Lead IT Portfolio Management Analyst

Job Description: • In charge of the prioritization of projects • Auditing project alignment with overall technical or business strategy • Guiding resource allocation, and supporting the development of project or program execution plans • Manages Agile / Lean portfolios and supports overall strategy, investment funding, Agile portfolio operations, and Lean governance • Applies the concept of lean thinking to program and product and coaches stakeholders on these concepts to achieve objectives • Facilitates the portfolio management processes to ensure strategic alignment on technologies and goals • Develops and monitors reporting metrics and portfolio dashboards to allow for repeatable and predictable project or product release success • Creates visibility into areas struggling with scope, schedule, resources, or budget • Contributes to the development, management and optimization of portfolio, program, and project management methodologies and disciplines • Facilitates resource and budget planning with the IT teams on new demands and contributes to the sequencing of projects into the portfolio • Identifies dependencies and critical paths, and aids stakeholders in managing them • Improves and streamlines the portfolio and project lifecycle, by working closely with business units, user base, and tool teams • Identifies and resolves problems often anticipating issues before they occur or before they escalate; develop and evaluate options and implements solutions • Analyzes project risk profile and balance at the portfolio level • Contributes to capacity planning for initial and ongoing identification of resource needs and scheduling that will be used for making critical portfolio decisions • Develop and maintain processes to facilitate integrated project scoping between various workgroups and identifies operational impacts and dependencies • Maintain departmental work process for IT controls • Analyze demand data to identify and report on trends • Identify key leading and lagging risk factors • Ensure compliance to all policies and procedures • Drive portfolio planning and operations for assigned portfolio Requirements: • Requires a Bachelor's degree and 5 – 7 years of related experience. • Experience with ServiceNow, Flexera, and/or BDNA • Experience with Data Analysis • Knowledge of IT hardware/software assets as well as knowledge of applications and application platforms • Knowledge of JIRA • Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)-PMI required • Certified Workforce Planning Professional preferred • Certified in Governance of Enterprise IT (CGEIT) preferred Benefits: • competitive pay • health insurance • 401K and stock purchase plans • tuition reimbursement • paid time off plus holidays • flexible approach to work with remote, hybrid, field or office work schedules Apply tot his job