Principal, Technology Strategy – Planning

AT&T

. Serve as a strategic business partner for EASE, connecting infrastructure strategy, financial performance, investment choices, and measurable outcomes .

Posted 10/22/2026full-timeAtlanta • Texas • United StatesLead💰 $141,300 - $237,400 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in technology business management and financial analysis, with a strong ability to translate complex financial and operational data into actionable insights for strategic decision-making. Proficient in developing business cases, managing investment governance, and establishing strategic priorities and objectives.

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Technology Business ManagementFinancial AnalysisInvestment GovernanceBusiness Case DevelopmentStrategic Planning

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Hard Skills

Financial ModelingVariance AnalysisCost AllocationBudget ManagementInvestment ScenariosBusiness EconomicsPortfolio ManagementOKR TrackingData SynthesisGenerative AI Deployment

Soft Skills

Executive CommunicationAnalytical JudgmentProblem-SolvingInfluencing SkillsFacilitation

Tools & Technologies

ApptioNicusServiceNow Strategic Portfolio ManagementJira AlignPower BIFinancial-Planning Platforms

Certifications & Qualifications

Finance CertificationFP&A CertificationTBM CertificationProduct Management CertificationPortfolio Management Certification

Industry Keywords

Technology FinanceInvestment GovernanceCost-to-ServeUnit-CostTotal-Cost-of-OwnershipService CostingTechnology-Value ApproachesInfrastructure ServicesEnterprise Technology ServicesAgile

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudServiceNow

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Serve as a strategic business partner for EASE, connecting infrastructure strategy, financial performance, investment choices, and measurable outcomes
Support strategic planning and portfolio decisions by helping leaders understand the economics of technology services and make informed investment choices
Maintain alignment across strategic priorities, objectives and key results, financial outlook, and current and future investment needs
Direct and partner with dedicated finance resources to develop models, analyses, forecasts, scenarios, and other decision-support materials
Help prioritize investments and govern and develop business cases
Translate financial and operational insights into recommendations for senior leaders
Synthesize business, financial, operational, and strategic information into concise executive insights and decision support
Establish common management practices for technology economics, investment governance, business cases, OKRs, and value realization
Maintain and track EASE strategic priorities, objectives and key results, identifying progress gaps and leadership intervention needs
Govern business cases covering problem definition, strategic alignment, alternatives, costs, benefits, assumptions, risks, measures, and value-realization expectations
Collaborate with Portfolio Integration Leads to connect financial insights and investment needs with portfolio direction, roadmaps, outcomes, priorities, and major decisions
Interpret financial actuals, forecasts, variances, risks, and investment needs, translating implications into options, trade-offs, and recommendations
Build and evolve EASE's technology-economics approach, including unit-economics views for business services, applications, infrastructure capabilities, and other technology services
Partner with EASE leaders to integrate strategic priorities, technology plans, financial considerations, and expected outcomes

Requirements

What you’ll need

7+ years of related experience
Certification is required in some areas
Experience in technology business management, technology finance, strategic planning, portfolio management, investment governance, product economics, or a related discipline
Strong business and financial acumen across budgets, forecasts, actuals, variance analysis, cost allocation, business cases, investment scenarios, benefits, and financial risk
Experience using and directing the development of financial or economic analyses and models that connect technology cost and consumption to services, applications, products, customers, or business outcomes
Ability to translate complex financial, operational, and technology information into clear insights, options, and recommendations for senior leaders
Experience partnering with Finance and technology leaders to improve financial transparency, investment decisions, cost accountability, and value realization
Experience developing, reviewing, or governing business cases and establishing assumptions, decision criteria, measures, and post-investment accountability
Experience defining and tracking strategic priorities, objectives and key results, portfolio measures, or comparable outcome-management frameworks
Ability to maintain a strategic perspective while selectively engaging in financial and operational detail to validate assumptions and support decisions
Strong executive communication, facilitation, analytical judgment, problem-solving, and influencing skills in a complex matrixed organization
Working knowledge of infrastructure and enterprise technology services, including applications, cloud, compute, storage, network, platforms, security, workplace technology, or related domains
Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience (preferred)
Finance, FP&A, TBM, product management, portfolio management, Agile, SAFe, or business-case certification (preferred)
Experience with Technology Business Management, cost-to-serve, unit-cost, total-cost-of-ownership, service costing, or technology-value approaches (preferred)
Experience with Apptio, Nicus, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, Jira Align, Power BI, financial-planning platforms, or comparable tools (preferred)
Experience establishing OKRs, portfolio measures, executive scorecards, investment-review forums, and value-realization practices (preferred)
Experience designing, building, or deploying generative AI agents, intelligent workflows, or automation tools that improve financial analysis, business-case development, investment decision support, data synthesis, or other complex business-management work (preferred)

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical/Dental/Vision coverage
401(k) plan
Tuition reimbursement program
Paid Time Off and Holidays (based on date of hire, at least 23 days of vacation each year and 9 company-designated holidays)
Paid Parental Leave
Paid Caregiver Leave
Additional sick leave beyond what state and local law require may be available but is unprotected
Adoption Reimbursement
Disability Benefits (short term and long term)
Life and Accidental Death Insurance
Supplemental benefit programs: critical illness/accident hospital indemnity/group legal
Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
Extensive employee wellness programs
Employee discounts up to 50% off on eligible AT&T mobility plans and accessories, AT&T internet (and fiber where available) and AT&T phone