Head of System IT Strategy, Delivery & Performance

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 302,000 - 483,000; Full time

Job summary

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco seeks a senior executive to lead System IT Strategy, Delivery, and Performance, directing cross‑portfolio planning and measuring outcomes. This role drives enterprise alignment, modernizes delivery practices, and ensures transparent performance reporting across the System IT landscape.

The selected leader will guide cross‑portfolio priorities, governance, and tooling standards, building a culture of clarity, accountability, and continuous improvement within

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical (e.g. communications, organizational leadership, business, etc.) or related field.
• Advanced degree (MBA, MPA, MSOrganizational Change) or professional certification in change, strategy, or communications preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop and evolve System IT strategic plans, enterprise outcomes, annual operating plans, and multiyear transformation roadmaps.
• Translate strategy into measurable initiatives and portfolio priorities in collaboration with portfolio leads.
• Engage with CIO business portfolio leads to align business needs with System IT priorities.
• Ensure strategic outcomes are measurable, reported transparently, and linked to enterprise goals and objectives.
• Establish and guide strategy standards to ensure consistent enterprise outcomes, planning artifacts, and strategic alignment across System IT portfolios.
• Lead enterprise-wide vendor sourcing strategy
• Enhance delivery quality, risk identification, compliance, and predictability across programs and initiatives.
• Advance SIT's unified delivery model including standards, planning, execution, change management, and measurement.
• Oversee the development of enterprisewide coaching, practice scaling, tooling consistency, and adoption support.
• Modernize and standardize project management methodologies and tools across the System.
• Own SIT performance reporting, ensuring enterprise dashboards and executive reporting provide accurate, timely insights into delivery health, strategic outcomes, and operational performance.
• Oversee Work Orchestration Tooling (e.g., Jira, Jira Align, FedPPM, Confluence), ensuring systemwide consistency and alignment across agile, project management, financial management, and portfolio tools.
• Partner with technology teams to ensure tools support required workflows and strategic outcomes.
• Oversee the Agile Center of Excellence to develop enterprise wide agile coaching, practice scaling, tooling consistency, and adoption support.
• Ensure project management standards, methodologies, and tools are modernized and consistently applied across the System.
• Guide and mentor leaders across Strategy, Delivery and Performance capabilities
• Collaborate with System IT CFO, System IT Communications, Governance & Planning officer, System IT Employee Experience officer, CIO portfolio leaders, and System IT leadership.

Job description

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco seeks a senior executive to lead System IT Strategy, Delivery, and Performance, directing cross‑portfolio planning and measuring outcomes. This role drives enterprise alignment, modernizes delivery practices, and ensures transparent performance reporting across the System IT landscape.

The selected leader will guide cross‑portfolio priorities, governance, and tooling standards, building a culture of clarity, accountability, and continuous improvement within