Principal, Technology Strategy & Planning

This is a full-time onsite role based in the location(s) posted and is performed from the designated work location five days per week. No relocation is offered.

AT&T will not hire any applicants for this position who require employer sponsorship now or in the future.

Join AT&T and reimagine the communications and technologies that connect the world. The Technology Services organization is responsible for advancing information technology performance and delivering solutions with a focus on maximizing ROI, increasing efficiency and enhancing the experience of end users. Guided by experienced leaders, Corporate Systems seamlessly integrate with advanced Technology and Operations to drive our enterprise forward. Our Systems Reliability and Software Delivery teams are unwavering in their commitment to excellence, ensuring every solution is robust and efficient. When you step into a career with AT&T, you won't just imagine the future, you'll create it.

What You'll Do

The Principal, Tech Business Management will serve as a strategic business partner for EASE, helping connect infrastructure strategy, financial performance, investment choices, and measurable outcomes. The role will bring strong business and financial acumen to strategic planning and portfolio decisions, helping leaders understand the economics of technology services and make informed choices about where and how EASE invests.

Working closely with EASE leaders, Finance, portfolio integration leaders, service and application owners, Architecture, Data, and other partners, the Principal will help maintain alignment across strategic priorities, objectives and key results, financial outlook, and current and future investment needs. The role will direct and partner with dedicated finance resources to develop the models, analyses, and scenarios needed for decisions; help prioritize investments; govern and develop business cases; and translate financial and operational insights into recommendations for senior leaders.

Key Responsibilities

• Synthesize business, financial, operational, and strategic information into concise executive insights and decision support, leading through influence across a complex, matrixed organization.

• Help establish common management practices for technology economics, investment governance, business cases, OKRs, and value realization, including decision criteria, templates, and operating cadences.

• Maintain and track EASE strategic priorities, objectives and key results, providing visibility into progress, performance gaps, and areas requiring leadership attention or intervention.

• Govern and help develop business cases, including problem definition, strategic alignment, alternatives, costs, benefits, assumptions, risks, measures, and value-realization expectations.

• Help leaders prioritize investments across competing needs by framing strategic alignment, expected value, financial implications, constraints, risks, and trade-offs.

• 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; translate the implications into clear options, trade-offs, and recommendations for senior leaders and Portfolio Integration Leads.

• Direct and partner with dedicated finance resources to develop financial analyses, forecasts, investment scenarios, cost views, and other models needed to support leadership and portfolio decisions.

• Help build and evolve EASE's approach to technology economics, including unit-economics views for business services, applications, infrastructure capabilities, and other technology services, so leaders can better understand cost drivers, consumption, and value.

• Partner with EASE leaders to connect strategic priorities, technology plans, financial considerations, and expected outcomes into an integrated business view.

What You'll Need

Required Qualifications

• 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.

What You'll Bring

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.

• Finance, FP&A, TBM, product management, portfolio management, Agile, SAFe, or business-case certification.

• Experience with Technology Business Management, cost-to-serve, unit-cost, total-cost-of-ownership, service costing, or technology-value approaches.

• Experience with Apptio, Nicus, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, Jira Align, Power BI, financial-planning platforms, or comparable tools.

• Experience establishing OKRs, portfolio measures, executive scorecards, investment-review forums, and value-realization practices.

• 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.

• A leadership style combining strategic perspective, commercial judgment, financial discipline, technology curiosity, analytical rigor, and collaborative influence.

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Our Principal Technology Strategy jobs earn between $141,300.00 - $237,400.00 USD Annual. Not to mention all the other amazing rewards that working at AT&T offers. Individual starting salary within this range may depend on geography, experience, expertise, and education/training.

Joining our team comes with amazing perks and benefits:

• 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

Weekly Hours:

40

Time Type:

Regular

Location:

Dallas, Texas, USA:GA:Atlanta / 1057 Lenox Park Blvd Ne - Adm:1057 Lenox Park Blvd Ne

Salary Range:

$141,300.00 - $237,400.00

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