Director of Application Lifecycle Management

Join our team as the Director of Application Lifecycle Management. In this pivotal role, you will lead the enterprise-wide effort to optimize our application portfolio, guiding strategy, governance, and execution of application portfolio rationalization. You will work closely with various business functions, technology, Enterprise Architecture, security, procurement, and finance to translate portfolio data into clear recommendations and an actionable multi-year roadmap. Your success will be measured by reduced application redundancy, licensing and support costs, technical debt, and portfolio risk, as well as the successful execution of portfolio decisions without disruption to critical business capabilities.

• Lead the strategy, governance, and execution of application portfolio rationalization, helping the business reduce cost, redundancy, and risk while protecting critical operations.
• Build and maintain a trusted application inventory that captures ownership, cost, usage, dependencies, technical health, risk, and lifecycle status.
• Oversee execution across the full portfolio lifecycle, including application migrations, data transitions, business readiness, change adoption, user transition planning, and vendor contract exits.

• Demonstrated ability to influence without direct authority, align stakeholders, and move complex decisions forward in a global, matrixed organization
• Extensive experience in IT strategy, application portfolio management, enterprise architecture, technology transformation, or consulting, with a track record of leading complex enterprise initiatives
• Experience developing business cases, total cost of ownership models, ROI assessments, and benefits-tracking approaches
• Proven experience leading enterprise application rationalization, cost optimization, M&A integration, modernization, or a comparable technology transformation program
• Strong understanding of application lifecycle management, enterprise architecture, dependency mapping, technical debt, and technology risk
• Strong program leadership across complex, multi-year, cross-functional initiatives
• Excellent analytical, executive communication, and change leadership skills, with sound judgment in making portfolio recommendations when data is incomplete or trade-offs are complex