Sr Manager, Technology Enablement (Consulting & Managed Services)

Baker Tilly•Chicago, IL

26d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Manager, Technology Enablement is a senior, business-facing technology leader who helps Consulting and Managed Services use technology to improve growth, scalability, efficiency, client delivery, and business performance. The role develops a deep understanding of the supported businesses and translates business needs into clear technology recommendations and roadmaps. It focuses on using existing enterprise capabilities, third-party platforms, and commercial software effectively, and ensuring technology investments deliver meaningful value. The role advises business and practice leaders, identifies opportunities for technology to improve performance and client outcomes, and distinguishes technology needs from challenges better addressed through process, adoption, operating-model, or organizational changes. It partners with cross-functional technology and business teams to clarify ownership and decision rights and drive work to outcomes. The Senior Manager leads and develops a team of 3–5 direct reports; stewards the third-party application portfolio; evaluates platforms, vendors, and solution approaches; and guides investment, expansion, consolidation, replacement, and retirement recommendations. The role also develops service-line technology roadmaps, helps prioritize investments, reduces duplication, and surfaces risks, dependencies, and decisions early. The position is associated with Baker Tilly’s Consulting and Managed Services. The posting includes a Chicago, Illinois pay range of $144,700 to $226,700 and identifies the role as hybrid (#LI-Hybrid); it says to discuss work-location status with a talent acquisition professional for the requirements of the specific opportunity.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree required; a degree in technology, business, accounting, or a related field is preferred.
At least 8 years of progressive experience in business technology, technology strategy, technology consulting, application portfolio management, enterprise/business applications, digital transformation, product management, or a related field.
Experience translating business strategies and complex business problems into technology recommendations and actionable roadmaps.
Experience evaluating commercial software and vendors and managing or advising on an application or technology portfolio, including investment and lifecycle decisions.
Strong business and financial judgment, including the ability to evaluate value, cost, risk, tradeoffs, and strategic alignment.
Understanding of complex, technology-dependent business environments.
Strong executive communication and stakeholder leadership.
Enough technical depth to engage credibly with architecture and engineering teams without serving as the engineering owner.
Ability to influence across organizational boundaries, lead and develop high-performing team members, make recommendations, and drive decisions in ambiguous environments.

Nice To Haves

Degree in technology, business, accounting, or a related field.
MBA.
Experience in professional services, financial services, healthcare, or similarly complex industries.

Responsibilities

Build trusted relationships with business and practice leaders and understand their strategies, operating models, workflows, economics, and technology needs.
Identify opportunities for technology to improve business performance, scalability, quality, client experience, or risk management.
Distinguish challenges requiring technology investment from those better addressed through process, adoption, operating-model, or organizational changes.
Translate complex business and technology considerations into clear options, recommendations, and actions; challenge assumptions and recommend a path forward.
Partner with Product, Engineering, Architecture, Data, AI, Security, Operations, Procurement, Finance, Risk, and business leadership to establish ownership and decision rights and drive work to outcomes.
Lead and develop a team of 3–5 direct reports, setting expectations for business understanding, analytical rigor, judgment, communication, and accountability.
Develop independent, high-performing team members who bring recommendations and ownership rather than merely coordinating activity or reporting information.
Create accountability, delegate effectively, coach decision-making, and address performance or ownership gaps promptly.
Own visibility into and stewardship of material third-party applications used across supported service lines.
Evaluate whether business needs should be addressed through existing enterprise capabilities, improved adoption or configuration, commercial software, or an internally developed solution.
Evaluate software vendors and platforms based on business fit, capabilities, cost, risk, architecture, and strategic alignment.
Recommend investment, expansion, consolidation, rationalization, replacement, and retirement of applications and platforms while improving value realization and reducing unnecessary cost and complexity.
Develop service-line technology roadmaps aligned to business strategy and enterprise technology direction.
Help leaders prioritize investments based on value, strategic alignment, cost, risk, complexity, readiness, and capacity.
Connect initiatives across the portfolio to reduce duplication and fragmented technology decisions.
Surface risks, dependencies, ownership gaps, and decisions early and drive them toward resolution.