PMO Director

NTT DATA, Inc.; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 112,000 - 187,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Job summary

NTT DATA seeks a Private Cloud PMO Director in Austin, TX, to lead PMO governance, integrated planning, and executive reporting for private cloud services transformations. The role requires coordinating across customers, vendors, and delivery teams, ensuring milestone tracking and risk management in a highly visible enterprise setting.

The ideal candidate has extensive PMO leadership experience, strong stakeholder management, and a track record of delivering complex cloud transformation programs

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience leading complex technology programs, private cloud services, infrastructure transformation, or large-scale IT delivery initiatives.
• 7+ years of experience in PMO leadership, program management, or portfolio management within multi-vendor and matrixed delivery environments.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, Engineering, Management Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead the PMO function for private cloud services and transformation programs, including governance, integrated planning, executive reporting, milestone tracking, risk management, issue escalation, and delivery assurance.
• Coordinate across customer stakeholders, NTT DATA delivery teams, private cloud platform teams, infrastructure teams, application owners, security teams, procurement, and third-party vendors to maintain alignment and accountability.
• Develop and maintain integrated program schedules, transformation roadmaps, dependency logs, action item registers, decision logs, and executive status materials.
• Facilitate governance routines including working sessions, daily or weekly program reviews, risk and issue forums, stakeholder briefings, and steering committee preparation.
• Partner with technical architects and engineering teams to track platform readiness, workload migration planning, dependency resolution, cutover planning, operational transition, and post-transition stabilization.
• Provide fact-based, executive-ready communications that clearly identify progress, blockers, decisions needed, schedule impacts, financial considerations, and recovery actions.
• Navigate complex stakeholder dynamics with professionalism, discretion, and sound judgment in a highly visible enterprise delivery environment.
• Support service transition activities including operational readiness, support model alignment, runbook development, SLA/KPI reporting expectations, escalation procedures, and handoff to managed services operations.
• Drive accountability across matrixed teams while maintaining a collaborative, transparent, and client-centered delivery approach.

Skills

PMO leadership

stakeholder management

governance

executive reporting

risk management

integrated planning

milestone tracking

communication

vendor relationships

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT/CS/Engineering or related field

Job description

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NTT DATA strives to hire exceptional, innovative and passionate individuals who want to grow with us. If you want to be part of an inclusive, adaptable, and forward-thinking organization,

We are currently seeking a PMO Director to join our team in Austin, Texas (US-TX), United States (US).

NTT DATA is seeking a Private Cloud PMO Director with a proven record of success leading complex cloud, infrastructure, and managed services transformation programs. This senior, client-facing role will provide PMO leadership, delivery governance, integrated planning, executive reporting, stakeholder management, and risk-based delivery assurance across a high-visibility private cloud services engagement. The ideal candidate will bring disciplined program management practices, strong technical credibility, executive presence, and the ability to operate effectively across customer leadership, technology teams, security stakeholders, vendors, cloud partners, and NTT DATA delivery organizations. This role is based in Austin, Texas, with an expectation to work from the NTT DATA office two to three days per week and participate onsite in customer meetings as required.

Location: Austin, TX (Hybrid)

In this role you will be responsible for:

• Lead the PMO function for private cloud services and transformation programs, including governance, integrated planning, executive reporting, milestone tracking, risk management, issue escalation, and delivery assurance.
• Coordinate across customer stakeholders, NTT DATA delivery teams, private cloud platform teams, infrastructure teams, application owners, security teams, procurement, and third-party vendors to maintain alignment and accountability.
• Develop and maintain integrated program schedules, transformation roadmaps, dependency logs, action item registers, decision logs, and executive status materials.
• Facilitate governance routines including working sessions, daily or weekly program reviews, risk and issue forums, stakeholder briefings, and steering committee preparation.
• Partner with technical architects and engineering teams to track platform readiness, workload migration planning, dependency resolution, cutover planning, operational transition, and post-transition stabilization.
• Provide fact-based, executive-ready communications that clearly identify progress, blockers, decisions needed, schedule impacts, financial considerations, and recovery actions.
• Navigate complex stakeholder dynamics with professionalism, discretion, and sound judgment in a highly visible enterprise delivery environment.
• Support service transition activities including operational readiness, support model alignment, runbook development, SLA/KPI reporting expectations, escalation procedures, and handoff to managed services operations.
• Drive accountability across matrixed teams while maintaining a collaborative, transparent, and client-centered delivery approach.

