Principal, Tech Business Management

AT&T Mobility Services; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

AT&T Mobility Services seeks a Principal, Technology Strategy & Planning to align infrastructure strategy with financial performance and investment decisions. You will translate complex financial and operational data into actionable recommendations driving value realization across technology services.

Lead cross-functional collaboration, develop robust business cases, and govern investment processes while maintaining a strategic view of priorities and outcomes within a matrixed organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (BS/BA) in CS or Business; 7+ years of related experience.
• Experience in technology business management, technology finance, strategic planning, portfolio management, investment governance, product economics, or related discipline.
• Strong business and financial acumen across budgets, forecasts, actuals, variance analysis, cost allocation, business cases, investment scenarios, benefits, and financial risk.

Responsibilities

• Synthesize business, financial, operational, and strategic data into concise executive insights for decision-making across a matrixed organization.
• Establish common management practices for technology economics, investment governance, business cases, OKRs, and value realization.
• Maintain visibility into progress of strategic priorities, objectives, and key results; identify gaps needing leadership action.
• Govern and develop business cases with problem definition, alignment, costs, benefits, risks and value realization expectations.
• Help leaders prioritize investments by framing alignment, value, financial implications, constraints, risks, and trade-offs.
• Collaborate with Portfolio Integration Leads to align financial insights with portfolio roadmaps and major decisions.
• Interpret financial actuals, forecasts, variances, risks; translate into clear options and recommendations for senior leaders.
• Direct finance resources to develop analyses, forecasts, and investment scenarios to support decisions.
• Help evolve technology economics; develop unit-economics views for services, apps, infra, and related domains.
• Partner with EASE leaders to connect strategy, technology plans, and financial considerations into an integrated view."],
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• COMPANY NAME: AT&T Mobility ServicesKEY POINTS: Strategic finance for tech, investment governance, senior-leader advisory
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• <p>AT&T Mobility Services is seeking a Principal, Technology Strategy & Planning to partner with senior leaders in aligning infrastructure strategy with financial performance and investment decisions. You will translate complex financial and operational data into actionable recommendations that drive value realization across technology services.</p><p>Lead cross-functional collaboration, develop robust business cases, and govern investment processes while maintaining a strategic view of priorities and outcomes within a matrixed organization.</p>
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Skills

Executive communication

Influencing skills

Financial acumen

Strategic thinking

Analytical judgment

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Business

Master's degree in Business, Finance, Economics or Computer Science

Job description

Principal, Technology Strategy & Planning

What You'll Do

The Principal, Tech Business Management will serve as a strategic business partner for EASE, helping connect infrastructure strategy, financial performance, investment choices, and measurable outcomes. The role will bring strong business and financial acumen to strategic planning and portfolio decisions, helping leaders understand the economics of technology services and make informed choices about where and how EASE invests.

Working closely with EASE leaders, Finance, portfolio integration leaders, service and application owners, Architecture, Data, and other partners, the Principal will help maintain alignment across strategic priorities, objectives and key results, financial outlook, and current and future investment needs. The role will direct and partner with dedicated finance resources to develop the models, analyses, and scenarios needed for decisions; help prioritize investments; govern and develop business cases; and translate financial and operational insights into recommendations for senior leaders.

Key Responsibilities

• Synthesize business, financial, operational, and strategic information into concise executive insights and decision support, leading through influence across a complex, matrixed organization.
• Help establish common management practices for technology economics, investment governance, business cases, OKRs, and value realization, including decision criteria, templates, and operating cadences.
• Maintain and track EASE strategic priorities, objectives and key results, providing visibility into progress, performance gaps, and areas requiring leadership attention or intervention.
• Govern and help develop business cases, including problem definition, strategic alignment, alternatives, costs, benefits, assumptions, risks, measures, and value-realization expectations.
• Help leaders prioritize investments across competing needs by framing strategic alignment, expected value, financial implications, constraints, risks, and trade-offs.
• Collaborate with Portfolio Integration Leads to connect financial insights and investment needs with portfolio direction, roadmaps, outcomes, priorities, and major decisions.
• Interpret financial actuals, forecasts, variances, risks, and investment needs; translate the implications into clear options, trade-offs, and recommendations for senior leaders and Portfolio Integration Leads.
• Direct and partner with dedicated finance resources to develop financial analyses, forecasts, investment scenarios, cost views, and other models needed to support leadership and portfolio decisions.
• Help build and evolve EASE's approach to technology economics, including unit-economics views for business services, applications, infrastructure capabilities, and other technology services, so leaders can better understand cost drivers, consumption, and value.
• Partner with EASE leaders to connect strategic priorities, technology plans, financial considerations, and expected outcomes into an integrated business view.

What You'll Need

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (BS/BA) desired in Computer Science or Business. 7+ years of related experience. Certification is required in some areas.
• Experience in technology business management, technology finance, strategic planning, portfolio management, investment governance, product economics, or a related discipline.
• Strong business and financial acumen across budgets, forecasts, actuals, variance analysis, cost allocation, business cases, investment scenarios, benefits, and financial risk.
• Experience using and directing the development of financial or economic analyses and models that connect technology cost and consumption to services, applications, products, customers, or business outcomes.
• Ability to translate complex financial, operational, and technology information into clear insights, options, and recommendations for senior leaders.
• Experience partnering with Finance and technology leaders to improve financial transparency, investment decisions, cost accountability, and value realization.
• Experience developing, reviewing, or governing business cases and establishing assumptions, decision criteria, measures, and post-investment accountability.
• Experience defining and tracking strategic priorities, objectives and key results, portfolio measures, or comparable outcome-management frameworks.
• Ability to maintain a strategic perspective while selectively engaging in financial and operational detail to validate assumptions and support decisions.
• Strong executive communication, facilitation, analytical judgment, problem-solving, and influencing skills in a complex matrixed organization.
• Working knowledge of infrastructure and enterprise technology services, including applications, cloud, compute, storage, network, platforms, security, workplace technology, or related domains.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Computer Science