{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"e9a15f1b8d405dadc3472248","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/e9a15f1b8d405dadc3472248","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/e9a15f1b8d405dadc3472248","title":"Senior Program Manager, Data Governance & Analytics","description":"The Senior Program Manager, Data Governance & Analytics establishes and leads the data governance, reporting, and analytics strategy for Global Program Controls. This role is accountable for ensuring that portfolio delivery data is consistently defined, accurately maintained, appropriately governed, and translated into actionable insights for senior leadership.\nAs the recognized subject matter expert for program data and performance reporting, this individual will define the policies, standards, operating mechanisms, and analytical capabilities that enable trusted decision-making across the global portfolio. The role owns the authoritative delivery data framework, executive portfolio dashboards, operational reporting suite, data quality program, stewardship network, and reporting calendar.\nThis position operates across multiple organizations and systems, including Jira, Primavera Cloud, Apex, Unifier, financial platforms, and business intelligence tools. The Senior Program Manager will influence senior leaders, program controls teams, technology partners, finance organizations, and functional stakeholders to establish consistent data practices and improve portfolio visibility.\nThe successful candidate combines deep expertise in data governance, business intelligence, and program controls with strong executive communication and cross-functional leadership. This is a highly influential individual contributor role that leads enterprise-scale programs and processes through expertise, partnership, and strategic influence rather than direct people management.\nKey Responsibilities\nData Governance Strategy and Leadership\nEstablish and lead the Global Program Controls Data Governance program, including its strategy, policies, standards, operating model, controls, and performance measures.\nDevelop the overarching data governance policy framework and ensure alignment with enterprise data, security, compliance, and technology requirements.\nDefine decision rights, ownership models, escalation paths, and governance forums for portfolio delivery data.\nAdvise leadership on data governance, reporting strategy, analytical capability, and portfolio performance measurement.\nEvaluate emerging technologies, governance practices, and analytical approaches that can improve data quality, accessibility, automation, and decision-making.\nLead complex, cross-functional data initiatives that span multiple organizations, regions, business processes, and technology platforms.\nData Standards, Dictionary, and Lineage\nLead development and maintenance of the authoritative data dictionary for delivery data across Jira, Primavera Cloud, Unifier, financial systems, and reporting platforms.\nDefine standard business terms, metric definitions, calculation methodologies, source-system ownership, and acceptable-use requirements.\nEstablish and maintain data lineage documentation that maps data from source systems through integrations, transformations, semantic models, dashboards, and reports.\nEnsure that key portfolio metrics have documented definitions, accountable owners, approved sources, and transparent calculation logic.\nResolve conflicting definitions and promote consistent use of data and metrics across teams and regions.\nData Quality and Issue Resolution\nDefine and enforce data quality rules for completeness, validity, accuracy, consistency, timeliness, and uniqueness.\nEstablish scheduled data quality monitoring, automated validation checks, exception reporting, and data quality scorecards.\nCreate measurable data quality targets and communicate trends, gaps, and risks to leadership and data owners.\nOperate the data issue resolution process, giving stakeholders a clear mechanism to report suspected data defects.\nLead root-cause analysis and corrective-action efforts for recurring or high-impact data issues.\nPartner with system owners and business teams to address upstream process weaknesses rather than relying solely on downstream corrections.\nEnsure executive and operational reports are validated for accuracy and completeness before distribution.\nMaster Data and Data Stewardship\nGovern critical master and reference data, including canonical site names, project identifiers, regional hierarchies, organizational structures, program classifications, and reporting dimensions.\nEstablish and manage a cross-functional data stewardship network.\nIdentify data owners and stewards within each functional area and define their responsibilities, decision authority, and expected service levels.\nProvide training, guidance, tools, and ongoing support to data stewards and contributors.\nFacilitate governance forums that address data quality, definition changes, ownership gaps, and cross-system alignment.\nMentor peers and stakeholders on governance, reporting, data interpretation, and analytical best practices.