Senior Technology Portfolio Manager

SWCA Environmental Consultants; Phoenix (AZ); Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

SWCA Environmental Consultants is seeking a Senior Technology Portfolio Manager - Execution to lead intake, portfolio planning, and execution coordination for SWCA's strategic technology initiatives.

Reporting to the Director, Enterprise Technology Engagement, you will govern the portfolio, coordinate delivery with business and tech leaders, coach PMs, and support enterprise strategy execution; this is a distributed role with 5-10% travel.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, Project Management, or related field.
• Eight years leading technology portfolios, programs, or projects with multiple stakeholders.
• Experience coaching project managers and building accountable execution practices.
• Experience with demand intake, portfolio management, prioritization, roadmap development, capacity planning, and governance.
• Ability to evaluate forecasts and communicate investment tradeoffs.
• Experience with Agile, hybrid, and predictive delivery.
• Strong facilitation and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience collaborating with architects, product owners, and business leaders in matrixed environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead intake triage and discovery aligned with governance framework.
• Maintain integrated portfolio roadmap aligned with strategy and outcomes.
• Oversee governance, delivery approaches, budgets, and risks.
• Coordinate stakeholder engagement and decision readiness.
• Develop and coach project managers for execution excellence.
• Elevate issues to senior leadership for resolution.

Skills

Leadership

Portfolio management

Stakeholder management

Facilitation

Communication

Risk management

Agile/Hybrid/Predictive delivery

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, or related field

Tools

PM Certification (PMP/PgMP/PfMP) or Agile/Scrum/SAFe

Job description

About the opportunity

SWCA Environmental Consultants is seeking a Senior Technology Portfolio Manager - Executionto join our Enterprise Technology Engagement team. In this role, you will lead intake operations, portfolio planning, and execution coordination for SWCA's most strategic internal enterprise initiatives with significant technology components. You will translate enterprise and technology strategy into actionable portfolio recommendations, helping leaders make informed decisions by providing visibility into capacity constraints, dependencies, investment tradeoffs, and initiative sequencing.

Reporting to the Director, Enterprise Technology Engagement, this role provides leadership and oversight to project managers responsible for the day-to-day execution of SWCA's most complex and impactful enterprise initiatives. You will partner with business and technology leaders to maintain an integrated initiative roadmap, facilitate evidence-based intake and prioritization decisions, and strengthen governance practices that improve delivery outcomes without creating unnecessary administrative burden. This role offers the opportunity to influence enterprise strategy execution, develop project management talent, and drive successful outcomes across SWCA's technology portfolio.

This is a full-time, regular (with benefits), salaried/exempt position that is distributed (=remote) based. Depending on business needs, this position may require [5-10%] travel to support stakeholder engagement, planning activities, governance meetings, and strategic initiative delivery

What you will accomplish

Intake, Business Engagement & Strategic Alignment:

• Lead intake triage, workflow management, and decision-readiness activities in alignment with the Enterprise Technology Engagement intake and discovery framework.
• Partner with Enterprise Technology Partners, product owners, and business stakeholders to gather requirements, develop business cases, define acceptance criteria, and document expected outcomes.
• Maintain clear visibility into request status, prioritization decisions, and portfolio commitments.
• Route routine support requests and minor enhancement efforts to the appropriate accountable teams and owners.

Portfolio Roadmap, Prioritization & Capacity Management:

• Maintain and continuously refine the integrated portfolio roadmap to align with enterprise and technology strategies and targeted business outcomes.
• Develop prioritization and sequencing recommendations that evaluate value, risk, investment assumptions, resource capacity, work-in-progress limits, and dependency impacts.
• Assess cross-initiative dependencies and capacity constraints to support informed portfolio decision-making.
• Present recommendations to start, pause, accelerate, or resequence initiatives based on strategic priorities and portfolio objectives.
• Update portfolio commitments and roadmap plans following approved governance and executive authorization processes

Portfolio Execution & Governance:

• Lead portfolio governance and execution assurance activities across strategic enterprise initiatives.
• Apply Agile, hybrid, or predictive delivery approaches appropriate to initiative complexity, risk profile, and business needs.
• Monitor forecasts, approved budgets, resource allocation, dependencies, and execution risks to support portfolio health and delivery success.
• Escalate material scope, schedule, readiness, or outcome risks and facilitate recovery planning with stakeholders.
• Coordinate initiative acceptance, operational transitions, and benefits reviews with sponsors, technical leaders, and business stakeholders.
• Enable effective portfolio governance that improves visibility, decision-making, and execution outcomes without creating unnecessary administrative burden

People Leadership & Capability Development:

• Recruit, coach, mentor, and develop project managers responsible for executing strategic enterprise initiatives.
• Establish clear performance expectations, role accountability, and professional growth opportunities for project management team members.
• Align project manager assignments and workloads to support approved priorities and sustainable delivery practices.
• Strengthen project management capabilities through coaching, feedback, lessons learned, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, effective communication, and execution excellence

Portfolio Leadership & Decision Support:

• Oversee intake operations, portfolio integration activities, project manager assignments, and day-to-day people leadership responsibilities within delegated authority.
• Recommend portfolio priorities, sequencing strategies, and investment tradeoffs to support achievement of business and technology objectives.
• Elevate execution, dependency, capacity, and organizational readiness concerns to senior leadership for decision-making and resolution.
• Integrate commitments and inputs from Enterprise Technology Partners, product owners, and delivery teams to maintain alignment across the technology portfolio.

Experience and qualifications for success

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, Project Management, or a related field; or an equivalent combination of education, professional development, and directly applicable experience.
• Eight (8) years of experience leading technology portfolios, programs, or projects involving multiple stakeholders, complex dependencies, and cross-functional workstreams.
• Demonstrated experience managing and developing people, including coaching project managers, managing workload and performance, and building accountable execution practices.
• Experience with demand intake, portfolio management, initiative prioritization, roadmap development, capacity planning, and execution governance.
• Ability to evaluate resource and cost forecasts, identify and manage risks and dependencies, and communicate investment tradeoffs and business impacts.
• Experience supporting strategic initiatives through Agile, hybrid, and predictive delivery methodologies, applying the appropriate approach based on business needs and project complexity.
• Strong facilitation, written communication, analytical, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence outcomes across business and technology teams.
• Experience collaborating effectively with technical architects, product owners, and business leaders within a matrixed environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ten (10) years of experience leading enterprise technology portfolios, programs, or strategic transformation initiatives.
• PMP, PgMP, PfMP, Agile, Scrum, SAFe, or similar project, program, portfolio, or Agile delivery certification.
• Experience improving portfolio management, intake processes, governance frameworks, or enterprise delivery practices.
• Experience supporting enterprise transformation, organizational change management, benefits realization, or business process improvement initiatives.
• Experience partnering with enterprise architecture, technology strategy, business relationship management, or technology engagement functions.
• Professional services, consulting, or project-based business experience.