Sr. Director - IT Govern, Strat, & Innov

## Sr. Director - IT Govern, Strat, & InnovApplylocations:

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R-29391**The base salary range for this position is dependent upon experience and location, ranging from: $218,000 - $272,000****What We Offer:*** **Competitive benefits and growth opportunities*** **Generous performance‐based bonuses*** **12% 401(k) match*** **Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance*** **Tuition reimbursement*** **Professional development and clear career‐advancement pathways****For more information, please visit:** **Benefits - Avangrid****Job Summary:**The Senior Director of IT Governance, Strategy & Innovation is a key member of the Chief Information Officer’s (CIO) leadership team, responsible for shaping and operationalizing a **value‐based digital organization** that delivers measurable business outcomes through digital products and platforms.This role leads enterprise technology **strategy, investment governance, innovation enablement, and value realization**, while also owning **regulatory compliance and regulatory IT budget management** for Avangrid IT.The position ensures that digital and technology investments are tightly aligned with business priorities, regulatory commitments, and financial constraints, while fostering a strong culture of accountability, transparency, and continuous innovation across IT and business partners.The Senior Director of IT Governance, Strategy & Innovation reports into the Chief Information Officer.**Key Responsibilities:****Strategy & Value Management:*** Define and maintain the enterprise IT and digital strategy, ensuring alignment with corporate objectives, utility operating models, and regulatory expectations.* Establish and oversee a **value based product portfolio framework**, linking digital products and initiatives to clearly defined business outcomes, benefits, and KPIs.* Lead enterprise prioritization and demand management processes to balance innovation, operational resilience, regulatory mandates, and financial discipline.**Strategic Project Management & Digital Delivery:*** Provide strategic oversight of enterprise projects and digital delivery to ensure initiatives are executed **with discipline, predictability, and alignment to business and regulatory priorities.*** Establish common delivery standards and governance across **digital products, platforms, programs, and regulatory initiatives**, enabling consistent execution across agile, hybrid, and traditional models.* Ensure end to end accountability from strategy and funding through delivery, adoption, and value realization, with clear visibility into delivery performance, risks, dependencies, and outcomes.* Ensure the **CIO agenda and top priority initiatives** are executed efficiently and predictably, providing strong coordination, escalation, and delivery discipline across key strategic, regulatory, and transformation programs.**Governance & Decision Frameworks:*** Design and operate IT and digital governance models covering investment approval, portfolio management, architecture standards, risk, and value realization.* Chair or support executive governance forums to enable transparent, data driven decision making on digital investments and trade offs.* Ensure consistency of governance practices across regulated and non regulated environments, adapting controls as required.**Project Management Office:*** Own and lead the enterprise PMO, with a clear mid-term vision of transforming it into a Value Delivery Office (VDO) focused on measurable business outcomes rather than project execution.* Shift portfolio and delivery governance from project centric to value centric, aligning initiatives, products, and regulatory work to clear value metrics and benefits realization.* Provide executive transparency and discipline across delivery performance, value realization, risks, and regulatory commitments, while modernizing delivery practices and tools.* Manage all IT Technical Project managers fully embedded into the value focused methodologies and integrated into the PMO practices.**Quality Management Systems:*** Establish and continuously improve an IT Quality Management System aligned with ISO 9001, embedding quality and process discipline across strategy, delivery, and value realization.* Standardize and optimize core IT and digital processes to improve predictability, consistency, compliance, and audit readiness, in close alignment with PMO/VDO and governance frameworks.* Drive a culture of continuous improvement using quality KPIs, root cause analysis, and corrective actions, with transparent reporting to executive and governance forums.**Compliance & Regulatory Management:*** Own IT compliance oversight for the utility business, ensuring adherence to regulatory, audit, cybersecurity, data governance, and internal control requirements.* Act as the primary IT interface with regulatory, legal, audit, and risk functions for technology related compliance matters.* Lead preparation, justification, and traceability of **regulatory IT budgets**, rate cases, ensuring alignment between approved investments, delivery execution, and regulatory filings.**Financial & Portfolio Accountability:*** Own and manage the IT budget, including planning, forecasting, tracking, and variance management.* Ensure financial transparency and traceability from approved funding to delivered capabilities and realized outcomes.* Drive continuous improvement in cost optimization, capitalization strategies, and benefit realization reporting.**Innovation & Continuous Improvement:*** Establish frameworks to identify, incubate, and scale innovation, including digital platforms, data, AI, and emerging technologies across all the IT Area.* Balance innovation velocity with operational stability, regulatory compliance, and cybersecurity requirements.* Promote modern products, platforms, and agile ways of working in partnership with delivery, architecture, and business teams.**Leadership & Stakeholder Engagement:*** Lead, mentor, and develop strategy, governance, and innovation teams.* Partner closely with business executives, finance, regulatory affairs, legal, risk, and operations leaders.* Influence at executive and board levels through clear storytelling, data driven insights, and strong governance discipline.**Required Qualifications:*** Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or a related field and a minimum of 15 years of relevant experience.

An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.* Relevant experience to include progressive leadership in IT or digital strategy, governance, or transformation roles.* Demonstrated experience building and operating value‐based portfolio and product management models.* Strong background in IT governance, investment management, and compliance frameworks.* Proven experience managing large, complex budgets, including regulatory or externally scrutinized funding.* Solid understanding of regulatory environments, audit processes, risk management, and internal controls.* Experience driving innovation while maintaining operational resilience and compliance.* Exceptional executive communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills.* Strong analytical, financial, and strategic thinking capabilities.* Strong leadership skills, with a track record of managing and developing high-performing teams.* Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to make data-driven decisions.* Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, and manage competing priorities.* Effectively provides and receives information orally in individual and group situations.* Written expressions are clear, concise, and convey the desired message.* Ability to efficiently manage multiple, concurrent, time-sensitive projects and priorities.* Flexible, creative, and solution-focused outlook on problem solving.* Ability to strategize and lead the team to modernize the processes and tools used in this area.
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