<div class="content-intro"><p>At Cortland, we operate with a forward-thinking approach that challenges conventional norms and actively seeks insights beyond traditional industry boundaries. As a recognized leader in the multifamily sector, our focus on performance, innovation, and disciplined execution continues to drive strong growth and market leadership. We are committed to building a best-in-class organization by empowering top talent with the resources, autonomy, and support needed to deliver results and advance their careers in a high-performance environment.</p></div><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Role Overview</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">As the Technology Strategy & Transformation Associate, you'll help translate business problems into technology strategies, investment cases, and actionable roadmaps through analysis, research, and structured discovery. You'll work across the business and technology organization to evaluate opportunities, inform investment decisions, and measure whether delivered solutions achieve their intended outcomes.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Discovery & Business Analysis</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Support discovery with business stakeholders by interviewing users, mapping current-state processes, analyzing pain points, and documenting requirements and success measures.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Translate business requests into clear problem statements and requirements that business and technical teams can evaluate and act on.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Use structured problem-solving and data to distinguish stated requests from underlying business needs and challenge assumptions when evidence supports a different approach.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Develop an understanding of business processes, economics, and systems across Cortland to identify opportunities for technology to improve business outcomes.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Coordinate across business and technology teams by preparing materials, documenting decisions, and driving action items to completion.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Roadmap & Strategic Planning</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Maintain technology roadmaps and capability plans, including initiative inventories, timelines, dependencies, priorities, and status.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Analyze roadmap progress and prepare executive-ready materials that clearly communicate priorities, trade-offs, risks, and decisions needed.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Track KPIs, OKRs, adoption measures, and post-launch results to identify where performance differs from plan and support corrective action.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Develop broad exposure to AI, data, enterprise technology, and digital solutions while helping determine how technology investments support business priorities.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Business Cases & Investment Analysis</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Build financial models that evaluate ROI, three-year total cost of ownership, expected benefits, and measurable baselines for technology investments.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Analyze operational and financial data to quantify business problems, establish baselines, test assumptions, and estimate potential value.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Support business cases that allow technology opportunities to be evaluated consistently and compared against competing investments.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Translate financial and operational analysi