Portfolio Manager for Cloud Managed Services
Job description:
As Senior Portfolio Manager you are responsible for the development of portfolio elements and solutions in the Cloud Managed Services Area, based on various technologies. You will define viable portfolio elements that meet customer needs throughout the lifecycle and work closely with the development and DevOps teams. Your role will include developing program vision, roadmaps and delivering business value through agile methodologies.
Further responsibilities of your activity are:
- You will accompany the implementation and integration of new cloud architectures into the managed service portfolio to transfer the requirement of the market into the product development.
- Representing the portfolio to stakeholders, partners and internal committees.
- You will be responsible for mapping customer requirements to existing and future T-Systems solutions in the Cloud environment.
- You will prepare service descriptions, portfolio costings, sales presentations and portfolio roadmaps and operate T-Systems' portfolio management tools.
- You understand platform architectures and underlying technologies.
- Assessment of requirements from compliance, IT security and regulatory markets.
- Creation of business cases, definition of required funding and budget owner for the product owners and the developers.
- Market research for the cloud portfolio area, sales channels and marketing campaigns for the respective cloud portfolio, and the support of pre-sales activities.
Requirements:
In addition to a degree in computer science or engineering or comparable education, you have at least 5 years of professional experience, including activities in similar positions in the IT/Cloud industry. Furthermore, you have the following experience and knowledge:
- Analytical skills and ability to abstract, as well as deep technical understanding, to present complex relationships in a simple way and to develop from architecture to portfolio elements readiness for sales.
- In-depth knowledge in IT architecture, technology strategy, and software development, with market-relevant Cloud ecosystems and experience with partners (e.g. Redhat, VMware, OpenStack, Microsoft Azure, Google, Amazon Web Services, Kubernetes, etc.) as well as in the open source environment and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).
- In-depth knowledge especially in Cloud (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), networking, telecommunications, virtualization, automation, business customer solutions and systems management.
- Knowledge in the creation of cloud-based pricing models and in the creation of portfolio price calculations.
- Very good knowledge of English language, both written and spoken, German language knowledge is an advantage.
Advantages:
- Knowledge in modern software development using Agile methodology e.g. SCRUM, Spotify etc. as well as software development languages such as GO!, RUBY, etc.
- Experience in project management and complex projects at large companies.
- High social competence as well as distinctive ability to work in a team (also in international and virtual teams).
- Flexibility and willingness to travel (nationally) is expected.
