Portfolio Manager

Our Why

Datacom works with organisations and communities across Australia and New Zealand to make a difference in people’s lives and help organisations use the power of tech to innovate and grow.

About the Role

We’re looking for an experienced Portfolio Manager to lead the successful delivery of complex IT programmes and portfolios within a government customer environment. In this role, you’ll oversee governance, delivery assurance, financial management, stakeholder engagement, and portfolio performance across multiple interdependent initiatives.

You’ll work closely with senior customer stakeholders, delivery teams, vendors, and internal service lines to ensure programmes are aligned to strategic outcomes, delivered to agreed standards, and effectively managed from inception through to implementation.

This is a senior leadership role suited to someone who thrives in complex enterprise environments, brings strong commercial and delivery capability, and has a proven background managing large-scale technology portfolios within government sectors.

Our offices are based in Wellington. This role is onsite only and requires regular in-person collaboration with both the customer and Datacom teams.

What you’ll do

At the moment, as Portfolio Manager you will be focused on:

• Leading governance and assurance practices across complex IT programmes and portfolios

• Managing a portfolio of large-scale applications and infrastructure projects

• Providing oversight of risks, issues, dependencies, financials, reporting, and delivery outcomes • Coordinating multiple programme streams to provide a single portfolio view for stakeholders

• Driving portfolio planning, scheduling, resource management, and prioritisation activities

• Undertaking portfolio health checks and assurance reviews to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture and delivery methodologies

• Building trusted relationships with government stakeholders, vendors, and internal teams

• Leading continuous improvement initiatives across portfolio delivery practices

• Supporting and mentoring programme and project delivery teams

• Ensuring contractual obligations, governance requirements, and quality standards are achieved

We are a pretty agile company, and are keen to respond to customer, technology and internal stakeholders’ changing requirements and this can mean we evolve in our roles to meet those needs.

What you’ll bring

Required experience:

• Minimum 15 years’ experience across project management, programme management, and portfolio management within Information Technology

• Recent experience leading complex IT programmes or portfolios in enterprise environments

• Proven experience working with Government Agencies

• Strong understanding of portfolio governance, risk management, financial oversight, and delivery assurance frameworks

• Demonstrated experience managing large, complex infrastructure and applications projects

• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence at senior levels

• Experience leading teams in fast-paced, multi-stream delivery environments

• Strong commercial, analytical, and strategic thinking capability

• New Zealand Citizenship is required due to the nature of the customer environment

• Ability to complete and pass government clearance and police check processes prior to employment

• Wellington-based and available to work onsite with the customer and Datacom teams

Nice to have:

• PRINCE2, PMP, MSP, Agile or other relevant project/programme management certifications

• Experience with enterprise architecture alignment and IT governance frameworks

• Experience within large enterprise or professional services environments

• MBA or relevant tertiary qualification in IT, Business, Engineering, or related discipline

Why join us here at Datacom?

Datacom is one of Australia and New Zealand’s largest suppliers of Information Technology professional services. We have managed to maintain a dynamic, agile, small business feel that is often diluted in larger organisations of our size. It's our people that give Datacom its unique culture and energy that you can feel from the moment you meet with us.

We care about our people and provide a range of perks such as social events, chill-out spaces, professional development courses and career growth opportunities to name a few. You’ll have the opportunity to learn, develop your career, connect and bring your true self to work. You will be recognised and valued for your contributions and be able to do your work in a collegial, flat-structured environment.

We operate at the forefront of technology to help Australia and New Zealand’s largest enterprise organisations explore possibilities and solve their greatest challenges, so you will never run out of interesting new challenges and opportunities.

We want Datacom to be an inclusive and welcoming workplace for everyone and take pride in the steps we have taken and continue to take to make our environment fun and friendly, and our people feel supported.

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