Technical Project Manager – Application Portfolio Management

Job at a Glance

• Title: Technical Project Manager – Application Portfolio Management
• Location: Remote (Akron, OH) (Candidates cannot reside in California, Colorado, Illinois, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Montana, Nebraska, New York, Oregon, and Washington at this time). 
• Contract: W2 only, 5-month contract with potential for extension or conversion to full time with the client.
• Pay: $75-80/hour + optional medical, dental, vision, 401(k) match

Overview
This role leads an Application Portfolio Management (APM) initiative from planning through delivery. You will partner with enterprise architecture, application owners, and business stakeholders to assess the current portfolio, identify rationalization opportunities, and produce a phased roadmap. This is a hands-on delivery role focused on facilitating working sessions, consolidating analysis, and driving deliverables through review and approval.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the APM engagement end-to-end, including schedule, scope, risks, dependencies, and deliverable quality.
• Build and maintain an integrated project plan, governance artifacts, and delivery cadence.
• Facilitate workshops and working sessions with enterprise architects, application owners, business stakeholders, and subject matter experts.
• Drive assessment of the current application portfolio across multiple application domains.
• Identify rationalization opportunities (e.g., redundancy, modernization candidates) and document findings.
• Develop and present a phased application roadmap, incorporating feedback and approvals.
• Consolidate and analyze portfolio data to support decisions and recommendations.

Required Skills

• Technical project management experience delivering complex IT initiatives end-to-end.
• Strong facilitation skills (leading workshops, driving alignment, and managing stakeholder input).
• Proven delivery management capability across scope, schedule, risk, and dependencies.
• Experience producing actionable documentation (plans, findings, roadmaps, governance materials).
• Ability to consolidate, validate, and analyze application/portfolio information from multiple teams.
• Comfort operating in a hands-on role beyond status tracking, including producing deliverables.
• Ability to work effectively with enterprise architecture and application owners.

Education

• No Education Requirements

Preferred Skills

• Experience delivering Application Portfolio Management, application rationalization, or similar portfolio assessment initiatives.
• Background in application modernization, consolidation, migration, or retirement programs.
• Experience tailoring capability models to organizational needs and using them to structure portfolio analysis.
• Exposure to initiatives impacted by ERP modernization (planning dependencies and downstream impacts).
• Ability to operate effectively in an ET workday schedule in a remote environment.

Why Should I Apply?
If you enjoy leading structured, high-impact technology assessments and translating findings into a practical roadmap, this role offers a direct path to delivering visible portfolio transformation outcomes.

About CEI:
As a trusted technology partner, CEI delivers solutions that help our customers transform their business and achieve meaningful results. From strategy and custom application development through application management - our technology and digital experience services are tailored to meet each unique need of our customers. Our staffing solutions bring specialized skills to complement our customers' workforce and project requirements.

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