Certifications:
- SAFe LPM Certification a plus
Required Skills:
- Effective Communication Skills: Written, Verbal, Presentation.
- Strong understanding of Agile and Scaled Agile.
- Strong knowledge of software development processes and procedures to understand team needs includes fundamentals of iterative and incremental development.
- Three years of portfolio management experience or equivalent leadership experience.
- Three years of industry experience preferred.
- Experience with agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, etc.
Senior Portfolio Analyst Overview:
Looking for highly skilled Agile SAFe Senior Portfolio Analyst. This role helps align strategy and execution by applying Lean and systems thinking approaches to strategy and investment funding, Agile portfolio operations, and governance. Supports the prioritization of work and financial accountability for the products and solutions in a portfolio. Coordinate, sustain, and improve value streams. Plan and monitor IT budgets to ensure alignment with strategic initiatives/objectives. Forecast future budget needs, measure portfolio performance, and coordinate required compliance activities.
As an Agile SAFe Senior Portfolio Analyst, the role will have:
- Financial Accountabilities Assist with Financial Operations includes assisting with department financials, including outlook locks, op planning, monthly reserving, capitalization, financial reporting supporting the CIO and business as needed, and various related items e.g. expense approver.
- Vendor management, including contracts, Purchase Orders, MBM, invoice approvals.
- Partner with Director of Portfolio Lead to champion the finance evolution to Agile funding value streams, product vs. project mindset, Agile estimation
- Workforce Accountabilities: Assist in developing and maintaining a workforce strategy, inclusive of vendor partners, such that the ratios of employee and or vendor, onshore and or offshore, HIG offices, etc. are considered to achieve an optimum balance.
- Provides support for data capture, metrics, measurement, ratios, projections around work force.
- Understanding current and target team compositions, and path forward via hiring and other levers.
- Coordination of required or needed training, continuous learning activities.
- Portfolio Accountabilities Contribute towards the identification and definition of development value streams across the portfolio and alignment to CIO areas technology roadmap.
- Portfolio Kanban partner closely with Director Portfolio Lead to contribute to ensuring the phase gate deliverables are complete and establishing the investment prioritization process is transparent and collaborative.
- Provide support to establish portfolio flow to visualize and limit Work in Process WIP, reduce batch sizes of work, and control the length of longer-term development queues.
- Assist with establishing and maintaining an overall CIO portfolio view.
- Provide support to prepare for portfolio health reviews, scorecards, MOR meetings.
- Assist with the reporting of key portfolio metrics e.g., employee engagement, customer satisfaction, productivity, agility, time to market, quality, partner health.
- Contribute toward creating a culture of continuous improvement and innovation, adopting OwnIT,
- Agile and DevOps mindsets, leveraging Harvest, enabling high performance.
- Assists with coordinating a continuous approach to ensure compliance with audit and regulatory requirements and non-discretionary initiatives.
- Assists with Rally support and data management.
- Strong influencing skills and ability to build partnerships at various levels of the organization.
- Strong financial acumen and knowledge of IT financial management practices.
- Proven ability to build commitment and empower others, communicate with clarity, courage and timeliness.
Location: Role can be in Hartford, CT, OR Charlotte, NC
- **Only those lawfully authorized to work in the designated country associated with the position will be considered.**
- **Please note that all Position start dates and duration are estimates and may be reduced or lengthened based upon a client’s business needs and requirements.**
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