Technology Governance & Portfolio Strategy Lead

Motion Recruitment; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Motion Recruitment seeking a Technology Governance & Portfolio Strategy Lead for a Charlotte, NC hybrid role on a long-term contract. This position sits within a major Financial Services firm. The contract duration is 12 months with possible extensions or conversion.

You will build governance, operating models, and an integrated change radar across technology initiatives, delivering executive-level insights and risk-aware decision support to leadership.

Qualifications

• Experience building governance frameworks in large organizations.
• Strong governance, portfolio management, and strategy execution experience.
• Ability to establish repeatable processes in evolving environments.
• Knowledge of technology change management frameworks.
• Experience with risk management using portfolio data.
• Strong executive communication and leadership reporting.

Responsibilities

• Build and operationalize governance and portfolio execution frameworks.
• Develop a consolidated view of technology change across initiatives.
• Apply risk and governance lens to identify conflicts and dependencies.
• Create executive-level presentations and decision-support materials.
• Partner with tech and business teams to drive governance and support strategy.

Skills

Governance frameworks

Operating models

Portfolio management

Risk management

Data analysis

Executive communication

Generative AI

Presentation skills

Stakeholder influence

Microsoft Office

Tools

Copilot

AI tools

Job description

Outstanding long-term contract opportunity! A well-known Financial Services Company is looking for a Technology Governance & Portfolio Strategy Lead in Charlotte, NC (hybrid).

Work with the brightest minds at one of the largest financial institutions in the world. This is a long-term contract opportunity that includes a competitive benefit package! Our client has been around for over 150 years and is continuously innovating in today's digital age. If you want to work for a company that is not only a household name, but also truly cares about satisfying customers' financial needs and helping people succeed financially, apply today.

Contract Duration: 12 Months + extensions/conversion-

What You Will Be Doing

• Help build and operationalize governance, operating models, and execution frameworks for a newly established technology change and investment portfolio function.
• Develop and maintain an integrated change radar across technology initiatives, including near-term and long-term change, resiliency activities, data migrations, and other major technology schedules.
• Bring multiple schedules and sources of information together to create a consolidated view of technology change.
• Apply a risk and governance lens to planned technology activities to identify potential conflicts, dependencies, and areas requiring attention.
• Evaluate how simultaneous technology activities may interact. For example, identify situations where application changes or deployments could conflict with a planned resiliency test or data center migration.
• Establish repeatable processes and operating routines that allow the function to move from initial development into sustainable ongoing operations.
• Leverage knowledge of technology change management frameworks to inform governance and risk decisions without serving as the individual responsible for executing Change Management activities.
• Analyze portfolio and technology data to develop actionable insights and support leadership decision- making.
• Create executive-level presentations, reporting, and decision-support materials that translate complex information into clear leadership insights.
• Partner across technology and business functions to establish governance, influence stakeholders, and drive execution.
• Use generative AI tools, including Copilot, Cowork, and similar capabilities, to support analysis, prompting, workflow development, process design, and business outcomes.
• Support broader technology strategy, portfolio governance, organizational effectiveness, and solution delivery activities as the function evolves.

Required Skills & Experience

• Experience building and operationalizing governance frameworks, operating models, or execution frameworks within large, complex organizations.
• Strong experience with technology governance, portfolio management, strategy execution, or technology project/program environments.
• Demonstrated ability to establish repeatable processes and manage ongoing operations in rapidly evolving or ambiguous environments.
• Working knowledge of technology change management frameworks, including how technology changes, deployments, and other major initiatives are governed.
• Strong understanding of risk management and the ability to use data and portfolio information to identify technology-related risks and dependencies.
• Experience performing complex data analysis and translating information into business or technology insights.
• Strong executive communication and reporting capabilities with experience preparing high-level leadership presentations and decision-support materials.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Hands-on familiarity with generative AI, particularly prompting and using tools such as Copilot to accelerate analysis, workflow development, and process design.
• Ability to work independently, navigate ambiguity, influence stakeholders across functions, and deliver with minimal oversight.
• Strong skills with Microsoft Office tools, particularly Excel, Word, and PowerPoint