Associate Director, Product Portfolio Transformation Lead

Responsibilities

• Lead the shift from an application‑centric model to a Product & Service Operating Model.
• Establish portfolio governance, service ownership, value stream alignment, and scaled agile practices.
• Standardize roadmaps, service definitions, and how delivery is communicated to business partners.
• Coach Service Owners in Scaled Agile and modern delivery best practices.
• Coach Service Owner in maturing service/product portfolio management.
• Work within DT PMO to define and implement LACE (Lean‑Agile Center of Excellence).
• Develop and manage funding models aligned to product/service‑based delivery.
• Manage operational governance of the Service Catalog (additions, changes, retirements).
• Socialize transformation goals across business stakeholders and support organizational adoption.
• Act as a transformation leader with experience driving Agile and portfolio maturity improvements.
• Ability to work with Service Owners through the transition, identify skills needed with the team and pull together solutions to fill gaps.
• Potentially up to 25% travel.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Business, Engineering, or related field and 12+ years of applicable work experience; OR an Advanced degree in Information Technology, Business, Engineering, or related field and 10+ years of applicable work experience.
• U.S. Citizenship is required (required due to Government contractual requirements).
• Experience in Planview/Jira/ServiceNow.
• Prior Experience in Scaled Agile transformation.
• Operation depth in SAFe – Scaled Agile Certified, run PI planning, understand LACE (RTE, PO).
• ITIL certified.
• Scaled Agile certification.
• OCM leadership experience.
• Service/Product Portfolio Management experience.
• Large Operating Model Transformation experience.
• Experience in setting up foundational Portfolio structure.
• Understanding of an Operating Model with multiple components and goals of Operating model verses and Operating System.
• Ability to influence leaders and people who do not report directly to them.
• Good communications skills.