Manager, Technology Strategy and Transformation - Atlanta, GA

The role

You will translate business goals into technology strategies, investment cases, and prioritized roadmaps. You will lead discovery, solution selection, and remain accountable for business outcomes after delivery.

What you will do

• Build and maintain technology strategies and roadmaps.
• Translate executive priorities into requirements and sequenced initiatives.
• Lead intake and discovery to prioritize opportunities.
• Create a shared view of technology build, buy, or enable plans.
• Identify and advance AI, data, and emerging technology opportunities.
• Lead build-vs-buy-vs-partner decisions through market research and evaluations.
• Partner with technical teams to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture.
• Develop investment cases including ROI and total cost of ownership.
• Evaluate technology cost structures and operating models.
• Build partnerships with business leaders to frame needs around outcomes.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years in management or technology consulting, corporate strategy or development, finance, or product management.
• Meaningful exposure to technology investment decisions.
• Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, economics, information systems, engineering, computer science or a related field.
• Track record of owning the outcome of a delivered solution or project.
• Experience working cross-functionally to ensure successful delivery.
• Demonstrated ability to build an investment case: ROI, total cost of ownership, and benefit modeling against a baseline.
• Experience running a vendor selection or build-vs-buy decision.
• Fluency in business processes and unit economics.
• Ability to make implications of an analysis actionable for executives.
• Comfortable with ambiguity.
• Advanced in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
• Proficient in SQL, work management tools such as Jira and Confluence, and understanding of data platform architecture.

Nice to have

• real estate experience

About the company

Cortland is an international, vertically integrated multifamily real estate investment, development, and management firm. It is recognized as one of the top 10 multifamily owners and operators in the US.