01257 - IT Portfolio Manager Azure Cloud Platform

Job Description

Manages one or more supervisors in delivering a Portfolio of IT functions including IT Governance and Compliance, Finance and Procurement, Service Management, Project and Portfolio Management, Architecture, Operations, Applications, Data & BI. Participate in a cohort of Portfolio Managers to ensure that cross cutting functional escalations are resolved and to ensure that handoffs between IT Portfolios and functions are happening in a way that produces the best results for IT stakeholders. As part of a cohort of Portfolio Managers, implements annual strategic focus area deliverables. Provide direction and leadership support for ITD activities and systems that enhance mission-critical business operations across the organization. Work as part of a leadership cohort to plan, coordinate, manage, and participate in the design of operational activities of the group. Directs, through subordinate supervisors, all program, operations, and staff in assigned areas.


How you will contribute:

• Ensure Compliance: Champion adherence to ITD policies and processes. Provide accountability for compliance by ensuring that Supervisors have appropriate functional controls in place to comply with required VITA SEC530, DHRM, VDOT, and ITD policy. Provide oversight of security and compliance by performing periodic reviews in preparation of internal and external audits.
• Execute Programs: Direct, through subordinate supervisors, all program, operations, and staff in assigned IT Portfolio such as Azure Platform Management, Cloud Financial Operations (FinOps), and related migration and operational oversight. Perform managerial and technical work ranging from moderate to considerable difficulty. Responsibilities include oversight of planning, design, implementation, and improving programs, systems, projects and services within assigned IT Portfolio. Ensure scalability, reliability, and Disaster Recovery of the cloud infrastructure. Monitor processes for each program area within the assigned IT Portfolio by assessing performance via tactical Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Work with supervisors to target underperforming or maturity areas for process improvements. Interact with ADAs and IT Portfolio Manager Cohort to ensure that customer needs are met. Focus on implementation of annual strategic focus areas in alignment with the IT Strategy and Business Plan. Apply effective management to develop and ensure that expenditures within assigned portfolio are in alignment with the annual spend plan including cost optimization, cost variance forecast, consumption dashboards, and preparing financial reports for leadership. Own, lead and coordinate application migrations to Azure, including lift-and-shift, re-deploy and refactoring approaches, ensuring minimal downtime and adherence to best practices.
• Improve Processes: Manage work throughput by monitoring and measuring operational metrics alignment to ITD goals. Implement through subordinate supervisors' changes needed to bring operational performance into alignment performance and strategic goals. Implement and oversee observability practices (monitoring, logging, alerting) for proactive issue detection and performance optimization.
• Lead, Develop and Direct Supervisors: Provide effective management of ITD Supervisors across a portfolio of IT functions. Interact with subordinates to provide leadership and guidance in managing their assigned area. Ensure development and performance improvement of assigned ITD staff. Actively contribute to the development and improvement of the ITD organization and all associated processes.

What will make you successful:

• Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing with diverse audiences and to make presentations and conduct meetings.
• Ability to manage teams in a cloud environment.
• Ability to manage, monitor and facilitate compliance with requirements for security, architecture, procurement, budget and billing processes.
• Knowledge of Azure (compute, storage, networking, security, native services) and Cloud migration strategies.
• Knowledge of Commonwealth of Virginia procurement laws and regulations including VITA procurement processes.
• Knowledge of management and human resource principles and practices to include hiring, discipline, performance management and employee development.
• Knowledge of observability tools (Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, or similar) and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (Terraform).
• Knowledge of tactical and strategic management of large enterprise technology portfolios, governance and compliance techniques, quality control, and the development and implementation of policies, standards, processes and procedures.
• Skill in FinOps tools, practices, and methodologies.
• Skill in automation and scripting (PowerShell, Python).
• Skill in cloud platform management and cost optimization.
• Skill in procurement and vendor management.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Ability to manage cloud platforms.
• Ability to manage, monitor, and facilitate compliance with state and VDOT requirements for procurement, budget, and billing processes.
• Knowledge of Azure (compute, storage, networking, security, native services) and Cloud migration strategies.
• Knowledge of observability tools (Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, or similar) and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (Terraform).
• Skill in financial management, people, and resource management.
• Skill in managing IT Portfolios including Strategy and Governance, Infrastructure and Operations, Security and Risk, Applications, PPM & Projects, Data and Business Intelligence, Service Planning and Architecture.
• Skill in managing IT supervisors and teams in the planning, analyzing, designing, developing or implementing information technology programs, projects or systems for a large organization
• Skill in oversight and compliance controls for technologies and functions appropriate to leading an IT Portfolio.
• Skilled in FinOps tools, methodologies, practices, and cloud cost optimization.

Additional Considerations:

• A combination of training, experience or education in computer science, industrial systems engineering, management or related field desired.
• Ability to obtain and maintain PMP certification as applicable to position.
• Experience leading IT professionals.

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About Us

VDOT utilizes a market based pay program, which has been approved by DHRM. Therefore, advertised rates of pay may or may not align with the Commonwealth pay bands.

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