Senior IT Portfolio Management Lead

Metas Solutions

Atlanta (GA)

On-site

USD 125,000 - 180,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Metas Solutions is seeking a Senior IT Portfolio Management Consultant to establish and operate a mature IT-PPM capability for a federal health client. You will guide governance, intake, prioritization, and executive reporting to improve visibility and decision-making.

The role requires deep expertise in CPIC and EPLC practices, with hands-on development of dashboards, templates, and SOPs. Collaboration with senior leaders and stakeholders across functions is essential.

Qualifications

8+ years of relevant experience in IT portfolio management, IT program/project management, governance, investment management, or related Federal IT consulting.
Strong knowledge of Federal IT governance and investment-management practices, including HHS CPIC and HHS EPLC.
Experience with IT project/investment intake, prioritization, portfolio assessment, performance measurement, risk management, and executive reporting.
Demonstrated ability to develop portfolio dashboards, KPIs, metrics, governance reports, and executive-level decision support.
Strong facilitation, analytical, written communication, and executive presentation skills.

Responsibilities

Assess current IT portfolio management processes, governance structures, tools, data, roles, and reporting practices and recommend improvements.
Develop, implement, and continuously improve an IT-PPM methodology, including supporting SOPs, templates, workflows, standards, and governance processes.
Establish and support IT project/investment intake, evaluation, categorization, prioritization, and approval processes.
Develop and maintain comprehensive IT portfolio inventories and validate project/investment information, including scope, schedule, cost, status, risks, dependencies, and performance.
Develop portfolio-level KPIs, metrics, dashboards, scorecards, and executive reports to support leadership decision-making.
Support IT governance activities, including development of meeting materials, decision packages, recommendations, executive briefings, and action-item tracking.
Apply Federal IT investment and lifecycle management practices, including HHS CPIC methodology and governance process used for selecting CPIC, HHS EPLC, FITARA, risk management and performance management.
Identify portfolio risks, dependencies, duplication, resource constraints, and opportunities for consolidation or process improvement.
Support investment and portfolio analyses, including business cases, alternatives analysis, ROI, fit/gap assessments, market research, and performance assessments.
Collaborate with project managers, business owners, technical teams, and leadership to improve the quality and consistency of portfolio data.
Identify opportunities to streamline or automate IT-PPM processes using Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Power Platform, Power BI, or comparable tools.
Facilitate stakeholder working sessions and communicate complex portfolio information clearly to both technical and executive audiences.