Director of Application Lifecycle Management, Equinix
$155-233k
Canada - Toronto Office TRO : 166,000 - 248,000 CAD / Annual + Bonus
Digital infrastructure company
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Digital infrastructure company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$155-233k
Canada - Toronto Office TRO : 166,000 - 248,000 CAD / Annual + Bonus
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide finance, manufacturing, transport, government, and healthcare organizations a cloud-first world.
Role
Who you are
- Extensive experience in IT strategy, application portfolio management, enterprise architecture, technology transformation, or consulting, with a track record of leading complex enterprise initiatives
- Proven experience leading enterprise application rationalization, cost optimization, M&A integration, modernization, or a comparable technology transformation program
- Strong understanding of application lifecycle management, enterprise architecture, dependency mapping, technical debt, and technology risk
- Experience developing business cases, total cost of ownership models, ROI assessments, and benefits-tracking approaches
- Strong program leadership across complex, multi-year, cross-functional initiatives
- Demonstrated ability to influence without direct authority, align stakeholders, and move complex decisions forward in a global, matrixed organization
- Excellent analytical, executive communication, and change leadership skills, with sound judgment in making portfolio recommendations when data is incomplete or trade-offs are complex
What the job involves
- This role sits at the center of enterprise application portfolio optimization, helping the business make clearer decisions about which applications to invest in, consolidate, modernize, or retire
- As Director of Application Lifecycle Management, you will guide an enterprise-wide effort to simplify and govern the application landscape, reducing complexity while protecting critical business capabilities
- You will lead the strategy, governance, and execution of application portfolio rationalization, helping the business reduce cost, redundancy, and risk while protecting critical operations. Partnering with business functions, technology, Enterprise Architecture, security, procurement, and finance, you will translate portfolio data into clear recommendations, investment priorities, and an actionable multi-year roadmap
- Lead the enterprise application portfolio strategy and rationalization roadmap
- Build and maintain a trusted application inventory that captures ownership, cost, usage, dependencies, technical health, risk, and lifecycle status
- Apply a consistent decision framework to determine whether applications should be retained, optimized, consolidated, migrated, or retired
- Develop business cases, total cost of ownership models, and ROI assessments to support portfolio decisions and investment priorities
- Lead portfolio governance by providing steering committee and executive updates, tracking decisions and milestones, managing program budget and financial performance, and escalating risks, trade-offs, and issues that require leadership attention
- Oversee execution across the full portfolio lifecycle, including application migrations, data transitions, business readiness, change adoption, user transition planning, and vendor contract exits
- Operate the application intake governance process by assessing proposed purchases against existing internal capabilities, strategic fit, architecture alignment, total cost, and the risk of unnecessary duplication
- Define responsibilities and provide guidance to application owners and the Enterprise Architecture community throughout the portfolio lifecycle
- Drive retirement plans in partnership with application and infrastructure owners
- Translate complex portfolio data into clear recommendations and trade-offs, building alignment across business and technology stakeholders on a portfolio roadmap for leadership
- What Success Looks Like:
- Reduced application redundancy, licensing and support costs, technical debt, and portfolio risk
- A trusted application portfolio with clear ownership, decision history, and lifecycle status
- Successful execution of portfolio decisions without disruption to critical business capabilities
- Repeatable portfolio governance embedded in ongoing operations
- Stakeholder trust strengthened through transparent, evidence-based portfolio decisions
Our take
Equinix is a veteran player in the digital infrastructure market, connecting industry-leading organizations in finance, manufacturing, retail, transportation, government, healthcare, and education.
The company provides a range of services within the categories of digital, support, data center, and interconnection, with capabilities including, for example, simplifying hybrid cloud deployments or securing on-site deployments. It has an extensive range of partners, granting its clients access to a vast range of industry-leading technologies atop its own offerings.
With a wide global presence, Equinix has secured a path to continued success by its ability to keep abreast of developments in the space. The company is comfortably positioned to remain a robust and leading player across multiple growth avenues and can be expected to make more smart developments and partnerships in the future.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Redwood Shores, Redwood City, CA
Leadership
Adaire Fox-Martin
(CEO & President)Prior to becoming CEO of Equinix in 2024, Adaire spent nearly 3 years at Google in various roles, including Head of Google Ireland and President of Google Cloud Go to Market. She also spent nearly 14 years at SAP and over 18 years at Oracle Corporation.
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