Portfolio Delivery Leader

RSM US LLP•Minneapolis, MN

13d•$158,600 - $281,600•Hybrid

About The Position

The Portfolio Delivery Leader is accountable for collaboratively designing, aligning, and delivering a prioritized portfolio roadmap. The role builds trust-based relationships with business stakeholders and ensures technology investments support strategic objectives and deliver measurable value. As a strategic partner to the business digital leader, the position ensures the right teams, capabilities, and processes are in place to deliver high-impact, high-quality solutions. In partnership with Digital Leaders, the role promotes an integrated delivery model that strengthens business engagement, accelerates decisions, and improves portfolio transparency. The position provides leadership and oversight for solution delivery using advanced technologies, including consistent application of AI and current technology design best practices, standards, and methodologies. It is accountable for team performance, delivery excellence, and continuous improvement, fostering shared ownership, quality outcomes, and operational efficiency. The role leads product teams and internal and third-party teams delivering custom, cloud, and hybrid solutions, and advances governance and delivery practices across business and digital teams. The position requires a Bachelor of Science or equivalent experience in software engineering, cloud, or technology leadership; a Master of Science is preferred. It requires experience leading matrixed delivery teams, developing roadmaps, aligning technology to business needs, solution development and governance, enterprise on-premise/off-premise/hybrid solutions, and developing policies, procedures, standards, and guidelines. Compensation is $158,600–$281,600, with eligibility for a discretionary bonus based on firm and individual performance. Most roles at RSM follow a hybrid workstyle, with team members aligned to an RSM office and in-person collaboration when it supports clients, teams, development, or relationship-building.

Requirements

Bachelor of Science, or equivalent experience in a software engineering, cloud, or technology leadership role.
At least 5 years of experience leading matrixed delivery teams, building strategic roadmaps, and providing effective business alignment.
Experience in solution development and governance.
At least 10 years of experience building enterprise-class on-premise, off-premise, and hybrid solutions.
At least 5 years of experience developing and maintaining policies, procedures, standards, and guidelines.
Proven success delivering complex integrations across cloud, SaaS, custom, and third-party platforms, including Workday, ServiceNow, CRM, ERP, data and analytics, and finance systems, using API-first, event-driven, web service, connector, file-based, and secure integration patterns.
Deep knowledge of middleware and iPaaS, API management, reusable services, lifecycle and version management, observability, secure data exchange, privacy, data quality, access controls, testing, and production reliability.
Ability to translate end-to-end business processes and enterprise priorities into a scalable integration strategy and roadmap, with accountability for delivery predictability, platform reliability, adoption, risk, cost, cycle time, reduced manual effort, and measurable business value.
Exceptional ability to communicate complex concepts, risks, tradeoffs, and decisions; build alignment across business and technology leaders; influence without direct authority; and resolve competing priorities.
Demonstrated success building accountable teams, developing technical and delivery leaders, managing capacity, and guiding stakeholders through technology, governance, and operating model change with sound judgment and resilience.

Nice To Haves

Master of Science.
Leadership experience in a large, complex integration environment spanning business-critical platforms such as Workday, ServiceNow, CRM, ERP, data and analytics, and finance systems.
Experience in a regulated or data-sensitive environment, including security, privacy, data governance, compliance, and third-party risk considerations.
Experience advancing reusable integration patterns, developer enablement, intelligent automation, or AI-enabled workflows across internal teams, vendors, and managed service providers.
Strong executive presence, negotiation skills, relationship-building, adaptability, and learning agility across evolving technologies and business domains.
Relevant certifications or advanced training in integration architecture, API management, cloud platforms, middleware, iPaaS, security, data governance, or leading enterprise applications.

Responsibilities

Build trust-based relationships with stakeholders to shape portfolio roadmaps collaboratively, prioritize initiatives by business value, and provide transparent visibility into delivery progress and effectiveness.
Lead client-facing product teams in designing, implementing, supporting, and maintaining custom solutions that integrate with internal and external systems.
Apply business knowledge across assigned lines of business or functional groups to align solutions with strategic goals.
Drive accountability for streamlining delivery workflows through AI, automation, and modern delivery tools.
Lead in-house and third-party teams in combining cloud and hybrid platform offerings into scalable, reliable, high-quality solutions.
Establish processes for reliable, collaborative delivery across business and digital solutions teams.
Standardize Agile and SAFe practices and collaborate with Scrum Masters, Release Train Engineers, and Agile Coaches to uphold SAFe principles and maximize velocity.
Drive continuous improvements to Agile and SAFe practices, delivery efficiency, and team performance.
Oversee advanced product, AI, and cloud platform development and governance processes; manage stakeholder expectations and advance partnerships with business leaders to solve business problems.
Identify leading practices for platform security, data integrity, service quality, scalability, privacy, risk mitigation, disaster recovery, controls, and monitoring.
Lead high-performing teams and ensure best practices, standards, and policies are followed during execution.
Lead process optimization efforts and provide regular performance [the posting ends before specifying the remainder].