AT&T

AVP-Technology Program Management Office (PMO) - BSSe

AT&T$227K — $382K *
Telecommunications & Hardware
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science preferred
  • 10+ years of relevant experience
  • Senior leadership experience in technology transformation or enterprise platform modernization
  • Expertise in program and project management
  • Experience building high-performing teams
  • Strong communication skills to influence across multiple divisions
  • Experience partnering with enterprise transformation or corporate PMO

Responsibilities

  • Lead the Technical Program and Project Management Office for BSSe
  • Create an integrated execution system across various teams
  • Transform complexity into clear decisions and recommendations
  • Elevate program management to strategic delivery leadership
  • Build integrated plans highlighting dependencies and risks
  • Govern migration with clear planning and criteria
  • Collaborate with the Enterprise Transformation Office for alignment and decision support

Benefits

  • Medical/Dental/Vision coverage
  • 401(k) plan
  • Tuition reimbursement program
  • At least 28 days of vacation each year and 9 holidays
  • Paid Parental and Caregiver Leaves
  • Additional sick leave beyond legal requirements
  • Adoption Reimbursement
  • Disability Benefits (short and long term)
  • Life and Accidental Death Insurance
  • Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
  • Extensive employee wellness programs
  • Employee discounts on AT&T services and products
  • Long Term Grants and Deferred Compensation
Full Job Description

This role is based in Dallas, TX or Atlanta, GA and requires in-office presence five days per week. Relocation assistance is available for qualified candidates.

About the Role

Were hiring an AVP- Technology Program Management Office, to lead the execution engine for one of AT&Ts most important technology transformations. This senior leader will bring structure to complexity, build durable operating capability, and help deliver a multi-year transformation with clarity, predictability, and accountability.

Sitting within Business Support Systems Engineering (BSE), part of the Consumer Technology Experience (CTX) organization, this leader will own the Technical Program and Project Management function and Program Management Office for the BSSe program. The mandate is clear: enable teams to move faster, make better decisions, and deliver measurable transformation outcomes.

  • Deliver the target-state stack, safely migrate customers from legacy platforms, reduce transition risk, and improve business readiness.

  • Make delivery more predictable through credible plans, clear milestones, visible dependencies, realistic forecasts, and actionable decisions.

  • Unify product, engineering, architecture, operations, delivery, legacy, migration, vendor, and transformation teams around shared priorities and outcomes.

  • Strengthen migration governance, decision speed, accountability, and program and project management maturity across the transformation.

This leader will also serve as the primary BSSe interface to the Enterprise Transformation Office, translating BSSe plans, risks, dependencies, and performance into enterprise-ready insight and helping drive cross-program alignment, executive decision-making, and interdependency resolution.

This is a high-impact opportunity for a leader who wants to shape how large-scale transformation gets deliverednot just tracked.

Why This Role Matters

BSSe is building a unified target-state technology stack and migrating customers from legacy platforms into a modernized environment. The work is highly visible, deeply cross-functional, and central to improving customer experience, operational resilience, cost structure, and delivery speed.

Shape the execution system for a large-scale enterprise transformation. Improve predictability across planning, sequencing, dependencies, milestones, risks, decisions, and migration readiness. Align product, engineering, architecture, operations, delivery, legacy, migration, vendor, and transformation teams around shared outcomes. Modernize program and project management through AI-enabled practices, standards, reporting, and governance.

What Youll Do

Lead the Technical Program and Project Management Office

  • Own the BSSe Technical Program Management Office, including the operating model, governance, standards, cadences, and leadership expectations.

  • Create one integrated execution system across product, engineering, architecture, operations, delivery, legacy, migration, vendor, and transformation teams.

  • Turn complexity into clear decisions, tradeoffs, risks, recommendations, and executive-ready actions.

Build a World-Class Execution Capability

  • Elevate program and project management from coordination to strategic delivery leadership.

  • Define the playbooks, decision rights, execution frameworks, and quality standards required to deliver at scale.

  • Build and coach a high-performing team with clear accountability and durable operating capability.

Improve Predictability, Transparency, and Outcomes

  • Build integrated plans that surface sequencing, dependencies, milestones, risks, and decisions early.

  • Improve forecast accuracy across scope, schedule, cost, capacity, and migration readiness.

  • Replace activity reporting with transparent, decision-focused, outcome-driven insight.

