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You will own portfolio outcomes including delivery execution, financial performance, resource planning, stakeholder engagement, risk management, and vendor oversight while partnering directly with IT and business Directors and Vice Presidents to deliver measurable business value.\nWorking closely with business and technology leaders, you will ensure the successful delivery of strategic programs, maintain reliable operations across business-critical platforms, and drive continuous enhancement initiatives. You will also play a key role in advancing AI-assisted software engineering and Spec-Driven Development practices across the portfolio.\nWhat You’ll Do\nPortfolio leadership and accountability\nBe accountable for IT delivery across given portfolio: run-and-maintain, enhancements, new projects and the new AI-first program.\nOwn portfolio scope, budget, timelines, risks and outcomes. Keep one integrated plan and roadmap across all workstreams.\nTurn business strategy into a prioritized portfolio. Work with business leaders to build business cases, define measurable outcomes and decide trade-offs between new capability, technical debt and stability.\nManage demand, capacity and funding. Track spend against budget and forecasts, and report variances early.\nSpec-Driven Development program\nLead the end-to-end delivery of the new program, from mobilization and operating-model design through releases and hand-over to operations.\nSet up the SDD delivery lifecycle: how specifications are written, reviewed and approved, how AI agents are used to build and test from them, and where human review and quality gates sit.\nWork with Architecture, Engineering, Quality, Cybersecurity and Compliance so that AI-assisted delivery meets Abbott policies, secure development practices and applicable regulatory requirements, including traceability and audit trails.\nDefine and track the metrics that show the value of the approach, such as lead time, spec-to-release cycle time, defect escape rate, rework, cost per feature and AI-generated versus human-written code ratios.\nBuild team capability: coach product owners, analysts, engineers and partners on spec writing and AI-assisted engineering. Share lessons so other portfolios can adopt the model.\nOperations and service delivery\nMake sure production platforms meet agreed service levels for availability, incidents, problem management and hypercare after releases.\nBalance run and change work. Use operational data (incident trends, root causes, technical debt) to steer the roadmap.\nStakeholder and executive management\nAct as the main delivery contact for Directors and VPs. Run portfolio and program reviews, steering committees and executive updates with clear, data-driven reporting.\nBring forward risks, dependencies and decisions early, with options and recommendations.\nBuild trust across business units, IT functions and strategic suppliers.\nGlobal team and partner leadership\nLead and develop a distributed team of program and project managers, delivery leads and analysts, plus vendor teams, across multiple geographies and time zones.\nCreate a delivery rhythm that works across regions: clear ownership, overlap hours, written decision records and shared tooling.\nManage strategic delivery partners and system integrators, including statements of work, commercial terms, performance and the supplier mix.\nQuality and compliance\nEnsure all delivery follows corporate and divisional policies, SDLC and change-control procedures, data-privacy rules and applicable external regulations.\nRequired Qualifications\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent experience.\n12+ years of IT delivery experience, including at least 5 years leading large, multi-team programs or portfolios with multi-million-dollar budgets.\nHands-on experience delivering software with a Spec-Driven Development or AI-first approach: using structured specifications as the source for AI-assisted code generation and testing, with clear review gates. 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Clear, structured communicator.\nWhat We Offer Attractive compensation package that includes competitive pay and structure Bonus, as well as benefits such as:\nPrivate Health Insurance for you and your family\nOccupational Pension Scheme with an excellence contribution rate\nBonus Target\nLife assurance\nCareer Development\nGrowing business plus access to many more benefits\nThe base pay for this position is\nN/AIn specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.\nJOB FAMILY:\nIT Business Relationship ManagementDIVISION:\nBTS Business Technology ServicesLOCATION:\nIreland > Dublin : Block G, Cherrywood, Cherrywood Business ParkADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:\nWORK SHIFT:\nIe - Cw 37.5A (Ireland)TRAVEL:\nNot specifiedMEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:\nNoSIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:\nNot 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