We are seeking a Portfolio Delivery Analyst to coordinate portfolio planning, forecasting, reporting, and delivery operations across the Data & Analytics organization.
This role provides the analysis, visibility, and operational support necessary to help leadership make informed decisions regarding demand, capacity, funding, priorities, and delivery commitments. The Portfolio Delivery Analyst serves as a key partner to Product, Data Strategy, Engineering, Business Analysts, Scrum Masters, and leadership teams by maintaining portfolio information, facilitating portfolio processes, and providing insights that improve transparency, planning accuracy, and delivery effectiveness.
The ideal candidate is highly organized, analytical, proactive, and comfortable working across multiple teams while supporting portfolio planning, reporting, governance, and continuous improvement activities in a fast-paced environment.
What Will You Be Doing?
Portfolio Operations & Reporting
- Coordinate day-to-day portfolio operations across a diverse portfolio of Data & Analytics initiatives.
- Maintain portfolio roadmaps, planning artifacts, milestone tracking, and portfolio reporting.
- Prepare dashboards, reports, and presentations that provide visibility into delivery progress, risks, constraints, and portfolio performance.
- Support portfolio review activities through preparation of governance materials, reporting, and analysis.
- Help ensure portfolio data, metrics, and reporting remain accurate, current, and accessible.
Intake & Demand Management
- Coordinate intake processes and provide analysis to support planning, prioritization, and investment discussions.
- Partner with Product Owners, Business Analysts, and stakeholders to ensure intake requests contain sufficient information to support evaluation and planning.
- Analyze delivery impacts, capacity considerations, dependencies, resource requirements, and delivery risks associated with incoming demand.
- Maintain visibility into incoming requests and support portfolio planning discussions through reporting and analysis.
- Ensure intake processes, documentation, and portfolio records remain consistent and transparent.
Capacity Planning & Resource Forecasting
- Coordinate quarterly and ongoing capacity planning activities across delivery teams.
- Analyze demand versus available capacity to support planning discussions and delivery commitments.
- Develop resource forecasts and maintain workforce planning information for leadership review.
- Prepare planning scenarios and supporting analysis that identify resource constraints, forecast impacts, and planning considerations.
- Partner with Scrum Masters, leadership, and delivery teams to improve planning accuracy and portfolio predictability.
- Support contractor planning, workforce forecasting, and resource continuity activities.
Strategic Initiative Coordination
- Provide portfolio coordination support for strategic initiatives and cross-team efforts.
- Track milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions, and action items across participating teams.
- Coordinate stakeholder communications and planning activities associated with major initiatives.
- Prepare status updates, reporting, and supporting materials for leadership review.
- Help maintain visibility into initiative progress, commitments, and potential delivery impacts.
Portfolio Metrics & Delivery Insights
- Monitor throughput trends, work-in-progress (WIP), aging work, blocked work, and delivery flow metrics.
- Analyze delivery data to identify potential bottlenecks, risks, and systemic constraints.
- Maintain forecast accuracy and delivery performance reporting.
- Provide analysis and reporting that support discussions around delivery predictability, planning effectiveness, and portfolio health.
- Develop dashboards and portfolio reporting solutions that enable data-driven decision making.
Cross-Team Dependency Coordination
- Coordinate cross-team dependency tracking and maintain visibility into dependency status and impacts.
- Support dependency identification, documentation, and reporting throughout initiative lifecycles.
- Maintain dependency tracking artifacts and communicate potential impacts to stakeholders.
- Assist teams in monitoring and resolving dependency-related risks.
- Escalate unresolved dependency concerns through established portfolio processes.
Release Readiness Support
- Coordinate portfolio-level release visibility, readiness activities, and stakeholder communications across participating teams.
- Assist with preparation of release readiness reviews and supporting materials.
- Track release milestones, readiness indicators, implementation risks, and key dependencies.
- Ensure release information is collected, documented, and communicated appropriately.
- Support post-release reviews, lessons learned activities, and continuous improvement efforts.
Portfolio Financial Support
- Prepare analysis and reporting to support portfolio budgeting, forecasting, investment planning, and funding discussions.
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