Senior Data Platform Strategist & Governance Lead

PINNACLE GROUP (Pinnacle Technical Resources); Richmond (VA); Hybrid; USD 83,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

PTR Global in Richmond, Virginia seeks a Senior Systems Analyst (Data Platform Engineering) for a 12-month contract to define enterprise data platform capabilities and governance. You will partner with platform leaders, architects, and business stakeholders to translate strategy into actionable roadmaps and initiatives.

The ideal candidate will influence decisions across the organization, align with regulatory and security needs, and deliver measurable platform outcomes.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to develop strategic roadmaps, business cases, governance frameworks, and long-term technology plans.
• Experience facilitating executive-level stakeholder engagement and supporting large-scale technology transformation initiatives.
• Strong expertise in strategic planning, portfolio and demand management, business process analysis, and decision-support methodologies.
• Excellent communication, presentation, stakeholder management, and facilitation skills with the ability to influence cross-functional teams and leadership.
• Experience with enterprise data platforms, cloud and hybrid architectures, data warehousing, data integration, analytics, and BI solutions.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Platform Product Owners and business stakeholders to drive platform strategy, governance, portfolio management, and technology alignment.
• Develop and maintain multi-year platform roadmaps aligned with business objectives, technology priorities, and industry trends.
• Identify platform capability gaps, risks, dependencies, and investment opportunities while facilitating strategic planning discussions.
• Establish and support governance processes for platform investments, demand intake, prioritization, and portfolio management.
• Evaluate and prioritize platform initiatives, including the development of business cases and investment recommendations.
• Translate business objectives into platform capability requirements, ensuring alignment with regulatory, operational, security, and strategic needs.
• Collaborate with business leaders, architects, engineering, infrastructure, and security teams to drive cross-functional alignment and informed technology decisions.
• Develop executive presentations, dashboards, KPIs, and reporting materials for leadership reviews and governance forums.
• Monitor portfolio performance, roadmap execution, benefit realization, and strategic objectives to ensure delivery of expected outcomes.
• Support the establishment and adoption of platform standards, policies, governance frameworks, and best practices.
• Facilitate governance reviews, risk assessments, compliance activities, and audit support.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Strategic planning

Executive-level communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentoring / advisory

Tools

Snowflake

Oracle Exadata

Denodo

Talend

Informatica Data Catalog

Power BI

Job description

PTR Global in Richmond, Virginia seeks a Senior Systems Analyst (Data Platform Engineering) for a 12-month contract to define enterprise data platform capabilities and governance. You will partner with platform leaders, architects, and business stakeholders to translate strategy into actionable roadmaps and initiatives.

The ideal candidate will influence decisions across the organization, align with regulatory and security needs, and deliver measurable platform outcomes.