Technical Project Manager Application Portfolio Management & Rationalization

Job Title: Technical Project Manager Application Portfolio Management & Rationalization
Contract Length: 6 Months
Location: Akron, OH
Work Setup: On-Site

Technical Project Manager Position Overview

FirstEnergy is seeking an experienced Technical Project Manager to lead a six-month Application Portfolio Management (APM) and Rationalization initiative. This hands-on role will drive project governance, application assessments, stakeholder collaboration, and development of a strategic application roadmap across approximately 12 domains.

Technical Project Manager Responsibilities

• Lead project planning, schedules, milestones, governance, RAID logs, and executive reporting.

• Facilitate workshops with Enterprise Architecture, IT leadership, application owners, and business stakeholders.

• Coordinate application inventory assessments, business capability mapping, and portfolio data validation.

• Identify application redundancies, technical debt, modernization opportunities, and ERP consolidation candidates.

• Drive Tolerate, Invest, Migrate, or Eliminate (TIME) recommendations.

• Deliver rationalization assessments, architecture views, phased roadmaps, and executive presentations.

Technical Project Manager Qualifications

Required:

• 7+ years of technical project management or enterprise IT delivery experience.

• Hands-on APM, application rationalization, or modernization experience.

• Strong workshop facilitation, stakeholder management, and executive communication skills.

• Expertise in governance, scope management, risk mitigation, and Agile/Waterfall delivery.

• Working knowledge of enterprise architecture and application portfolios.

Preferred:

• PMP, PMI-ACP, or SAFe certification.

• Electric utility, energy, or regulated industry experience.

• ERP modernization and large-scale application consolidation experience.

• Familiarity with ServiceNow APM, LeanIX, Ardoq, Jira, MS Project, EPRI, or TOGAF.

Technical Project Manager Success Criteria

Deliver an approved Business Capability Model, application rationalization recommendations, and an actionable phased roadmap within six months.

We look forward to reviewing your application!