Job Title: Application Portfolio Management Specialist
About the Role
We are seeking a detail-oriented and strategic Application Portfolio Management (APM) Specialist to support our enterprise architecture and application rationalization efforts. This role is critical in capturing, analyzing, and maintaining application metadata to assess current technology usage, align future business requirements, and guide decisions on modernization, consolidation, or new application development.
This position plays a key role in shaping our future application landscape by enabling smarter technology investments, reducing redundancy, and aligning IT capabilities with business strategy.
Key Responsibilities
1. Data Stewardship: Populate and maintain accurate application data within LeanIX, including ownership, lifecycle, business capabilities, and technical attributes.
2. Application Rationalization: Evaluate applications for business value (e.g., strategic alignment, user impact, cost efficiency) and technical value (e.g., scalability, integration readiness, security posture, supportability).
3. Technology Mapping & Future Planning: Collaborate with business and IT stakeholders to map future business requirements to existing technologies and support decision-making on whether to enhance current platforms or build new applications.
4. Stakeholder Engagement: Work closely with application owners, enterprise architects, and business analysts to gather insights and validate data and facilitate workshops and reviews to ensure alignment on application strategy and lifecycle decisions.
5. Reporting & Insights: Generate dashboards and reports from LeanIX to support executive decision-making and provide insights into portfolio health, redundancy, risk, and optimization opportunities.
Requirements
* 3+ years of experience in application portfolio management, enterprise architecture, or IT asset management.
* Hands-on experience with LeanIX or similar APM tools.
* Strong understanding of application lifecycle, business capability modeling, and technology stack analysis.
* Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
* Familiarity with enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, BIZBOK).
Additional Information
This role involves 5%-15% travel as per business requirements.