Senior IT Program & Project Management Analyst

Job Track Description:

The Senior IT Program & Project Management Analyst is responsible for supporting the planning, execution, governance, reporting, and delivery of IT projects. This role partners with delivery teams, business stakeholders, product owners, and technology leaders to ensure successful delivery of IT initiatives.

The position provides PMO leadership, project controls, portfolio reporting, risk and issue management, schedule governance, resource planning support, and executive-level communications while driving consistency with organizational project management standards and best practices.

Key Responsibilities

Project Governance

• Support execution of multiple IT projects across the organization.
• Establish and maintain project governance processes, standards, and controls.
• Facilitate project reviews and status reporting.
• Ensure compliance with project management methodologies and organizational standards.
• Track project performance against scope, schedule, budget, and quality objectives.

Planning and Delivery Management

• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, roadmaps, milestones, and dependencies.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams to ensure deliverables are completed on schedule.
• Monitor project progress and proactively identify schedule variances.
• Support release planning, implementation planning, and delivery readiness activities.

Risk, Issue, and Dependency Management

• Maintain project risk, issue, action item, and decision logs.
• Facilitate identification, assessment, and mitigation of delivery risks.
• Escalate critical issues and dependencies to leadership with recommended corrective actions.
• Monitor mitigation plans through resolution.

Reporting and Executive Communication

• Prepare executive-level project status reports.
• Develop dashboards, KPIs, and portfolio metrics.
• Present project health, risks, achievements, and delivery forecasts to leadership.
• Generate management reports using project management and reporting tools.

Financial Management

• Assist with project budget monitoring and financial reporting.
• Track project expenditures and identify budget variances.

Stakeholder Management

• Collaborate with business leaders, technology teams, vendors, and customers.
• Facilitate meetings, workshops, planning sessions, and governance reviews.
• Drive stakeholder alignment on priorities, dependencies, and delivery commitments.
• Ensure effective communication across all levels of the organization.

PMO Process Improvement

• Identify opportunities for improving project delivery processes.
• Drive adoption of Agile, Scrum, SAFe, and project management best practices.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives across the PMO.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business Administration, Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in IT project management, PMO, or project governance roles.
• Experience supporting large-scale enterprise technology initiatives.
• Strong understanding of project management methodologies including Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, and SAFe.
• Experience managing cross-functional and geographically distributed teams.

Required Skills

• Project management
• Project planning and scheduling
• Risk and issue management
• Stakeholder management
• Financial and resource management
• Executive reporting and presentations
• Requirements tracking and traceability
• Change management
• Vendor management
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Preferred Tools Experience

• Microsoft Project
• Azure DevOps (ADO)
• Microsoft Office
• Microsoft Power BI

Preferred Certifications

• PMP (Project Management Professional)
• SAFe Agilist (SA)
• PRINCE2 Practitioner
• Scrum Master Certification