\nExecutive Reporting and Analytics\nOwn the strategy, design, development, and ongoing maintenance of the global portfolio executive dashboard and operational reporting suite.\nTranslate complex program, schedule, cost, risk, and workflow data into clear, visually compelling insights for vice presidents and other senior leaders.\nEstablish reporting standards covering templates, visualization conventions, metric definitions, validation protocols, version control, distribution, and retention.\nManage the reporting calendar and ensure reports are produced, reviewed, approved, and distributed according to established cadences.\nRespond to ad hoc leadership requests for custom analysis, scenario evaluation, and portfolio deep dives.\nSystems and Data Partnerships\nPartner with systems integration, data engineering, IT, and application teams to ensure reliable and scalable data flows.\nDefine business requirements for integrations, data models, reporting layers, controls, and workflow enhancements.\nPartner with system owners to align data access policies with role-based access, confidentiality, security, and business requirements.\nAssess the downstream reporting and governance impact of system, process, and data-model changes.\nEnsure analytical products draw from governed, traceable, and trusted data sources.\nDrive adoption of reusable data products and self-service reporting capabilities while maintaining appropriate governance and controls.\nStakeholder Leadership and Influence\nBuild and maintain a broad network across Global Program Controls, delivery organizations, finance, IT, data engineering, system administration, and senior leadership.\nLead through influence across teams where formal authority may not exist.\nCommunicate recommendations, risks, tradeoffs, and decisions to both technical and non-technical audiences.\nFacilitate alignment among stakeholders with competing requirements, definitions, or priorities.\nRepresent Global Program Controls in enterprise data, reporting, and technology forums.\nProvide coaching and mentorship to analysts, program managers, data stewards, and other peers across the line of business.\nFoster inclusive collaboration by ensuring relevant stakeholders are represented in governance, reporting, and decision-making activities.\n\nRequired Qualifications\nExtensive experience leading data governance, analytics, business intelligence, program controls, or enterprise reporting in a complex global environment.\nDemonstrated experience building or significantly maturing a data governance or enterprise reporting program.\nExpert knowledge of at least one relevant specialist area, such as data governance, business intelligence, program controls, data management, or portfolio analytics.\nDeep understanding of:\nData quality management\nMaster and reference data management\nData lineage and metadata management\nData ownership and stewardship\nMetric governance\nReporting controls\nAnalytical data modeling\nExpert proficiency with Power BI or Tableau, including dashboard design, semantic or data modeling, calculated measures, and report distribution.\nStrong knowledge of program controls and performance metrics, including schedule variance, cost variance, forecast accuracy, service-level performance, and earned value.\nExperience extracting, interpreting, reconciling, or reporting data from Primavera P6 and Jira.\nExperience defining executive dashboards and translating complex data into concise, decision-oriented narratives.\nDemonstrated success influencing senior leaders and cross-functional teams across organizational boundaries.\nAbility to lead multiple complex initiatives with significant business impact, ambiguity, and interdependencies.\nStrong written, verbal, facilitation, and executive presentation skills.\nProficiency with Jira, Confluence, and enterprise reporting or analytics platforms.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience supporting construction, capital programs, infrastructure delivery, or data center development.\nFamiliarity with DAMA-DMBOK or comparable data governance frameworks.\nExperience with Unifier, or similar capital project management systems.\nKnowledge of financial reporting, including budget-versus-actual analysis, cash-flow forecasting, and cost forecasting.\nExperience partnering with data engineering teams on integrations, transformation logic, data warehouses, or semantic reporting layers.\nExperience implementing automated data quality monitoring or governance workflow tools.\nFamiliarity with predictive analytics, artificial intelligence, or machine-learning applications for program controls and portfolio management.\nExperience operating in a large, globally distributed enterprise environment.\nKey Partners\nGlobal Program Controls leadership\nSystems Integration and Data Engineering\nProgram and Project Controls teams\nReporting and Analytics teams\nRoot Cause Analysis leaders\nFunctional and regional pillar leads\nData owners and data stewards\nInformation Technology and enterprise data teams\nFinance and business operations\nScheduling, cost management, risk, and delivery organizations\nScope and Impact\nServes as the recognized subject matter expert for data governance, analytics, and portfolio reporting within the line of business.