Principal, Technology Strategy & Planning

AT&T•Atlanta, GA

3d•$141,300 - $237,400•Onsite

About The Position

The Principal, Technology Strategy serves as the portfolio integration leader for an assigned EASE infrastructure portfolio. The role translates EASE strategy into portfolio direction and connects outcomes, investments, roadmaps, major milestones, critical dependencies, operational performance, and financials. It maintains the strategic perspective needed to guide priorities and decisions while understanding enough of the underlying work to recognize where portfolio-level coordination, escalation, or intervention is required. Like a strong product leader, this role influences portfolio direction, clarifies outcomes, helps prioritize investment, and uses evidence to adjust the portfolio over time. It balances progress against milestones and target dates with evidence that the work is producing intended outcomes. In partnership with AVPs and program leaders who own domain direction, resources, detailed execution, remediation, and delivery commitments, the role provides end-to-end stewardship of the portfolio. It maintains alignment to EASE strategy and intended outcomes, integrates roadmaps and major milestones, and coordinates the dependencies and trade-offs most critical to overall portfolio performance. This is a full-time onsite office role performed from the designated work location five days per week. No relocation is offered. AT&T will not hire applicants who require employer sponsorship now or in the future.

Requirements

7+ years of related experience; certification is required in some areas.
Experience translating infrastructure or technology strategy into portfolio priorities, investments, and measurable outcomes.
Experience leading a complex portfolio, product, platform, transformation, or cross-functional body of work in a large matrixed organization.
Ability to maintain strategic oversight while using appropriate delivery, operational, dependency, and financial detail to inform decisions.
Strong product-management orientation, including outcome definition, prioritization, roadmap management, value assessment, and evidence-based adjustment.
Working knowledge of budgets, forecasts, actuals, capacity, investment trade-offs, benefits, and financial risk.
Ability to distinguish portfolio-level issues from matters best managed within programs, and to focus on dependencies and risks most consequential to outcomes.
Strong executive communication, facilitation, analytical judgment, negotiation, and ability to influence without direct authority.
Broad understanding of infrastructure technologies and operating environments, including cloud, compute, storage, network, platforms, workplace technology, reliability, security, or related domains.
Applicants must not require employer sponsorship now or in the future.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Business, Finance, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
Product management, portfolio management, strategy, finance, Agile, SAFe, or program-management certification.
Experience overseeing a significant multi-year infrastructure portfolio spanning multiple accountable delivery organizations and cross-domain dependencies.
Experience with strategic portfolio management, product operating models, OKRs, outcome-based planning, value realization, or technology economics.
Experience using Jira Align, Jira Cloud, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, Power BI, financial-planning platforms, or comparable tools.
Experience applying generative AI, AI agents, or workflow automation to improve portfolio management, decision support, data synthesis, reporting, or other complex business processes.
Leadership style combining strategic perspective, operational discipline, financial acumen, sound judgment, and collaborative influence.

Responsibilities

Translate EASE infrastructure strategy into clear portfolio outcomes, priorities, measures, and investment choices, and adjust portfolio direction as conditions change.
Connect work across programs and organizational boundaries, using delivery, operational, and financial detail to identify matters requiring portfolio action without assuming program-level management.
Maintain an integrated view of major roadmaps, milestones, target dates, and expected outcomes, balancing delivery commitments with evidence of intended value.
Identify and help manage dependencies and risks critical to portfolio outcomes, sequencing, or investment decisions; clarify ownership, coordinate action, and escalate issues.
Understand actuals, forecasts, funding needs, capacity pressures, expected benefits, and financial risks, and frame options and trade-offs to align financial commitments with expected outcomes.
Integrate delivery, operational, outcome, and financial measures into a concise portfolio view; surface decisions and interventions and drive ownership and follow-through.
Build alignment across AVPs, program leaders, Finance, Architecture, Security, Data, Operations, and other partners; influence without direct authority while preserving accountable leaders’ ownership.
Improve portfolio planning, measures, data quality, and operating practices; mentor others and foster transparency, accountability, and outcome orientation.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision coverage
401(k) plan
Tuition reimbursement program
Paid time off and holidays, including at least 23 vacation days each year and 9 company-designated holidays, based on date of hire
Paid parental leave
Paid caregiver leave
Additional sick leave beyond what state and local law require may be available but is unprotected
Adoption reimbursement
Short- and long-term disability benefits
Life and accidental death insurance
Supplemental benefits, including critical illness, accident hospital indemnity, and group legal
Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
Employee wellness programs
Employee discounts up to 50% off eligible AT&T mobility plans and accessories, AT&T internet (including fiber where available), and AT&T phone