Principal BU Client Leader

Key Responsibilities

• Build deep understanding of business unit (BU) strategy, priorities, and operating model, and translate that context across infrastructure teams to drive aligned outcomes.
• Develop and drive a multi-year infrastructure roadmap aligned to BU strategy, integrating modernization, growth initiatives, and core operations.
• Partner with BU leadership to embed infrastructure early in planning cycles, enabling proactive engagement, clear prioritization, and value realization.
• Communicate infrastructure strategy, tradeoffs, and business impact to senior stakeholders to support informed decision-making.
• Lead integrated planning by aligning demand, capacity, cost, and risk, ensuring decisions are transparent, governed, and clearly owned.
• Maintain a BU-level infrastructure risk register, ensuring visibility, mitigation planning, and formal acceptance where required.
• Represent BU priorities in enterprise portfolio and capacity planning processes, surfacing resource constraints and cross-initiative dependencies.
• Partner with delivery teams to ensure plans are realistic, risks are managed, and execution is set up for success.
• Align demand with funding and ensure financial discipline across infrastructure investments and cost management.
• Serve as the primary relationship leader and point of entry for the BU, establishing governance, engagement cadence, and alignment with Enterprise Infrastructure and Technology Platforms (EITP) services.
• Minimum Requirement
• Degree or equivalent and typically requires 13+ years, with 8+ years, of direct work related experience. Less years required if has relevant Master's or Doctorate qualifications.
• Critical Skills
• Infrastructure literacy across domains
• IT Financial Management
• Executive communication
• Strategic planning
• Ownership and accountability
• Governance and decision management
• Cross-functional coordination
• Technology Risk Management
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• Our Base Pay Range for this position
• $167,300 - $278,800
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