VP of Tech Portfolio & Tooling

Irvine Technology Corporation; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Irvine Technology Corporation seeks a VP, Tool Management to lead strategy, governance, and lifecycle management of a large enterprise tooling portfolio. This role partners across engineering, architecture, security, procurement, risk, and business teams to optimize costs and ensure tools meet enterprise standards.

Responsibilities include end-to-end tool lifecycle, rigorous evaluation of new tools, licensing governance, and portfolio alignment with regulatory and architectural standards, while

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in technology operations, engineering tooling, IT asset/software license management, or a related discipline.
• Strong understanding of DevOps and SDLC tooling and enterprise technology-stack standards.
• Experience with software asset management practices, licensing, vendor audits, and renewals.

Responsibilities

• Manage the full lifecycle of enterprise technology tools, including evaluation, onboarding, standardization, licensing, and retirement.
• Lead the evaluation of new technology tools and establish a consistent process for assessing capabilities, costs, business value, technical fit, and potential overlap with existing platforms.
• Analyze tool usage, licensing, spend, utilization, contracts, and ROI to identify consolidation and cost-optimization opportunities and support budgeting and forecasting.
• Partner with Enterprise Architecture, Engineering, Security, Risk, Procurement, and Vendor Management to align the tooling portfolio with technology standards, regulatory requirements, and target-state architecture.
• Govern software licenses, subscriptions, entitlements, vendor relationships, renewals, and portfolio inventory while driving adoption of consistent tooling standards across the organization.

Skills

Stakeholder leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Analytical skills

Financial/ budgeting analysis

Tools

ITIL knowledge

SOX compliance

FinOps practices

Job description

Irvine Technology Corporation seeks a VP, Tool Management to lead strategy, governance, and lifecycle management of a large enterprise tooling portfolio. This role partners across engineering, architecture, security, procurement, risk, and business teams to optimize costs and ensure tools meet enterprise standards.

Responsibilities include end-to-end tool lifecycle, rigorous evaluation of new tools, licensing governance, and portfolio alignment with regulatory and architectural standards, while