\nLeads strategies, programs, and operating processes that have a material impact on portfolio visibility, data trust, and leadership decision-making.\nAdvises senior leadership on decisions involving data strategy, performance measurement, governance, systems, and reporting.\nLeads work that spans multiple functions, systems, organizations, and geographic regions.\nAddresses complex and ambiguous problems by examining systemic causes, applying industry best practices, and introducing innovative or non-conventional approaches.\nRegularly contributes to strategic planning and decision-making for Global Program Controls.\nEstablishes scalable capabilities that improve how the organization manages data, measures performance, identifies risk, and executes its global portfolio.","company":"Oracle","rawCompany":"oracle","city":"Denver","state":"CO","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-08-14T01:36:35.641Z","occupations":[{"code":"13-1082.00","title":"Project Management Specialists","slug":"project-management-specialists"},{"code":"11-3021.00","title":"Computer and Information Systems 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This role is accountable for ensuring that portfolio delivery data is consistently defined, accurately maintained, appropriately governed, and translated into actionable insights for senior leadership.\nAs the recognized subject matter expert for program data and performance reporting, this individual will define the policies, standards, operating mechanisms, and analytical capabilities that enable trusted decision-making across the global portfolio. The role owns the authoritative delivery data framework, executive portfolio dashboards, operational reporting suite, data quality program, stewardship network, and reporting calendar.\nThis position operates across multiple organizations and systems, including Jira, Primavera Cloud, Apex, Unifier, financial platforms, and business intelligence tools. The Senior Program Manager will influence senior leaders, program controls teams, technology partners, finance organizations, and functional stakeholders to establish consistent data practices and improve portfolio visibility.\nThe successful candidate combines deep expertise in data governance, business intelligence, and program controls with strong executive communication and cross-functional leadership. This is a highly influential individual contributor role that leads enterprise-scale programs and processes through expertise, partnership, and strategic influence rather than direct people management.\nKey Responsibilities\nData Governance Strategy and Leadership\nEstablish and lead the Global Program Controls Data Governance program, including its strategy, policies, standards, operating model, controls, and performance measures.\nDevelop the overarching data governance policy framework and ensure alignment with enterprise data, security, compliance, and technology requirements.\nDefine decision rights, ownership models, escalation paths, and governance forums for portfolio delivery data.\nAdvise leadership on data governance, reporting strategy, analytical capability, and portfolio performance measurement.\nEvaluate emerging technologies, governance practices, and analytical approaches that can improve data quality, accessibility, automation, and decision-making.\nLead complex, cross-functional data initiatives that span multiple organizations, regions, business processes, and technology platforms.\nData Standards, Dictionary, and Lineage\nLead development and maintenance of the authoritative data dictionary for delivery data across Jira, Primavera Cloud, Unifier, financial systems, and reporting platforms.\nDefine standard business terms, metric definitions, calculation methodologies, source-system ownership, and acceptable-use requirements.\nEstablish and maintain data lineage documentation that maps data from source systems through integrations, transformations, semantic models, dashboards, and reports.\nEnsure that key portfolio metrics have documented definitions, accountable owners, approved sources, and transparent calculation logic.\nResolve conflicting definitions and promote consistent use of data and metrics across teams and regions.\nData Quality and Issue Resolution\nDefine and enforce data quality rules for completeness, validity, accuracy, consistency, timeliness, and uniqueness.\nEstablish scheduled data quality monitoring, automated validation checks, exception reporting, and data quality scorecards.\nCreate measurable data quality targets and communicate trends, gaps, and risks to leadership and data owners.\nOperate the data issue resolution process, giving stakeholders a clear mechanism to report suspected data defects.\nLead root-cause analysis and corrective-action efforts for recurring or high-impact data issues.