Sr. Application Portfolio Analyst

Corporate

Owns application lifecycle and health for assigned portfolios; leads rationalization and modernization; uses APM/SAM data for strategic analysis and governance alignment.

The Senior Application Portfolio Analyst is responsible for managing and optimizing assigned business application portfolios. This includes overseeing application lifecycle activities, evaluating business and technical value, identifying rationalization opportunities, and ensuring alignment with ZOLL Global IT and ZOLL Business Units’ goals. The role requires strong collaboration with application owners, Global IT, Security, Software Engineering, and Enterprise Architecture to govern application health, compliance, and modernization across the portfolio.At ZOLL, we're passionate about improving patient outcomes and helping save lives.

We provide innovative technologies that make a meaningful difference in people's lives. Our medical devices, software and related services are used worldwide to diagnose and treat patients suffering from serious cardiopulmonary and respiratory conditions.

Job Summary

As a Strategy & Governance team member, Application Portfolio Manager assists in analyzing, maintaining, prioritizing, tracking the lifecycles, and managing day-to-day business applications. You will need to Interact with various application owners, IT, Security teams, engineering, and applications developers to identify and address the lifecycle of applications. You will need to understand the constraints on the portfolio. These constraints may include resources, compliance with regulations or security, operational continuity planning, technology limitation, funding, and physical space.

Essential Functions

• Identify and eliminate redundant and unused applications
• Consolidate similar applications into a single new application
• Retire older and more expensive-to-maintain applications
• Determine which data flows through which applications to optimize security controls
• Identifying and automating changes to the application service life cycles
• Organizing applications according to business capabilities.
• Categorizing the applications based on their business capabilities
• Arranging IT components into technology stacks
• Documenting all applications currently or previously deployed in an organization, as well as those planned
• Assessing the function and technical value of applications
• Creates a collaborative partnership among IT leaders and portfolio stakeholders and enables resource demand planning, change management, and project pipeline planning decisions
• Creates a collaborative partnership among IT leaders and portfolio stakeholders and enables resource demand planning, change management, and project pipeline planning decisions
• Works with the Project Manager and the team to determine the best mix of application development and third-party vendor solutions to meet business requirements and project objectives
  
  

Required/Preferred Education And Experience

• BA/BS Degree required
• Relevant experience may substitute for the degree requirement on a year-for-year basis required and
• 3 + years of IT Portfolio Management Experience required and
• 2 + years of experience in project coordination, management, and project delivery accountability required and
• 3 - 5 years of experience in enterprise analysis required and
• Prior experience leading diverse and collaborative relationships across multiple teams required
  
  

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Excellent soft skills greatly preferred, e.g., adaptability, emotional intelligence,
• perseverance, active listening
• Mindfulness Effective negotiating, consulting & coaching skills
• IT Systems Management knowledge-knowledge of the asset and process management practices, requirements, and support services of the IT function is preferred
• IT Systems Management knowledge of the asset and process management practices, requirements, and support services of the IT function is preferred
• Must demonstrate strong analytical, reasoning, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to set priorities and adapt to changes in a quick, professional manner
• Ability to use discretion when handling confidential information
• Proven technical project management experience
• Knowledge of information security best practices
• Experience with Microsoft Office, SharePoint, and various PM Tools
• Knowledge of application support principles
• Knowledge of Cloud technologies
• Demonstrated outstanding oral and written communication and interpersonal skill
  
  

ZOLL is a fast-growing company that operates in more than 140 countries around the world. Our employees are inspired by a commitment to make a difference in patients' lives, and our culture values innovation, self-motivation and an entrepreneurial spirit. Join us in our efforts to improve outcomes for underserved patients suffering from critical cardiopulmonary conditions and help save more lives.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.