Director, Technology (Threat Exposure & Assurance Management)

American Electric Power•Columbus, OH

5d•$188,524 - $245,080•Onsite

About The Position

The Director of Technology sets enterprise-aligned strategic direction and serves as a senior technology leader who inspires, guides, and develops a team of leaders responsible for designing, delivering, and operating large-scale technology portfolios, services, and processes that enable AEP’s business. This role is accountable for driving cross-organization initiatives that improve business outcomes through technology modernization, resilience, security, and operational excellence. The scope of responsibility typically includes high-impact portfolios spanning major business systems, infrastructure platforms, or shared operational services, often requiring coordination across multiple business units, operating companies, and IT domains.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree
10 yrs of relevant experience required.

Responsibilities

Leads the strategy and management of a technology or service portfolio with a multi-year roadmap, clear value outcomes, and measurable business impact; ensures a balanced plan across delivery speed, cost, risk, and long-term sustainability.
Provides executive-level leadership and presence: engages directly with senior leaders to shape priorities, frame trade-offs, and secure alignment on investment decisions; communicates complex technology decisions in business-relevant terms.
Leads large-scale, cross-organization initiatives that span teams and domains—driving alignment, removing barriers, resolving priority conflicts, and ensuring coordinated execution across multiple stakeholders.
Drives transformation of technology, operating model, and delivery practices, moving beyond “supporting” transformation to owning outcomes, adoption, and sustained improvements across portfolios and partner organizations.
Ensures technology/service delivery and operations meet commitments: projects and maintenance/KTLO activities are completed on schedule, with high quality, and deliver value to operating companies and business units, while improving reliability, performance, and customer experience.
Strengthens governance, standards, and architectural discipline at portfolio scale: ensures adherence to architectural standards, SDLC, security, coding/configuration, ITIL, and Agile/project practices; proactively identifies gaps and improves standards and adoption mechanisms to accelerate delivery without sacrificing integrity.
Owns portfolio financial stewardship at strategic level: manages budgets and investment allocation across competing priorities; drives cost transparency, total cost of ownership optimization, and value realization tracking for major initiatives.
Leads vendor and partner strategy: collaborates with procurement and vendors to negotiate favorable outcomes; governs partner performance, delivery health, and risk; ensures vendor engagements accelerate outcomes and do not introduce operational fragility.
Builds and develops high-performing teams: establishes a talent strategy; hires, coaches, and develops talent; drives performance management and succession planning; fosters an inclusive culture of accountability, continuous learning, and delivery excellence.
Partners across the enterprise to deliver outcomes: collaborates with operating companies, business units, internal IT partners, and third parties; drives alignment across teams to deliver consistent results and improve enterprise-wide technology effectiveness.
Fosters continuous improvement through Lean leadership behaviors and sponsorship of key initiatives to improve customer satisfaction, efficiency, quality, and reliability—scaling improvements across multiple teams and stakeholder groups.
Ensures compliance and risk management: ensures staff adherence to corporate/technology policies and procedures including architecture and security policies, disaster recovery, NERC CIP, and Sarbanes Oxley controls—while proactively reducing operational and regulatory risk across the portfolio.