Enterprise Technology Engagement Director

About the opportunity

SWCA Environmental Consultants is seeking an Enterprise Technology Engagement Director to join our Information Technology team. This leadership role is responsible for advancing SWCA's most complex and strategically important internal initiatives with significant technology dependencies. You will guide enterprise portfolio priorities, architecture governance, business engagement, and execution planning to ensure alignment with established company and technology strategies.

Working closely with executive sponsors, business stakeholders, and technology leaders, you will lead a multidisciplinary team that shapes investment recommendations, develops strategic roadmaps, and oversees a portfolio of enterprise initiatives. Success in this role requires the ability to build alignment across functions, manage competing priorities, and lead teams through complex organizational and technology-driven change.

This position provides the opportunity to influence enterprise decision-making, strengthen technology delivery capabilities, and help drive measurable business value through a disciplined, transparent, and strategically aligned portfolio of initiatives.

This is a full-time, regular (with benefits), salaried/exempt position that is distributed (=remote) based anywhere in the United States. Depending on business needs, this position may require 10% -15% travel to support stakeholder engagement, planning activities, governance meetings, and strategic initiative delivery.

Application deadline : Applications will be accepted through November 4, 2026 at 5:00 PM PST.

What you will accomplish

Intake, Business Engagement & Strategic Alignment:

- Lead the enterprise intake and discovery framework, ensuring consistent governance, prioritization, and issue escalation across strategic initiatives.

- Partner with business stakeholders to translate organizational needs into requirements, business cases, acceptance criteria, and desired outcomes.

- Build trusted relationships across the organization to support effective decision-making and strategic alignment.

- Develop portfolio roadmaps and investment recommendations that align with established company and technology strategies.

- Present priorities, resource constraints, risks, and tradeoffs to executive stakeholders to support investment and prioritization decisions.

Enterprise & Solution Architecture Leadership:

- Engage architecture resources early in initiative planning to promote reusable, scalable solutions and aligned technology roadmaps.

- Guide cross-functional teams in designing secure, resilient, and supportable solutions that address business and technical requirements.

- Facilitate collaboration across systems, applications, and data domains to ensure integration, data integrity, and operational effectiveness.

- Oversee solution quality reviews and ensure appropriate technical and process documentation is developed and maintained.

- Ensure adherence to established standards and escalate unresolved security, compliance, or readiness risks to appropriate decision-makers.

Enterprise Portfolio & Program Execution:

- Provide oversight of enterprise portfolio execution, ensuring alignment between roadmaps, resource capacity, and cross-initiative dependencies.

- Maintain governance and escalation accountability across strategic initiatives, addressing scope, schedule, budget, and outcome risks.

- Evaluate and recommend recovery strategies when initiatives encounter significant delivery challenges.

- Coordinate organizational change readiness activities, including communications, training, adoption planning, and stakeholder engagement.

- Partner with sponsors, product owners, and technical leaders to support solution acceptance, operational transition, and benefits realization.

People & Capability Leadership:

- Recruit, mentor, and develop a multidisciplinary team spanning business engagement, architecture, analysis, portfolio management, and execution disciplines.

- Establish clear performance expectations, role accountability, and professional development opportunities for team members.

- Align team capacity and assignments with approved business and technology priorities.

- Delegate specialized responsibilities while maintaining overall accountability for portfolio outcomes and team effectiveness.

- Foster a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement, innovation, and workplace safety.

Governance, Accountability & Cross-Functional Coordination:

- Maintain functional accountability for intake and discovery governance, portfolio recommendations, architecture oversight, and related standards.

- Partner with the Senior Manager, Technology Portfolio & Execution to support intake operations, capacity planning, portfolio coordination, and project execution oversight.

- Provide feasibility, risk, and investment recommendations that support established company and technology strategies.

- Coordinate with executive sponsors, business sponsors, product owners, and technical leaders to align priorities, outcomes, and acceptance criteria.

- Collaborate with security, infrastructure, application, AI, data, and engineering teams to ensure compliance with standards and operating requirements.

- Facilitate resolution and escalation of cross-functional disagreements while respecting established governance, approvals, and decision rights.

