Technology Specialist - Portfolio

About this opportunity

This role offers the opportunity to influence how organizations manage their IT portfolios in a product-oriented, agile environment. As businesses shift toward product-based delivery, you ll be instrumental in tailoring and evolving portfolio tools that enable product teams to thrive. This is an exciting chance to work with diverse stakeholders, gain deep insights into product management practices, and ensure that tools and processes are aligned with delivering maximum business value. If you are passionate about combining technology, product management, and portfolio optimization, this role offers the chance to make a significant contribution to both operational excellence and strategic decision-making.

What you will do:

Develop the technology and architecture strategy and planning/roadmap for the Product(s) in scope, in collaboration with Product Teams for Medium Complexity Products.
Owns responsibility for technical setup, architecture, system documentation and has key expertise about platform interfaces, integrations and roadmaps.
Collaborates with Enterprise Architects and ensures Architectural Guidelines and Principals are followed as defined in Target Architecture Master Plan.
Support and guide the Product Team in ensuring both a strategic long term and short-term perspective on the Product Lifecycle.
Drive and protect the design / integration / architecture for the product(s).
Understand technical trends affecting the product(s) and judge when new technology is sufficiently mature and cost-efficient to include in products and solutions.
Support Solution Architects who are part of the Product Team.
Contribute to Product Area Strategy along with Product Owner.

The skills you bring:

Minimum 10yrs of experience in relevant domain. A Technology Specialist for Portfolio Management Tools in IT is responsible for implementing, maintaining, and optimizing tools that support portfolio management processes, including project tracking, resource allocation, and performance reporting, with a strong focus on product orientation and product-centric ways of working.
This role requires collaborating with stakeholders to tailor tools to support product-based delivery models, ensuring alignment with business objectives, and promoting a seamless flow of data across platforms.
The specialist must understand product management principles, work closely with product teams, and ensure tools facilitate effective product lifecycle management, prioritization, and value delivery.
Additionally, they provide technical support, implement best practices, and stay current with trends in portfolio management tools and frameworks, such as Agile and Lean, to continuously enhance decision-making, transparency, and overall portfolio performance.