Remote Portfolio PM – Data Platform Enablement

Eliassen Group; Hagåtña (GU); On-site; USD 83,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Portfolio Project Manager to support a Platform Enablement team within a large enterprise data organization. This remote contract role will oversee a portfolio of small-to-mid-sized data platform initiatives focused on creating, configuring, and delivering data custodians in a Databricks-based ecosystem.

You will drive agile delivery, restore structure and planning discipline, coordinate cross-functional teams, and provide portfolio-level visibility for leadership.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of Project or Program Management experience.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent data/analytics projects.
• Strong Agile knowledge and stakeholder communication.
• Ability to work remotely and independently.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage multiple concurrent data platform initiatives across the Platform Enablement organization.
• Oversee project scope, schedules, risks, dependencies, milestones, and deliverables.
• Manage an initial portfolio of 3–4 active projects with additional workstreams as launched.
• Develop and maintain project plans, documentation, status reporting, and executive communications.
• Establish and maintain portfolio-level visibility and a roadmap for platform enablement initiatives.
• Facilitate sprint planning, backlog prioritization, reviews, retrospectives, and delivery tracking.
• Support a semi-agile model utilizing PI Planning and sprint-based execution.
• Restore structure and planning discipline following a period without dedicated project leadership.
• Coordinate activities across engineers, data teams, business stakeholders, and leadership.
• Align deliverables with strategic priorities and organizational objectives.
• Partner with Platform Enablement to set up enterprise data stores and custodians.
• Coordinate setup and delivery of data ingestion pipelines, rules, properties, synchronization, transformations, custodian configurations, and data access controls.
• Facilitate onboarding of new data custodians across data owners, engineering, and analytics stakeholders.
• Support connection and enablement of analytics platforms, including Power BI, to new data environments.
• Communicate proactively with stakeholders and leadership, identify risks, elevate blockers, and drive resolution.
• Maintain governance to prevent unapproved or conflicting priorities and deliver regular updates and dashboards.

Skills

Portfolio management

Agile delivery

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional coordination

Remote work

Tools

Databricks

Power BI

Jira

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Portfolio Project Manager to support a Platform Enablement team within a large enterprise data organization. This remote contract role will oversee a portfolio of small-to-mid-sized data platform initiatives focused on creating, configuring, and delivering data custodians in a Databricks-based ecosystem.

You will drive agile delivery, restore structure and planning discipline, coordinate cross-functional teams, and provide portfolio-level visibility for leadership.