Advisor - PMO Governance with Data Steward

Thryve Digital · Chennai

Collected role description

<h1>Position Summary</h1>The Delivery Management Data Steward will own PMO operational data quality, reporting governance, and stewardship across Delivery Management tools and processes. This role requires a technically strong professional who can translate business and reporting needs into practical data controls, dashboards, automated solutions, and sustainable governance practices.The ideal candidate combines deep PMO operations knowledge with hands-on technical, analytical, and stakeholder-management capabilities. The individual will partner with Project Managers, Portfolio Managers, Delivery Leaders, and PMO Governance and Tools teams to improve data accuracy, enforce standards, manage exceptions, and deliver actionable insights.<h1>Key Responsibilities</h1><h1>Data Governance and Stewardship</h1>· Establish, document, and maintain data standards, definitions, business rules, and governance controls across Delivery Management tools.· Monitor data quality and integrity, identify gaps or inconsistencies, and coordinate timely remediation.· Perform recurring audits to validate reporting accuracy, completeness, and compliance with established standards.· Define and operate structured exception-management processes, including issue tracking, root-cause analysis, escalation, and closure.· Promote consistent data ownership and accountability across project and portfolio teams.<h2>Reporting, Analytics, and Automation</h2>· Develop, maintain, and enhance operational and executive dashboards, scorecards, and recurring reports.· Create portfolio, project, resource, demand, and KPI reporting using advanced Excel and available enterprise reporting tools.· Analyze trends and convert complex data into clear insights, risks, and recommendations for leadership.· Automate repeatable data preparation, validation, reconciliation, and reporting activities where practical.· Partner with stakeholders to translate reporting needs into technically sound and scalable solutions.<h2>Tool Administration and Technical Enablement</h2>· Support and optimize Delivery Management platforms such as Planview, Agility, JIRA, and Monday.com.· Understand data structures, integrations, workflow dependencies, and reporting outputs across the tool ecosystem.· Configure or support queries, extracts, data transformations, validations, and reporting logic.· Partner with the PMO Governance and Tools team on enhancements, integrations, automation, and process improvements.· Provide guidance to users on data-entry standards, tool usage, reporting practices, and issue resolution.<h2>Stakeholder Management and Facilitation</h2>· Facilitate working sessions to resolve data issues, clarify requirements, and drive adoption of governance standards.· Collaborate effectively across business, delivery, product, and technology teams in a matrixed environment.· Communicate complex data and technical topics in a clear, concise manner for both operational and leadership audiences.· Manage competing priorities while maintaining accuracy, responsiveness, and strong customer service.<h1>Required Qualifications</h1>· Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Analytics, or a related field.· 8-10 years of relevant experience in PMO operations, portfolio governance, enterprise reporting, data management, business analysis, or related functions.· Strong technical aptitude with hands-on experience working with complex datasets, reporting logic, data validation, and automation.· Advanced Microsoft Excel expertise, including complex formulas, pivot tables, lookups, data modeling, Power Query, reconciliation, and dashboard development.· Strong understanding of project, program, portfolio, and demand-management practices.· Experience defining and enforcing data standards, controls, audit processes, and exception-management procedures.· Excellent analytical, problem-solving, facilitation, documentation, and stakeholder-management skills.· Ability to work independently, take ownership, and deliver accurate outputs in a fast-paced enterprise environment.<h1>Preferred Qualifications</h1>· Hands-on experience with one or more of the following platforms: Planview, Agility, JIRA, or Monday.com.· Experience supporting PMO governance, portfolio reporting, resource management, or demand-management functions.· Experience with Power BI, SQL, APIs, scripting, or other reporting and data-integration technologies.· Familiarity with data quality frameworks, master-data concepts, audit controls, or compliance reporting.· Java knowledge is a plus but is not required.· Experience working in a large, matrixed, global organization.<h1>Core Competencies</h1><div align="center"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td width="350" style="width:3.65in;background:#F3F6FA;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;">

Data governance and stewardship</td><td width="350" style="width:3.65in;background:#F3F6FA;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;">
Technical problem-solving</td></tr><tr><td width="350" style="width:3.65in;background:#F3F6FA;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;">
Reporting and analytics</td><td width="350" style="width:3.65in;background:#F3F6FA;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;">
Advanced Excel</td></tr><tr><td width="350" style="width:3.65in;background:#F3F6FA;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;">
PMO and portfolio operations</td><td width="350" style="width:3.65in;background:#F3F6FA;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;">
Audit and exception management</td></tr><tr><td width="350" style="width:3.65in;background:#F3F6FA;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;">
Tool and process optimization</td><td width="350" style="width:3.65in;background:#F3F6FA;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;">
Stakeholder facilitation</td></tr><tr><td width="350" style="width:3.65in;background:#F3F6FA;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;">
Executive communication</td><td width="350" style="width:3.65in;background:#F3F6FA;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;">
Continuous improvement</td></tr></tbody></table></div><h1>Success Measures</h1>· Improved accuracy, completeness, and consistency of Delivery Management data and reporting.· Reduced reporting defects, unresolved exceptions, and recurring data-quality issues.· Consistent adoption of governance standards and tool practices across teams.· More efficient reporting through standardization, automation, and reusable solutions.· Timely, reliable, and actionable insights that support leadership decision-making.

Collected experience requirement

12 - 16 Years