You will guide strategy, drive retirement plans, and oversee migrations, data transitions, and vendor exits across the full portfolio lifecycle, delivering clear recommendations to executive leadership.