Own the application portfolio strategy and multi-year roadmap, aligning investments to business priorities, enterprise strategy, architecture direction, and delivery capacity.
Partner with business leaders and peer technology leaders to identify, assess, prioritize, and sequence initiatives that drive measurable business value.
Guide decisions on where to invest, modernize, simplify, rationalize, or retire application capabilities across the portfolio.
Maintain an informed view of market trends, emerging technologies, and industry-leading practices to help shape the firm's future technology direction.
Business Partnership and Technology Advisory
Serve as a trusted technology advisor to business leaders and senior stakeholders, helping shape technology priorities and long-term direction for the firm.
Build strong relationships across the business and technology organization to ensure priorities, investments, and execution plans remain aligned.
Translate business strategy into practical roadmaps, investment recommendations, and executable plans.
Provide direction and recommendations on new technologies, enterprise platforms, and transformation initiatives to ensure the highest-value solutions are selected.
Portfolio Governance and Prioritization
Lead a clear, transparent intake and governance model for new initiatives, products, and enhancements.
Align business demand, funding, capacity, and sequencing decisions to maximize value and support strategic outcomes.
Maintain an integrated view of cross-portfolio dependencies across applications, data, platforms, vendors, and delivery teams.
Drive disciplined prioritization and trade-off decisions based on value, risk, complexity, and enterprise impact.
Technology Leadership and Delivery Oversight
Provide leadership and accountability across the application portfolio from concept and business case through design, delivery, implementation, and adoption.
Partner with architecture, engineering, security, data, operations, and delivery leaders to ensure solutions are scalable, secure, supportable, and aligned to enterprise standards.
Bring sufficient technical depth to assess options, challenge assumptions, guide solution direction, and support strong delivery outcomes.
Ensure effective release readiness, transition planning, and operational acceptance for solutions entering production.
Modernization, Innovation, and AI Enablement
Lead portfolio modernization strategies that improve platform health, reduce technical debt, and enable greater agility and business value.
Identify and recommend practical uses of AI and automation to improve solution delivery speed, quality, insight, and user experience.
Advise business stakeholders on emerging AI capabilities and other technologies, connecting innovation opportunities to real business outcomes, governance requirements, and risk considerations.
Promote responsible adoption of AI-enabled tools and practices across the portfolio and delivery lifecycle.
Own and evolve application and product roadmaps to support growth, simplification, modernization, and long-term platform health.
Leadership and Influence
Lead
Benefits
Health insurance
Additional Information
Putting people first, every day
BDO is a firm built on a foundation of positive relationships with our people and our clients. Each day, our professionals provide exceptional service, helping clients with advice and insight they can trust. In turn, we offer an award-winning environment that fosters a people-first culture with a high priority on your personal and professional growth.
Your Opportunity
The Director, Enterprise Application Portfolio & Strategy is a senior technology leadership role responsible for defining, governing, and evolving the firm's application portfolio in support of business strategy and enterprise transformation. We're looking for you to be a strategic partner and an execution leader, translating business priorities into an actionable technology roadmap while also shaping the strategy through insight, influence, and strong market awareness.
This role is responsible for application and product roadmaps, portfolio intake and prioritization, investment planning, modernization strategy, delivery governance, and value realization across the portfolio. The Director will be a trusted technology advisor to senior business stakeholders, sought out to help plan the firm's technology direction, assess new opportunities, and guide decisions on enterprise platforms, transformation initiatives, and emerging capabilities, including AI.
The successful candidate brings strong executive presence, deep enterprise technology knowledge, and proven experience leading teams and complex portfolios in a matrixed environment. This individual combines strategic thinking with execution discipline and can confidently lead conversations spanning business priorities, architecture direction, delivery risk, modernization, and long-term value creation.
Bdo · Toronto - Wellington St