Sr. Principal, Infrastructure Strategy and Portfolio Management

AT&T•Atlanta, GA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Sr. Principal, Technology Strategy serves as the portfolio integration leader for one of EASE’s complex infrastructure portfolios. The role translates EASE strategy into portfolio direction, investment choices, integrated roadmaps, and measurable outcomes. It operates with a high degree of autonomy, maintaining an executive-level perspective while investigating systemic delivery, operational, financial, or organizational barriers that may require senior leadership action. Working in close partnership with AVPs and program leaders, the role provides end-to-end portfolio stewardship and integration across EASE. It connects issues across portfolios and domains, advises senior and executive leaders on significant trade-offs, and balances near-term delivery with long-term outcomes and value. The role anticipates and helps resolve high-impact dependencies and risks, and shapes investment decisions, governance, and portfolio operating practices to improve performance.

Requirements

10 or more years of related experience.
Extensive experience translating infrastructure or technology strategy into complex portfolio priorities, major investments, and measurable outcomes.
Demonstrated leadership of a highly complex portfolio, product domain, platform, or transformation spanning multiple organizations and significant interdependencies.
Ability to maintain executive-level strategic oversight while engaging in detail as needed to diagnose systemic delivery, operational, dependency, and financial issues.
Advanced product and portfolio leadership capabilities, including strategic framing, outcome definition, prioritization, roadmap integration, value assessment, and course correction.
Strong financial and investment acumen across budgets, forecasts, capacity, scenarios, benefits, technology economics, and portfolio trade-offs.
Experience resolving cross-portfolio dependencies and risks and distinguishing issues requiring executive action from those best managed within programs.
Experience shaping governance, policy, operating models, measures, or portfolio-management practices with broad organizational impact.
Exceptional executive advisory, communication, facilitation, negotiation, analytical judgment, and influencing skills.
Deep understanding of infrastructure technologies and operating environments, including cloud, compute, storage, network, platforms, workplace technology, reliability, security, or related domains.
Must be able to work onsite five days per week at the designated work location.
Applicants must not require employer sponsorship now or in the future.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree (MS/MA) in Computer Science or Engineering.
Product management, portfolio management, strategy, finance, Agile, SAFe, or program-management certification.
Experience leading portfolios with major multi-year investments, several accountable delivery organizations, and cross-domain or cross-portfolio dependencies.
Experience advising executives on strategic investment scenarios, technology economics, value realization, and operating-model decisions.
Experience establishing portfolio integration standards, governance, OKRs, outcome measures, and executive decision forums.
Experience using Jira Align, Jira Cloud, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, Power BI, financial-planning platforms, or comparable tools to create trusted portfolio visibility.
Demonstrated experience designing and scaling generative AI, AI agents, or workflow automation solutions that improve decision-making, simplify complex work, or materially increase organizational effectiveness.
A leadership style combining enterprise perspective within EASE, intellectual range, operational credibility, financial acumen, decisiveness, and constructive influence.

Responsibilities

Translate EASE infrastructure strategy into portfolio outcomes, priorities, integrated roadmaps, measures, and investment choices across complex portfolio domains.
Advise executives on strategic choices and course corrections.
Lead integration for a highly complex portfolio and address issues spanning portfolios or EASE domains.
Maintain an executive-level perspective while diagnosing systemic delivery, operational, financial, or organizational barriers when needed.
Establish an integrated view of major roadmaps, milestones, target dates, and outcomes across interdependent work.
Reconcile delivery commitments, operational needs, investment constraints, and long-term value.
Anticipate and lead resolution of dependencies and risks with significant EASE-wide impact.
Mobilize accountable leaders, frame escalation paths, and resolve systemic issues without taking over program-level dependency management.
Guide major investment choices using actuals, forecasts, capacity, expected benefits, technology economics, and risk.
Develop scenarios and recommendations that improve value across portfolio boundaries.
Synthesize complex portfolio information into executive decisions, interventions, and policy or operating-model changes.
Establish effective portfolio governance and ensure actions produce sustained results.
Bring together AVPs, program leaders, Finance, Architecture, Security, Data, Operations, and other stakeholders to resolve trade-offs, align cross-functional priorities, and address high-impact decisions and dependencies.
Help set and evolve portfolio integration methods, measures, and standards for EASE.
Mentor Principal-level leaders and strengthen portfolio-management capability across the organization.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision coverage
401(k) plan
Tuition reimbursement program
Paid parental leave
Paid caregiver leave
Additional sick leave may be available beyond what state and local law require; it 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 programs
Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
Employee wellness programs
Employee discounts of up to 50% on eligible AT&T mobility plans and accessories, AT&T internet and fiber where available, and AT&T phone
Long-term grants and deferred compensation
Paid time off and holidays, including at least 28 days of vacation each year and nine company-designated holidays, based on date of hire