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Job Summary:
TALENT Software Services is seeking an Application Portfolio Manager to lead the strategic initiatives and operational excellence for their enterprise engineering systems. This role involves managing the application lifecycle, ensuring high-performance engineering outcomes, and collaborating with stakeholders to deliver integrated solutions that enhance the company's competitive advantage.
Responsibilities:
• Ensure all technology maintenance and end-user support needs for deployed enterprise engineering systems are resolved in a timely manner; driving continuous improvement and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and Corrective Action opportunities as needed.
• Define and maintain application & technology roadmaps which ensure deployed solutions are secure, resilient, scalable, and aligned with vendor lifecycles & the overall BV portfolio strategy.
• Partner with business, technical, and software/service providers to translate business & technology needs into potential solutions with costs/benefits analysis, achievable project timelines, and BV-standard deployment architectures.
• Manage relationships with key software providers such as Autodesk, Bentley, Hexagon, AVEVA, Esri, and more to achieve BV business outcomes through vendor solutions and services.
• Lead and develop a small team responsible for executing work within the portfolio, ensuring timely delivery of work in alignment with business priorities and strategic goals.
• Provide oversight to IT service providers to ensure engineering systems are continuously available, performant, and supported per business needs, IT policies, and contracted KPIs/SLAs.
• Collaborate with business/discipline stakeholders to package and deploy application updates to BV workstations which keep engineering client applications current and free of defects or vulnerabilities.
• Coordinate with business owners, software providers, and BV software procurement teams to ensure applications are continuously rationalized, licenses are right-sized, and contracts renewed.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Deep expertise in complex engineering application environments and modern delivery architectures.
• Ability to define and deliver initiatives, roadmap, vision, and operational excellence for enterprise engineering systems and desktop application ecosystem.
• Experience in managing relationships with key software providers such as Autodesk, Bentley, Hexagon, AVEVA, Esri, and more.
• Ability to ensure all technology maintenance and end-user support needs for deployed enterprise engineering systems are resolved in a timely manner.
• Experience in driving continuous improvement and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and Corrective Action opportunities.
• Ability to define and maintain application & technology roadmaps ensuring deployed solutions are secure, resilient, scalable, and aligned with vendor lifecycles & the overall BV portfolio strategy.
• Experience in partnering with business, technical, and software/service providers to translate business & technology needs into potential solutions.
• Ability to manage relationships with key software providers to achieve BV business outcomes through vendor solutions and services.
• Experience in leading and developing a small team responsible for executing work within the portfolio.
• Ability to provide oversight to IT service providers to ensure engineering systems are continuously available, performant, and supported.
• Experience in collaborating with business/discipline stakeholders to package and deploy application updates.
• Ability to coordinate with business owners, software providers, and BV software procurement teams.
Preferred:
• U.S. citizen capable of being exposed to data classified as CUI (Controlled Unclassified Information)
• Experience managing the application lifecycle for desktop, cloud, and hosted engineering solutions from key software providers: Autodesk, Bentley, Hexagon, AVEVA, Esri, etc.
• Experience in the Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) industry
• Background in designing, building and maintaining enterprise design and modeling environments
• Experience with mapping a solution's recommended deployment application architecture into high-level architectures which align with enterprise standards.
• Client focus and proven ability to solve business problems through the appropriate application of technology.
• Understanding of cross-disciplinary AEC workflows and project execution in CAD/CAE technologies.
• Capability to multi-task and effectively prioritize within a multi-tasking environment.
• Ability to prioritize tasks independently and deliver to expectations as agreed with stakeholder/requester.
• Excellent verbal, writing and presentation skills targeted to all levels of leadership.
• Experience leading small technical teams in an operational environment.
• Understanding of and experience with the software development lifecycle and methodologies.
• Enterprise data and systems integration experience.
• Software and systems architecture design, cloud services, and hosting experience.
• Experience managing third party SaaS and application hosting platforms.
• Understanding of application packaging and deployment technologies and practices via SCCM.
• Experience with service ServiceNow reporting/ITIL service management framework.
Company:
Talent Software Services is an IT staffing services company of healthcare and government sectors. Founded in 1987, the company is headquartered in Saint Paul, USA, with a team of 51-200 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.