Remote Portfolio Project Lead — Data Platform Enablement

Eliassen Group; Boise (ID); 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. You will oversee a portfolio of data platform initiatives focused on creating, configuring, and delivering data custodians within a Databricks-based ecosystem.

The role drives agile delivery, governance, and cross-functional collaboration with leadership. The position requires strong PM fundamentals, clear communication, and the ability to adapt to shifting

Qualifications

• 7+ years of Project or Program Management experience.
• Experience with Agile and project management best practices.
• Experience facilitating sprint ceremonies and coordinating cross-functional teams.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience with project financial tracking and portfolio management tools.
• Ability to work independently in a fully remote environment.
• Preferred: Scrum Master certification or Agile delivery experience.

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

Agile methodologies

Project management

Stakeholder management

Communication

Scrum Master

Tools

Databricks

Power BI

Immuta

Astronomer

Job description

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

The role drives agile delivery, governance, and cross-functional collaboration with leadership. The position requires strong PM fundamentals, clear communication, and the ability to adapt to shifting