Technology Business Partner: Strategy & Delivery Leader

Barings; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Prescription, Dental, Vision

Employer 401(k) with Company Match

Fertility Benefits

Educational Assistance

Commuter Reimbursement

Paid Vacation and Holidays

Job summary

Barings is seeking a Technology Business Partner (TBP) to serve as the strategic tech advisor for assigned business domains. You will connect business strategy with technology, data, and delivery leadership to shape a coherent portfolio and ensure outcomes deliver business value.

The TBP will oversee demand, initiatives, and sequencing, align roadmaps with priorities, and drive adoption across functions including operations, risk, and vendor management.

Qualifications

• Experience connecting business strategy to technology, data, product, transformation, or operating-model outcomes in regulated financial services.
• Ability to earn credibility with senior business and technology leaders while constructively challenging requests, priorities, and proposed solutions.
• Strong problem-framing, commercial judgment, and systems thinking, with the ability to balance value, risk, cost, architecture, controls, and delivery capacity.
• Experience shaping roadmaps, portfolios, business cases, prioritization decisions, and measurable outcomes across multiple teams and initiatives.
• Clear executive communication and the ability to create accountability and momentum without relying on direct authority.
• Knowledge of investment management and the front-to-back investment lifecycle is preferred; curiosity and the ability to develop deep domain expertise are essential.

Responsibilities

• Develop a comprehensive understanding of business capabilities and processes to align technology initiatives with business strategy and priorities.
• Maintain an integrated view of demand, active initiatives, strategic fit, business value, cost, capacity, risks, and sequencing for leadership decisions.
• Define the business problem before designing the solution; determine whether technology, data, process, controls, or operating-model changes are required.
• Challenge assumptions, evaluate alternatives, and recommend where Barings should invest, reuse, simplify, standardize, or stop.
• Coordinate between sponsors, delivery teams, operations, risk, vendor management, and other partners to define ownership and drive initiatives.
• Establish success measures, prepare the business for change, drive adoption, and ensure capabilities deliver expected outcomes.
• Provide concise, decision-oriented portfolio health updates and highlight actions required from leadership.
• Identify opportunities to simplify the technology estate and strengthen data quality and delivery practices.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Executive communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem framing

Business-technology alignment

Job description

Barings is seeking a Technology Business Partner (TBP) to serve as the strategic tech advisor for assigned business domains. You will connect business strategy with technology, data, and delivery leadership to shape a coherent portfolio and ensure outcomes deliver business value.

The TBP will oversee demand, initiatives, and sequencing, align roadmaps with priorities, and drive adoption across functions including operations, risk, and vendor management.