Principal, Technology Strategy & Planning

This is a full-time onsite role based in the location(s) posted and is performed from the designated work location five days per week. No relocation is offered. AT&T will not hire any applicants for this position who require employer sponsorship now or in the future. Join AT&T and reimagine the communications and technologies that connect the world. The Technology Services organization is responsible for advancing information technology performance and delivering solutions with a focus on maximizing ROI, increasing efficiency and enhancing the experience of end users. Guided by experienced leaders, Corporate Systems seamlessly integrate with advanced Technology and Operations to drive our enterprise forward. Our Systems Reliability and Software Delivery teams are unwavering in their commitment to excellence, ensuring every solution is robust and efficient. When you step into a career with AT&T, you won't just imagine the future, you'll create it. What You'll Do The Principal, Tech Business Management will serve as a strategic business partner for EASE, helping connect infrastructure strategy, financial performance, investment choices, and measurable outcomes. The role will bring strong business and financial acumen to strategic planning and portfolio decisions, helping leaders understand the economics of technology services and make informed choices about where and how EASE invests. Working closely with EASE leaders, Finance, portfolio integration leaders, service and application owners, Architecture, Data, and other partners, the Principal will help maintain alignment across strategic priorities, objectives and key results, financial outlook, and current and future investment needs. The role will direct and partner with dedicated finance resources to develop the models, analyses, and scenarios needed for decisions; help prioritize investments; govern and develop business cases; and translate financial and operational insights into recommendations for senior leaders. Key Responsibilities • Synthesize business, financial, operational, and strategic information into concise executive insights and decision support, leading through influence across a complex, matrixed organization. • Help establish common management practices for technology economics, investment governance, business cases, OKRs, and value realization, including decision criteria, templates, and operating cadences. • Maintain and track EASE strategic priorities, objectives and key results, providing visibility into progress, performance gaps, and areas requiring leadership attention or intervention. • Govern and help develop business cases, including problem definition, strategic alignment, alternatives, costs, benefits, assumptions, risks, measures, and value-realization expectations. • Help leaders prioritize investments across competing needs by framing strategic alignment, expected value, financial implications, constraints, risks, and trade-offs. • Collaborate with Portfolio Integration Leads to connect financial insights and investment needs with portfolio direction, roadmaps, outcomes, priorities, and major decisions. • Interpret financial actuals, forecasts, variances, risks, and investment needs; translate the implications into clear options, trade-offs, and recommendations for senior leaders and Portfolio Integration Leads. • Direct and partner with dedicated finance resources to develop financial analyses, forecasts, investment scenarios, cost views, and other models needed to support leadership and portfolio decisions. • Help build and evolve EASE's approach to technology economics, including unit-economics views for business services, applications, infrastructure capabilities, and other technology services, so leaders can better understand co