Technology Delivery Practices Oversight Principal
About The Position
This role shapes how technology delivery is carried out across the enterprise. It focuses on defining delivery practices, driving adoption, and establishing consistent measurement of execution performance across the Technology organization. The position partners with Technology leadership to improve delivery discipline, transparency, and predictability by embedding standard methodologies, governance, and performance-tracking frameworks across teams. The role establishes enterprise standards for project delivery, SDLC, governance, and lifecycle management; develops playbooks, templates, and toolkits; and defines structured approaches to planning, milestone management, and risk control. It leads adoption of standardized practices, coaches project managers and delivery teams, and partners with leaders to reinforce accountability and aligned operating rhythms. The position also defines and implements enterprise delivery KPIs, ensures consistent progress tracking against baseline plans, enables portfolio-level visibility through dashboards and reporting, and identifies systemic delivery risks and performance gaps. It provides leadership with execution reporting and actionable insights to support prioritization, planning, and resource allocation, and assesses delivery maturity to drive continuous improvement. The position is onsite at American Electric Power. The stated compensation range is $116,255.00–$151,132.50. The role is classified as sedentary work, involving sitting most of the time, with occasional walking or standing and occasional exertion of up to 10 pounds of force.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in project management, computer science, or a related technical field is required.
- Seven years of relevant work experience is required.
- An equivalent combination of education and related experience may be considered.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in project/program management, including complex technology initiatives.
- Proven experience defining or scaling delivery methodologies, PMO standards, or SDLC practices.
- Strong experience establishing metrics, dashboards, and performance-tracking frameworks.
- Demonstrated ability to influence across a matrixed organization.
- Experience in Technology PMO, Portfolio Management, or transformation environments.
- Expertise in agile, waterfall, and hybrid delivery approaches.
- Strong executive communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
Responsibilities
- Establish and maintain enterprise standards for project delivery, SDLC, governance, and lifecycle management.
- Develop playbooks, templates, and toolkits to enable consistent execution across teams.
- Define structured approaches for planning, milestone management, and risk control.
- Lead efforts to embed standardized practices into day-to-day delivery execution.
- Coach project managers and delivery teams on best practices and disciplined execution.
- Partner with leaders to reinforce accountability and operating rhythm alignment.
- Define and implement enterprise delivery KPIs, including schedule adherence, milestone performance, risk trends, and dependency health.
- Ensure consistent tracking of progress against baseline plans across initiatives.
- Enable portfolio-level visibility through standard dashboards and reporting frameworks.
- Identify systemic delivery risks and performance gaps using aggregated data.
- Deliver consistent, high-quality reporting on execution status, risks, and trends.
- Support leadership with actionable insights for prioritization, planning, and resource allocation.
- Assess delivery maturity across teams and implement improvements to increase predictability and efficiency.
- Use performance data to identify opportunities to enhance execution outcomes at scale.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
