Application Portfolio Manager

Job#: 3041655

Job Description:
Application Portfolio Manager

Location: Overland Park, Kansas (Onsite)

Role Overview

We are seeking an Application Portfolio Manager to serve as a strategic leader for an enterprise engineering systems portfolio. This role is responsible for the application lifecycle, strategy, and roadmap for approximately 1,000 applications, with a focus on technologies from Autodesk, Bentley, AVEVA, and Hexagon. The position involves defining and delivering initiatives, driving modernization efforts, and aligning technology capabilities with business strategy to enable high-performance engineering outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the application lifecycle, strategy, and multi-year roadmap for a major engineering systems portfolio.
• Serve as the primary owner for engineering-system-related initiatives, ensuring business requirements are understood and solutions are deployed effectively.
• Drive modernization efforts, particularly moving legacy engineering environments into cloud-based platforms and virtual desktop environments.
• Partner with business stakeholders, software vendors, and service providers to align internal technology strategy with vendor roadmaps and business needs.
• Manage relationships with key software providers such as Autodesk, Bentley, Hexagon, AVEVA, and Esri.
• Influence application packaging and deployment priorities by working with teams responsible for software deployment activities.
• Oversee software licensing operations, including rationalization, right-sizing, and contract renewals.
• Lead and develop a team responsible for executing work within the portfolio.
• Provide oversight to IT service providers to ensure systems are available, performant, and supported.

Required Qualifications

Experience: Proven enterprise application portfolio management experience is a primary requirement. This includes experience managing enterprise engineering systems within a large organization and the ability to combine deep IT knowledge with an understanding of engineering-focused business environments.

Technical Skills: Experience with application lifecycle management, licensing, infrastructure modernization, and portfolio governance. Understanding of the software development lifecycle, enterprise data integration, and systems architecture design.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) or Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) industry.
• Exposure to Autodesk and Bentley ecosystems, including related project delivery experience.
• Experience working with software vendors and account executives.
• Background in designing, building, and maintaining enterprise design and modeling environments.
• Experience leading managed service providers through project scoping and execution.
• Experience with cloud transformation projects and managing third-party SaaS and application hosting platforms.
• Familiarity with application packaging and deployment technologies such as SCCM and ITIL service management frameworks like ServiceNow.
• U.S. citizenship.

Work Environment

New hires are expected to be onsite five days a week for the first 90 days. Following the initial period, the role will require being onsite three times per week.

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