[Hiring] Senior Director, Portfolio Management @First Technology Federal Credit Union

Role Description

The EPMO Senior Director, Portfolio Manager is a senior leadership role responsible for providing portfolio-level oversight across large-scale enterprise and technology efforts, merger integration, and enterprise transformation initiatives. This role manages a complex portfolio of high-visibility initiatives with significant capital spend, cross-functional dependencies, executive sponsorship, regulatory considerations, and enterprise business impact.

The role will partner closely with leaders across various departments to ensure technology portfolio execution is aligned to enterprise strategy, capital investment priorities, business readiness, operational impact, member experience, regulatory expectations, and merger milestones.

This role is accountable for strengthening portfolio management discipline, including:

• Capital spend prioritization
• Investment governance
• Portfolio health oversight
• Resource/capacity alignment
• Dependency management
• Financial transparency
• Executive reporting
• Escalation of key risks and decisions

The role will help the organization mature from project-level execution to true portfolio management, ensuring work is evaluated, sequenced, funded, and governed based on strategic value, risk, capacity, capital impact, and business outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Technology, Information Systems, Operations, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
• 8+ years of relevant experience in enterprise and technology portfolio management, capital portfolio management, enterprise transformation, merger integration, technology delivery, EPMO/PMO leadership, or large-scale cross-functional program execution.
• 6+ years of people leadership experience, including leading project managers, program managers, portfolio managers, business analysts, or other delivery professionals.
• Demonstrated experience managing large portfolios with significant capital spend, including capital prioritization, portfolio financial oversight, budget tracking, forecasting, variance analysis, investment governance, funding decisions, and executive-level financial reporting.
• Demonstrated experience managing executive-level relationships, including working directly with senior business leaders, technology executives, Finance, Risk, Compliance, Legal, Operations, and enterprise sponsors.
• Demonstrated experience supporting large-scale M&A integration, merger readiness, technology integration, conversion readiness, enterprise transformation, or complex implementation programs.
• Strong experience leading or governing portfolios that include application delivery, infrastructure, data, cybersecurity, integrations, vendor delivery, testing, conversion readiness, business readiness, and operational cutover dependencies.
• Advanced understanding of portfolio management practices, including intake, prioritization, capital spend prioritization, investment governance, portfolio health, financial management, resource/capacity planning, dependency management, risk management, and executive reporting.
• Strong financial acumen, including understanding of capital planning, operating expense impacts, project financials, business cases, cost drivers, budget governance, accruals, benefits realization, and portfolio investment tradeoffs.
• Experience partnering with Finance and Accounting teams to manage capital portfolios, project budgets, forecasts, actuals, variances, accruals, executive financial reporting, and capital investment decisions.
• Experience working within or leading an EPMO, PMO, Transformation Office, Integration Management Office, Technology Portfolio Office, or large-scale program governance function.
• Experience with project portfolio management and reporting tools such as Clarity PPM, Planview, ServiceNow SPM, Smartsheet, Microsoft Project, Jira, Power BI, Excel, Capital Edge, or similar platforms.
• Strong understanding of financial services, banking, credit unions, or highly regulated environments, including the importance of auditability, control evidence, regulatory readiness, and disciplined governance.
• Ability to lead through ambiguity, create structure, drive accountability, and influence senior stakeholders across business, technology, finance, risk, compliance, legal, operations, vendors, and executive leadership.
• Strong executive presence and communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technology portfolio, financial, risk, dependency, and delivery information into clear executive insights, recommendations, and decisions.
• Strong people leadership skills, including coaching, performance management, talent development, resource planning, workload balancing, and building high-performing project management teams.
• Ability to identify portfolio-level risks, funding gaps, capital constraints, capacity constraints, dependency conflicts, decision delays, and execution barriers, and escalate with clear recommendations.
• Ability to support portfolio rationalization by evaluating work based on strategic alignment, financial impact, capital spend, merger criticality, regulatory need, delivery risk, resource capacity, technology dependency, and business value.
• Experience building or maturing portfolio management capabilities, including governance routines, portfolio reporting, financial management discipline, prioritization models, resource planning, delivery standards, and executive dashboards.
• Strong attention to detail, business judgment, ownership of outcomes, and ability to operate effectively in high-visibility, time-sensitive environments.

Requirements

• Location: Full Time Remote, but employee MUST reside in one of the following states: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Nevada, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Washington.
• Target Compensation Range: $184,000K - $220,500 annually + annual bonus.
• Target Compensation Range (CA only): $202,400 - $242,550 annually + annual bonus.

Benefits

• Traditional medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Generous 401K matching.
• Paid Time Off (PTO): You'll accrue up to 15 vacation days in your first year. In addition, you'll receive 40-hours of sick time, and three personal days, which will refresh annually.
• 11 paid federal holidays.
• Special employee pricing on lending products such as mortgage, auto, and personal loans (eligibility for special employee pricing is subject to standard account requirements and underwriting criteria).