Minimum Qualifications

Twelve years of relevant experience with increasing responsibility, including experience managing others. An equivalent combination of experience, performance, training, and/or education is also accepted. Knowledge normally obtained through a bachelor's degree; master's degree preferred.

Experience and qualifications for success

- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Business, Environmental Science, or a related field.

- Twelve (12) years of progressive professional experience leading technology-enabled enterprise change initiatives.

- Demonstrated leadership experience leading complex, cross-functional portfolios, programs, or enterprise initiatives with significant business and technology impact.

- Experience building, leading, and developing multidisciplinary teams.

- Experience partnering with senior business leaders and technology stakeholders to deliver strategic outcomes.

- Broad understanding of enterprise applications, data, cloud technologies, systems integration, identity management, and cybersecurity concepts sufficient to evaluate options and guide decision-making.

- Experience developing business cases, translating business needs into requirements, and supporting strategy-aligned portfolio prioritization.

- Experience establishing portfolio governance, managing cross-functional dependencies, capacity planning, forecasting schedules and costs, and making risk-based investment or lifecycle decisions.

- Strong communication, facilitation, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build consensus across diverse groups.

- Experience connecting initiative execution to business adoption, value realization, and organizational outcomes.

- Experience managing external vendors, consultants, or implementation partners.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience with enterprise business platforms such as ERP, CRM, Microsoft 365, Power Platform, or SharePoint environments.

- Experience building, maturing, or leading enterprise architecture, technology portfolio management, business analysis, or business relationship management functions.

- Experience leading organizational change and technology transformation within a distributed or geographically dispersed professional services organization.

- Experience aligning business process improvement initiatives with enterprise technology investments.

- Professional certifications such as PMP, PgMP, TOGAF, BRMP, CBRM, CBAP, Prosci, CCMP, or comparable credentials.

- Demonstrated expertise equivalent to professional certifications through relevant experience and accomplishments.

Other Job Conditions

When drug testing is required

Applicants must be willing to participate in drug and alcohol screening as part of the pre-employment process, when required by project or client requirements.

When driving is required

Applicants must possess a valid driver's license and meet SWCA's driver requirements.

When traveling is required

This position may require domestic travel, including travel by commercial airline. Candidates must be able to obtain and maintain all valid travel documents and identification required for work-related travel throughout the duration of employment.

Safety Expectations -- Director Level : Serve as an ambassador for SWCA’s Safety Culture and implementation

Pay Range

SWCA is committed to salary equity and transparency. The expected pay range for this US-based position is $153,878.40 to $201,052.80 per year. Actual pay may vary based on experience, qualifications, geographic location, and other factors permitted by law. Eligible employees may also receive performance-based bonuses. Director-level positions are also eligible for our Director+ bonus and unlimited vacation.

As a 100% employee-owned company, we invest in your future. Our Total Rewards package includes an Employee Stock Ownership Plan, 401(k) with profit sharing, medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, wellness programs, and professional development opportunities.

Closing

If you need accommodation due to a disability, please contact [email protected] or call 1 480 581 5378. If you require assistance with the application process, please contact [email protected].

Use of Technology in Hiring

SWCA may use approved technology, including AI-assisted tools, to support parts of the application and recruiting process. All selection and hiring decisions are made by SWCA employees, and candidates are not selected or rejected by automated systems. We are committed to a fair, transparent, and human-centered hiring experience.

Candidate Use of AI

Candidates may use AI tools to help prepare application materials and interviews. However, all application materials, assessments, and interview responses must accurately reflect their own experience, skills, and qualifications. AI must not be used to fabricate experience, complete assessments on their behalf, or otherwise misrepresent their background or abilities.

Equal Opportunity Employer

SWCA Environmental Consultants is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We encourage applications from women, minorities, veterans, and individuals with disabilities. We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where all employees can thrive.

SWCA continues to invest deeply in career development programs, delivering our award-winning Career Landscape support resources to accelerate the growth of our staff. We recognize the valuable skills and experiences our internal team members bring to SWCA’s continued success. Qualified internal candidates are encouraged to apply and will be seriously considered for this position. We believe in promoting from within, where possible, providing our existing employees with compelling opportunities to advance their careers.