IT Portfolio Manager

job summary:
We are seeking a high-performing, self-directed IT Portfolio Manager to serve as both a strategic advisor and execution driver across our business and technology initiatives. In this role, you will go beyond simple project coordination-you will help translate enterprise strategy into measurable outcomes, executable roadmaps, and prioritized investments. Operating in a consultative capacity, you will engage senior leaders (including executive-level stakeholders) to evaluate competing priorities, identify dependencies, and make informed trade-off decisions. The ideal candidate thrives in ambiguity, creates structure where none exists, and actively drives value across complex, regulated environments.

location: San Antonio, Texas
job type: Contract
salary: $50 - 60 per hour
work hours: 8am to 5pm
education: Bachelors

responsibilities:

Strategic Portfolio Management & Advisory: Partner with business and technology leaders to translate strategic goals into actionable portfolio outcomes, roadmaps, and investment decisions.

Demand & Investment Shaping: Evaluate incoming initiatives-clarifying intended value propositions, business outcomes, risks, and dependencies before work enters the portfolio.

Executive Decision Forums: Facilitate strategic portfolio reviews, synthesizing complex data into clear recommendations, trade-offs, and executive-level narratives.

Outcome & Value Realization: Establish metrics for success, define benefit hypotheses, and track whether investments deliver expected value over time.

Capacity & Planning Alignment: Support annual, quarterly, and continuous planning cycles, balancing capacity constraints, resource collisions, and funding considerations.

Capability & Governance Maturation: Develop and refine portfolio frameworks, governance models, data standards, and playbooks to continuously mature organizational practices.

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner across technology, architecture, cybersecurity, risk, and finance to ensure portfolio decisions reflect broad enterprise needs.

qualifications:
Strategic Portfolio & Value Management: Demonstrated experience connecting strategy to investments, assessing portfolio health, and helping leaders prioritize initiatives. Technology & Business Acumen: Strong ability to connect technology strategy (modernization, technical debt, operational resilience, cybersecurity) to broader business outcomes. Executive Presence & Storytelling: Skilled in synthesizing complex details into clear executive presentations, using data and visual storytelling to influence decisions. Structured Problem Solving: Comfortable navigating ambiguity, conducting strategic discovery, and building operational structure independently. Preferred Experience & CertificationsIndustry: Banking or financial services experience is strongly preferred, especially partnering with technology, cybersecurity, risk, or operations. Background: Experience in IT strategy, transformation, technology consulting, or strategic portfolio advisory.

Certifications (Nice-to-Have): PMP, PMI-ACP, PfMP, CB-PMO, SAFe/Agile, or Prosci Change Management.

skills:
information security,cybersecurity,technical debt,Value Management,Business Acumen,curious,resilience,Structured Problem Solving,accountable,self-directed,collaborative,architecture,Banking,operational resilience,business strategy,consultative mindset,Advisory,executable,investment decisions,financial,investments,portfolio investments,project portfolio,project and portfolio management,risk,Storytelling,strategic partner,task management,technology strategy,visual storytelling

Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status.

At Randstad Digital, we welcome people of all abilities and want to ensure that our hiring and interview process meets the needs of all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation to make your application or interview experience a great one, please contact [email protected].


Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).

This posting is open for thirty (30) days.