[Hiring] Senior Manager, Technology Enablement @Baker Tilly

Role Description

The Senior Manager, Technology Enablement is a senior business-facing technology leader responsible for helping Consulting and Managed Services use technology effectively to improve growth, scalability, efficiency, client delivery, and business performance. This role develops a deep understanding of the businesses supported and translates business needs into clear technology recommendations and roadmaps, with a core focus on using existing enterprise capabilities, third-party platforms, and commercial software effectively and ensuring technology investments deliver meaningful value.

Essential Job Functions, Responsibilities & Duties

• Serve as a strategic technology advisor
  • Build trusted relationships with business and practice leaders and understand their strategies, operating models, workflows, economics, and technology needs.
  • Identify opportunities where technology can improve business performance, scalability, quality, client experience, or risk management.
  • Distinguish problems requiring technology investment from those better addressed through process, adoption, operating-model, or organizational changes.
  • Turn complex business and technology considerations into clear options, recommendations, and actions; challenge assumptions and recommend a path forward.
  • Partner across Product, Engineering, Architecture, Data, AI, Security, Operations, Procurement, Finance, Risk, and business leadership to establish ownership and decision rights and drive work to outcomes.
• Lead and develop the Technology Enablement team
  • Lead and develop a team of 3-5 direct reports, setting clear expectations for business understanding, analytical rigor, judgment, communication, and accountability.
  • Build independent, high-performing team members who bring recommendations and ownership rather than simply coordinating activity or reporting information.
  • Create clear accountability, delegate effectively, coach decision-making, and address performance or ownership gaps promptly.
• Lead third-party technology and application portfolio strategy
  • Own visibility into and stewardship of material third-party applications used across the supported service lines.
  • Evaluate whether business needs should be addressed through existing enterprise capabilities, improved adoption or configuration, commercial software, or an internally developed solution.
  • Evaluate software vendors and platforms based on business fit, capabilities, cost, risk, architecture, and strategic alignment.
  • Drive recommendations regarding investment, expansion, consolidation, rationalization, replacement, and retirement, while improving value realization and reducing unnecessary cost and complexity.
• Shape technology roadmaps and investment priorities
  • Develop service-line technology roadmaps aligned to business strategy and enterprise technology direction.
  • Help leaders prioritize investments based on value, strategic alignment, cost, risk, complexity, readiness, and capacity.
  • Connect initiatives across the portfolio to reduce duplication and fragmented technology decisions.
  • Surface risks, dependencies, ownership gaps, and decisions early and drive them toward resolution.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; degree in technology, business, accounting, or a related field preferred. MBA preferred.
• 8 years of progressive experience in business technology, technology strategy, technology consulting, application portfolio management, enterprise/business applications, digital transformation, product management, or a related field required.
• Experience translating business strategies and complex business problems into technology recommendations and actionable roadmaps; evaluating commercial software and vendors; and managing or advising on an application or technology portfolio, including investment and lifecycle decisions. Experience in professional services, financial services, healthcare, or similarly complex industries preferred.
• Strong business and financial judgment with the ability to evaluate value, cost, risk, tradeoffs, and strategic alignment; understanding of complex, technology-dependent business environments.
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder leadership; demonstrated ability to translate business strategies into technology recommendations and actionable roadmaps; meaningful experience evaluating commercial software, technology vendors, and alternative solution approaches.
• Enough technical depth to engage credibly with architecture and engineering teams without needing to be the engineering owner; ability to influence across organizational boundaries, lead and develop high-performing team members, make recommendations, and drive decisions in ambiguous environments.

Requirements

• The national pay rate range is $131,500 to $206,100.

Benefits

• Baker Tilly offers a comprehensive compensation and benefits package to eligible employees.