Required Experience:

• 12+ years of experience leading complex technology programs, private cloud services, infrastructure transformation, managed services transitions, workload migrations, or large-scale IT delivery initiatives.
• 7+ years of experience in PMO leadership, program management, or portfolio management within multi-vendor and matrixed delivery environments.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, Engineering, Management Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

Preferred Skills and Candidate Attributes:

• PMP certification required; PgMP, PMI-ACP, ITIL, private cloud, infrastructure, or other cloud-related certifications preferred.
• Proven record of success leading enterprise-scale private cloud, hybrid cloud, infrastructure, or managed services programs with measurable delivery outcomes.
• Experience supporting enterprise, public-sector, government, or highly regulated clients where governance, procurement, compliance, and executive communications are critical.
• Strong understanding of private cloud platforms, infrastructure, networking, security, application dependencies, database considerations, disaster recovery, and managed services operating models.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical and non-technical stakeholders through planning, execution, issue resolution, and executive decision-making processes.
• Proven experience developing executive‑level reporting, steering committee materials, integrated project plans, RAID logs, transformation dashboards, and formal governance documentation.
• Strong technical credibility with the ability to understand private cloud platform readiness, architecture dependencies, security impacts, network constraints, and operational transition requirements.
• High political acumen and sound judgment; able to navigate sensitive customer dynamics, vendor relationships, executive scrutiny, and competing priorities with professionalism and discretion.
• Executive presence with the ability to communicate complex program information clearly to senior leaders, technical teams, business stakeholders, and partner organizations.
• Excellent facilitation, negotiation, conflict‑resolution, meeting management, and follow‑through skills.
• Ability to create structure in ambiguous environments, drive accountability, and maintain disciplined documentation across fast‑moving workstreams.
• Ability to work from the NTT DATA Austin office two to three days per week and participate onsite in customer meetings as needed.
• Comfortable working in a high‑pressure delivery environment where scheduled commitments, customer confidence, technical blockers, and vendor coordination must be managed simultaneously.

Where required by law, NTT DATA provides a reasonable range of compensation for specific roles. The starting pay range for this role is $111,975 - $186,625. This range reflects the minimum and maximum target compensation for the position across all US locations. Actual compensation will depend on a number of factors, including the candidate’s actual work location, relevant experience, technical skills, and other qualifications. This position may also be eligible for incentive compensation based on individual and/or company performance.

This position is eligible for company benefits including medical, dental, and vision insurance with an employer contribution, flexible spending or health savings account, life and AD&D insurance, short and long term disability coverage, paid time off, employee assistance, participation in a 401k program with company match, and additional voluntary or legally‑required benefits.

About NTT DATA

NTT DATA is a $30 billion business and technology services leader, serving 75% of the Fortune Global 100. We are committed to accelerating client success and positively impacting society through responsible innovation. We are one of the world’s leading AI and digital infrastructure providers, with unmatched capabilities in enterprise-scale AI, cloud, security, connectivity, data centers and application services. our consulting and Industry solutions help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have experts in more than 50 countries. We also offer clients access to a robust ecosystem of innovation centers as well as established and start‑up partners.NTT DATA is a part of NTT Group, which invests over $3 billion each year in R&D.

Whenever possible, we hire locally to NTT DATA offices or client sites. This ensures we can provide timely and effective support tailored to each client’s needs. While many positions offer remote or hybrid work options, these arrangements are subject to change based on client requirements. For employees near an NTT DATA office or client site, in‑office attendance may be required for meetings or events, depending on business needs. At NTT DATA, we are committed to staying flexible and meeting the evolving needs of both our clients and employees. NTT DATA recruiters will never ask for payment or banking information and will only use @nttdata.com, @nttdatafed.com and @talent.nttdataservices.com email addresses. If you are requested to provide payment or disclose banking information, please submit a contact us form, https://us.nttdata.com/en/contact-us .

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