Govern Migration as a First-Class Workstream

  • Plan migration waves with clear sequencing, readiness criteria, decision points, and exit conditions.

  • Surface customer, operational, technical, and service-continuity risks early.

  • Protect conversion quality, fallback readiness, stability, and customer experience during transition.

Partner with the Enterprise Transformation Office

  • Act as the primary BSSe counterpart to the Enterprise Transformation Office for governance, enterprise planning alignment, KPI/status reporting, and executive-ready decision support.

  • Lead BSSes participation in cross-program interdependency management, ensuring upstream and downstream risks, dependencies, and mitigation plans are visible, owned, and escalated when required.

  • Translate BSSe roadmaps, integrated delivery plans, and program health into concise, decision-ready narratives for enterprise governance forums, including clear tradeoffs, recommendations, and actions.

  • Work collaboratively with the Enterprise Transformation Office to improve enterprise transparency, simplify cross-program coordination, and reduce last-minute churnwhile maintaining accountability for BSSes internal execution approach, PMO operating model, and source-of-truth plans.

Create Governance That Accelerates Decisions

  • Clarify roles, decision rights, escalation paths, and accountability expectations.

  • Run BSSe governance and enterprise governance engagements that produce decisions, actions, issue resolution, and clear ownershipnot status-only updates.

  • Set consistent execution standards across FTEs, contractors, managed service providers, and vendor partners.

Lead the Shift to AI-Native Ways of Working

  • Embed AI into planning, reporting, forecasting, dependency mapping, decision support, communications, and risk detection.

  • Coach teams to use AI as a practical execution accelerator in daily program and project management work.

  • Measure AI adoption through faster cycles, better insight quality, improved capacity, and stronger delivery outcomes.

What Youll Bring

  • Bachelors degree (BS/BA) in Computer Science desired.

  • 10+ years of related experience.

  • Senior leadership experience driving large-scale technology transformation, enterprise platform modernization, complex software delivery, or migration programs.

  • Deep program and project management expertise, with demonstrated success improving delivery predictability, dependency management, executive transparency, and cross-functional execution.

  • Experience building high-performing teams, setting standards, coaching leaders, and creating durable operating capability.

  • Executive presence and communication skills to influence across Engineering, Product, Architecture, Security, Data, Operations, Finance, vendors, and senior leadership forums.

  • Experience partnering with an enterprise transformation office, corporate PMO, or strategy/governance function in a complex transformationwhile preserving clear execution ownership within the delivery organization.

  • Strong judgment in translating ambiguity, complexity, and competing priorities into clear plans, tradeoffs, recommendations, and decisions.

Preferred Experience

  • Experience in BSS, telecom, supply chain, customer migration, or large enterprise platform transformations.

  • Experience modernizing program and project management operating models, tools, templates, cadences, governance forums, and reporting practices.

  • Experience applying AI-enabled tooling to improve planning, reporting, forecasting, risk detection, productivity, quality, or execution insight.

  • Strong business acumen in portfolio planning, capital planning, financial governance, vendor performance, resource planning, and execution oversight.

Our AVP-Technology Program Management Office earns between $227,600 - $382,300. Not to mention all the other amazing rewards that working at AT&T offers. Individual starting salary within this range may depend on geography, experience, expertise, and education/training.

Joining our team comes with amazing perks and benefits:

  • Medical/Dental/Vision coverage

  • 401(k) plan

  • Tuition reimbursement program

  • Paid Time Off and Holidays (based on date of hire, at least 28 days of vacation each year and 9 company-designated holidays)

  • Paid Parental Leave

  • Paid Caregiver Leave

  • Additional sick leave beyond what state and local law require may be available but is unprotected

  • Adoption Reimbursement

  • Disability Benefits (short term and long term)

  • Life and Accidental Death Insurance

  • Supplemental benefit programs: critical illness/accident hospital indemnity/group legal

  • Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)

  • Extensive employee wellness programs

  • Employee discounts up to 50% off on eligible AT&T mobility plans and accessories, AT&T internet (and fiber where available) and AT&T phone

  • Long Term Grants and Deferred Compensation

Ready to join our team? Apply today

#LI-Onsite 6 Full-time office role

Weekly Hours:

40

Time Type:

Regular

Location:

USA:TX:Dallas / 208 S Akard St - Concourse:208 S Akard St @ Concourse

Salary Range:

$227,600.00 - $382,300.00

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