Job Description
About FIS
Are you curious, motivated, and forward-thinking? At FIS you’ll have the opportunity to work on some of the most challenging and relevant issues in financial services and technology. Our talented people empower us, and we believe in being part of a team that is open, collaborative, entrepreneurial, passionate and above all fun.
About the position
The Senior Platform Portfolio & Program Lead creates the integrated operating view across Platform Engineering. Working with the delivery leads for each platform pillar, this role brings together progress, risks, escalations, dependencies, financial information, and executive-level communications into one coherent portfolio narrative.
This is not a project-administration role. The successful candidate can absorb complex information from multiple technology organizations, challenge inconsistencies, identify what matters, and translate detail into concise insights, decisions, and actions for senior leadership.
What you will be doing
The integrated portfolio-management view of Platform Engineering and the operating mechanisms leadership use to understand where the organization stands, what is changing, what is at risk, what is blocked, and where intervention is required.
Key Responsibilitie s
Partner with delivery leads across Platform Engineering pillars and external stakeholders, including but not limited to TPO, Finance, Technology Leads, and Business Leads to gather, validate, and synthesize portfolio information.
Build consistent views of progress, delivery health, milestones, risks, dependencies, escalations, and financial information.
Establish effective portfolio-level operating rhythms, reporting standards, and leadership review mechanisms.
Identify dependencies, conflicts, and risks that may not be visible from within an individual program.
Convert detailed program information into concise executive narratives, decision points, and recommended actions.
Track significant escalations through resolution and maintain clarity on ownership, dates, impact, and next steps.
Improve the quality and consistency of portfolio data while reducing duplicative or low-value reporting.
Analyze trends and surface areas requiring leadership attention before they become material delivery issues.
Partner with Finance, TPO, Delivery, Activation, and Platform Engineering leaders whenever an integrated point of view is required.
Prepare modern leadership communications and materials that clearly distinguish status, risk, decision, dependency, and action.
Required Qualifications
Extensive experience in technical program management, portfolio management, engineering operations, technology transformation, or strategy and execution.
Demonstrated success managing complex portfolios with multiple interdependent programs and senior stakeholders.
Strong financial, analytical, and business acumen with the ability to connect investments to delivery outcomes.
Excellent executive communication, presentation, and narrative-development skills.
Fluency in portfolio metrics, delivery health, dependency management, risk management, and escalation practices.
Ability to distinguish meaningful risk and decision points from routine reporting noise.
Credibility working with senior engineering, product, finance, and technology leaders.
Ability to drive clarity and accountability without direct authority over delivery teams.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in platform engineering, developer experience, infrastructure, cloud, or large-scale technology modernization.
Advanced PowerPoint and data-reporting skills, including the ability to create executive-ready visual narratives.
Experience supporting an executive portfolio review, transformation office, engineering operations function, or technology chief-of-staff model.
What Success Looks Like
Leadership can quickly understand what is happening across Platform Engineering, what has changed, where risk is concentrated, what decisions are required,…