Remote Portfolio Project Manager, Data Platform Enablement

Eliassen Group; Carson City (NV); On-site; USD 83,000 - 90,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group seeks 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, driving agile delivery and cross-functional coordination in a remote work setting.

Responsibilities include developing plans, maintaining governance, and delivering executive-ready status updates. Experience in Databricks, Power BI, and analytics platforms is preferred, with strong communication and

Qualifications

• 7+ years of Project or Program Management experience.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent projects in data, analytics, platform engineering, or technology organizations.
• Strong understanding of Agile and project management best practices.
• Experience facilitating sprint ceremonies and coordinating cross-functional teams.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and relationship-building skills.
• Experience with project financial tracking and portfolio management tools.
• Ability to work independently in a fully remote environment.
• Experience supporting technical teams and translating business needs into actionable plans.

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

Stakeholder management

Communication

Remote work

Portfolio management

Project scheduling

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Scrum Master certification

Tools

Portfolio management tools

Job description

Eliassen Group seeks 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, driving agile delivery and cross-functional coordination in a remote work setting.

Responsibilities include developing plans, maintaining governance, and delivering executive-ready status updates. Experience in Databricks, Power BI, and analytics platforms is preferred, with strong communication and