Job Description

IT Execution & Governance Analyst

Role Summary:

The IT Execution & Governance Analyst supports Technology Leads, Technology Managers, Portfolio Managers, and centralized governance teams by coordinating, preparing, analyzing, and maintaining key operational and governance deliverables across the IT organization. This role helps accelerate execution by taking a first pass at required materials, improving data quality, preparing insights from systems of record, tracking completion of recurring activities, and ensuring leaders have the information needed to review, refine, and make timely decisions.

Role Clarification

This role is not intended to replace Technology Leads, Technology Managers, Architects, Portfolio Managers, or decision-makers. Instead, the analyst enables those leaders by preparing draft materials, improving data quality, coordinating recurring work, tracking actions, and providing analysis so leaders can focus on review, refinement, decision-making, and strategic direction.

Required Technical Skills

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.
• 3+ years of experience in IT portfolio management, project governance, technology operations, data analysis, or execution support.
• Proficiency with portfolio, work management, reporting, or collaboration tools such as Azure DevOps, Targetprocess, Power BI, Excel, Teams, and SharePoint.
• Strong analytical, organizational, stakeholder management, and communication skills.
• Ability to work with incomplete information, structure first-draft materials, follow up with stakeholders, and escalate blockers appropriately.

Required Functional/Domain Knowledge

Supports Technology Leads, Technology Managers, Portfolio Managers, and governance stakeholders in managing recurring execution, portfolio performance, data quality, architecture-related deliverables, resource information, and governance standards.

• Support centralized execution and governance activities across IT, including portfolio standards, recurring deliverables, data quality, resource information, and architecture-related materials.
• Partner directly with Technology Leads and Technology Managers to maintain visibility into upcoming work, required actions, decision points, and completion timelines.
• Prepare first-draft materials, pre-populated templates, data summaries, and initial analysis so leaders can review, refine, and finalize content more efficiently.
• Schedule and coordinate regular touchpoints with Technology Leads, Technology Managers, Portfolio Managers, and governance stakeholders to keep work progressing on a weekly and monthly basis.
• Maintain action trackers, follow up with owners, coordinate dependencies, and escalate blockers, risks, or data gaps in a timely manner.
• Support prioritization of initiatives based on strategic alignment, delivery progress, dependencies, and resource capacity.
• Maintain and update portfolio management standards, required fields, and related data in tools such as Azure DevOps.
• Help ensure initiatives align with Enterprise Performance expectations by verifying that in-scope epics have EP IDs in ADO and correspond with value delivery standards.
• Monitor and analyze EPMP ADO reports, portfolio dashboards, and other systems of record to identify gaps, risks, trends, and opportunities for improvement.
• Support product teams and technology leaders in the creation, standardization, and maintenance of strategic roadmaps and architecture roadmaps used for long-term direction and tradeoff discussions.
• Assist with documenting and maintaining architecture standards, reference materials, governance artifacts, and related backend system information.
• Support CMDB updates and technology inventory data quality activities by collecting inputs, validating information, and tracking required updates to completion.
• Maintain and update resource profiles, staffing assignments, and related workforce planning information to support resource and capacity discussions.
• Convert complex portfolio, resource, architecture, and operational information into clear summaries, insights, and recommendations for different audiences.
• Collaborate with product line leaders, Department Portfolio Managers, EPMO governance teams, architecture stakeholders, and Epic Owners to ensure transparency, alignment, and execution discipline.
• Identify process gaps, data quality issues, and improvement opportunities, and recommend practical actions to improve execution and governance effectiveness.

Analytics, Reporting, and Data Quality

• Perform data quality cleanup across portfolio, resource, architecture, CMDB, and other systems of record used for governance and operational reporting.
• Analyze portfolio, resource, and operational data to generate practical insights that support technology and portfolio decision-making.
• Build, maintain, or support dashboards, trackers, scorecards, and recurring reports for leadership and governance routines.
• Identify inconsistencies, missing information, process gaps, and opportunities to improve data reliability.
• Prepare concise leadership-ready summaries that highlight key findings, risks, dependencies, decisions needed, and recommended next steps.

Additional Preferred Technical Capabilities (Nice-to-Have):

• Advanced analytics skills, including Power BI, Excel, data modeling, or dashboard development.
• Strong understanding of ADO data structures, Agile metrics, portfolio KPIs, and delivery health indicators.
• Familiarity with portfolio financial concepts, value tracking, lean business cases, and strategic prioritization.
• Experience supporting technology roadmaps, architecture roadmaps, standards documentation, or CMDB data quality activities.
• Experience with automation tools, such as Power Automate, or process improvement methods that reduce manual effort.
• Exposure to dependency, risk, resource, and capacity analysis in complex IT environments.