Principal Project Portfolio Manager, Technology Transition

The Principal Portfolio Manager, Technology Transition leads strategy, planning, execution, and cross-functional coordination for technology transition activities within Dana-Farber’s broader collaboration transition with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. This senior role oversees the inventory, assessment, divestiture, migration, and transition of applications, infrastructure platforms, data, and system integrations as Dana-Farber decouples from Mass General Brigham and establishes its future-state environment. The position brings an understanding of technical components, interdependencies, and transition impacts across applications, data, integrations, and infrastructure to align milestones, sequencing, dependencies, and resources across clinical, IT, administrative, and partner teams through phased transition activities, including cutover, data migration, and archiving. As a leader without authority, this role is highly effective at engaging resources and driving work outputs, coordinating governance, risk management, reporting, and documentation to support Institute leadership and related future cancer hospital technology initiatives.

This position’s work location is hybrid with 2-3 days per week onsite in Boston, MA. The selected candidate may only work remote days from a New England state (ME, VT, NH, MA, CT, RI).

Located in Boston and the surrounding communities, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is a leader in life changing breakthroughs in cancer research and patient care. We are united in our mission of conquering cancer, HIV/AIDS, and related diseases. We strive to create an inclusive, diverse, and equitable environment where we provide compassionate and comprehensive care to patients of all backgrounds, and design programs to promote public health particularly among high-risk and underserved populations. We conduct groundbreaking research that advances treatment, we educate tomorrow's physician/researchers, and we work with amazing partners, including other Harvard Medical School-affiliated hospitals.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

- Coordinate development and maintenance of the integrated transition plan for decoupling applications, platforms, data flows, and system integrations from Mass General Brigham and moving to Dana-Farber’s future-state environment within the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center collaboration. Facilitate definition of scope, milestones, dependencies, sequencing, and decision points across divestiture, migration, cutover, and archiving activities.
- Lead coordination of digital and technology transition initiatives to align scope, feasibility, resources, timelines, and workstream priorities. Orchestrate execution across projects affecting applications, infrastructure platforms, data movement, and integrations across internal teams and external organizations.
- Facilitate discussions across application, infrastructure, integration, clinical, IT, and administrative teams to identify dependencies, constraints, and required inputs and outputs for transition work. Coordinate subject matter experts to define future-state disposition, migration pathways, integration requirements, and sequencing needed for transition planning.
- Maintain integrated planning, communication, and milestone alignment across clinical, IT, administrative, partner, and vendor stakeholders. Serve as a primary liaison for transition coordination with external organizations and technology partners to clarify priorities, requirements, and deliverables supporting transition and future-state objectives.
- Coordinate planning and execution oversight for phased transition activities, including cutover, data migration, system integration changes, and archiving requirements. Align scope, timing, sequencing, and handoffs across teams to support continuity, readiness, and future-state operations.
- Identify and assess risks that may affect business continuity, patient care continuity, data integrity, transition readiness, and delivery timelines. Develop mitigation approaches, use escalation paths as appropriate, monitor progress, and drive resolution of issues, constraints, and interdependencies that emerge during the transition.
- Prepare updates for technology, data and analytics workstream leaders, stakeholders, and Institute senior leadership on status, risks, decisions, and outcomes. Maintain transition documentation and identify opportunities to improve transition processes, portfolio coordination, and alignment across technology and vendor partners.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

- Knowledge of application portfolios, infrastructure platforms, system integrations, data migration, cutover planning, and archiving within a complex organizational environment.
- Knowledge of portfolio and project coordination practices for cross-functional, multi-workstream transition initiatives.
- Knowledge of portfolio and project management practices for cross-functional, multi-workstream transition programs.
- Skill in developing integrated roadmaps, milestones, dependencies, workplans, and dependency-based transition plans.
- Skill in facilitating cross-domain discussions to define technical inputs, outputs, dependencies, constraints, and sequencing requirements.
- Skill in translating technical and operational input into coordinated plans, milestones, workplans, and decision points.
- Highly effective in leading without direct authority over resources in coordinating work across clinical, IT, administrative, and partner teams to maintain alignment on scope, timing, and readiness.
- Skill in identifying risks, issues, and interdependencies and driving mitigation, escalation, and resolution planning.
- Ability to synthesize complex technical and operational information and communicate clearly with senior leaders and diverse stakeholders.

Minimum Job Qualifications

- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical field.  Business, Information Technology Management, Healthcare Administration or related field of study required.
- 8+ years of project portfolio, program management, and/ or application/platform delivery experience across large integrated systems required.
- Experience in healthcare, academic medical center, or clinical operations settings required.
- Progressive experience leading complex technology portfolios or programs involving application transitions, system integrations, data migration, cutover planning, archiving, and infrastructure or platform changes in a healthcare or similarly complex environment required.
- Experience with cross-functional coordination across internal stakeholders and external partner organizations, evaluation of application and infrastructure portfolios, management of risks and dependencies, and executive-level reporting and documentation required.

License/Certification/Registration Required:

- None Required
- Project Management Professionals (PMP) Certification preferred.

Supervisory Responsibilities:  None

Patient Contact:  None

At Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, we work every day to create an innovative, caring, and inclusive environment where every patient, family, and staff member feels they belong. As relentless as we are in our mission to reduce the burden of cancer for all, we are committed to having faculty and staff who offer multifaceted experiences. Cancer knows no boundaries and when it comes to hiring the most dedicated and compassionate professionals, neither do we. If working in this kind of organization inspires you, we encourage you to apply.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is an equal opportunity employer and affirms the right of every qualified applicant to receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, national origin, sexual orientation, genetic information, disability, age, ancestry, military service, protected veteran status, or other characteristics protected by law.

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Pay Transparency Statement

The hiring range is based on market pay structures, with individual salaries determined by factors such as business needs, market conditions, internal equity, and based on the candidate’s relevant experience, skills and qualifications.

For union positions, the pay range is determined by the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA).

$153,600.00 - $168,800.00