Director / Vice President

The posting, as Orion Innovation wrote it

Orion Innovation is a premier, award-winning, global business and technology services firm. Orion delivers game-changing business transformation and product development rooted in digital strategy, experience design, and engineering, with a unique combination of agility, scale, and maturity. We work with a wide range of clients across many industries including financial services, professional services, telecommunications and media, consumer products, automotive, industrial automation, professional sports and entertainment, life sciences, ecommerce, and education.

Project Overview

The role will focus on overseeing program and portfolio management activities within the delivery department, ensuring efficient IT service delivery and resource management. This is a strategic role requiring deep expertise in financial analysis, resource optimization, and multi-project coordination to align with organizational goals.

Key Responsibilities

Program & Portfolio Delivery Leadership

• Own end-to-end delivery of a large, multi-workstream technical program, acting as the single point of accountability for scope, schedule, quality, and outcomes.
• Run the client engagement as a portfolio, managing multiple concurrent projects and workstreams with consistent governance, reporting, and prioritization.
• Apply disciplined scope and change management across all workstreams, ensuring changes are assessed, approved, and reflected in schedule, budget, and staffing before execution.
• Establish and run program governance, including steering committees, status reporting, RAID logs, and escalation paths, so delivery stays on time and on budget.

Technical Delivery Oversight

• This is a senior delivery management role, not a hands-on technical development or engineering role: success depends on the ability to lead, direct, and manage highly technical scope through the technical team.
• Provide technical delivery direction across server migrations, cloud transformation, AI-enabled legacy modernization, and DevOps initiatives, translating client business goals into a deliverable technical roadmap for the technical team to execute.
• Partner with architects and engineering leads to validate solution approach, sequencing, and risk, staying conversant enough in the technology to challenge and de-risk delivery plans.
• Ensure agile, DevOps, CI/CD, and cloud operating practices are applied consistently across teams and aligned to client standards.

Financial Management & Profitability

• Own the program budget: build and manage the financial plan, track actuals against forecast, and report margin and profitability at the account and project level.
• Manage commercial levers, including rate cards, utilization, staffing mix, and scope changes, to protect and grow account profitability while delivering client value.
• Present financial and delivery performance to internal leadership and client stakeholders with clear, data-backed narratives.

Resource & Portfo
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erver migration approaches, DevOps toolchains (CI/CD, infrastructure as code), and modern application and legacy modernization approaches, including AI-enabled modernization.

• Comfortable engaging directly with architects and engineers on solution design, technical risk, and delivery approach, not purely a process-focused program manager, while directing and managing that technical work rather than performing it hands-on.

Preferred Certifications

• PMP, PgMP, or PMI-ACP
• SAFe Agilist or SAFe Program Consultant
• ITIL Foundation
• Cloud certification (Azure, AWS, or GCP) at associate level or higher

Education

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information technology, or a related field; equivalent experience considered. An MBA or advanced degree is a plus.

Location & Travel

• This is a Columbus, Ohio based role. The Client Delivery Partner is expected to work onsite at the client location five days a week.
• Based in or willing to relocate to Columbus, Ohio. Occasional travel to other client and delivery locations may be required.

Orion is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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