\nPartner with system owners and business teams to address upstream process weaknesses rather than relying solely on downstream corrections.\nEnsure executive and operational reports are validated for accuracy and completeness before distribution.\nMaster Data and Data Stewardship\nGovern critical master and reference data, including canonical site names, project identifiers, regional hierarchies, organizational structures, program classifications, and reporting dimensions.\nEstablish and manage a cross-functional data stewardship network.\nIdentify data owners and stewards within each functional area and define their responsibilities, decision authority, and expected service levels.\nProvide training, guidance, tools, and ongoing support to data stewards and contributors.\nFacilitate governance forums that address data quality, definition changes, ownership gaps, and cross-system alignment.\nMentor peers and stakeholders on governance, reporting, data interpretation, and analytical best practices.\nExecutive Reporting and Analytics\nOwn the strategy, design, development, and ongoing maintenance of the global portfolio executive dashboard and operational reporting suite.\nTranslate complex program, schedule, cost, risk, and workflow data into clear, visually compelling insights for vice presidents and other senior leaders.\nEstablish reporting standards covering templates, visualization conventions, metric definitions, validation protocols, version control, distribution, and retention.\nManage the reporting calendar and ensure reports are produced, reviewed, approved, and distributed according to established cadences.\nRespond to ad hoc leadership requests for custom analysis, scenario evaluation, and portfolio deep dives.\nSystems and Data Partnerships\nPartner with systems integration, data engineering, IT, and application teams to ensure reliable and scalable data flows.\nDefine business requirements for integrations, data models, reporting layers, controls, and workflow enhancements.\nPartner with system owners to align data access policies with role-based access, confidentiality, security, and business requirements.\nAssess the downstream reporting and governance impact of system, process, and data-model changes.\nEnsure analytical products draw from governed, traceable, and trusted data sources.\nDrive adoption of reusable data products and self-service reporting capabilities while maintaining appropriate governance and controls.\nStakeholder Leadership and Influence\nBuild and maintain a broad network across Global Program Controls, delivery organizations, finance, IT, data engineering, system administration, and senior leadership.\nLead through influence across teams where formal authority may not exist.\nCommunicate recommendations, risks, tradeoffs, and decisions to both technical and non-technical audiences.\nFacilitate alignment among stakeholders with competing requirements, definitions, or priorities.\nRepresent Global Program Controls in enterprise data, reporting, and technology forums.\nProvide coaching and mentorship to analysts, program managers, data stewards, and other peers across the line of business.\nFoster inclusive collaboration by ensuring relevant stakeholders are represented in governance, reporting, and decision-making activities.\n\nRequired Qualifications\nExtensive experience leading data governance, analytics, business intelligence, program controls, or enterprise reporting in a complex global environment.\nDemonstrated experience building or significantly maturing a data governance or enterprise reporting program.\nExpert knowledge of at least one relevant specialist area, such as data governance, business intelligence, program controls, data management, or portfolio analytics.\nDeep understanding of:\nData quality management\nMaster and reference data management\nData lineage and metadata management\nData ownership and stewardship\nMetric governance\nReporting controls\nAnalytical data modeling\nExpert proficiency with Power BI or Tableau, including dashboard design, semantic or data modeling, calculated measures, and report distribution.\nStrong knowledge of program controls and performance metrics, including schedule variance, cost variance, forecast accuracy, service-level performance, and earned value.\nExperience extracting, interpreting, reconciling, or reporting data from Primavera P6 and Jira.\nExperience defining executive dashboards and translating complex data into concise, decision-oriented narratives.\nDemonstrated success influencing senior leaders and cross-functional teams across organizational boundaries.\nAbility to lead multiple complex initiatives with significant business impact, ambiguity, and interdependencies.\nStrong written, verbal, facilitation, and executive presentation skills.\nProficiency with Jira, Confluence, and enterprise reporting or analytics platforms.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience supporting construction, capital programs, infrastructure delivery, or data center development.\nFamiliarity with DAMA-DMBOK or comparable data governance frameworks.\nExperience with Unifier, or similar capital project management systems.\nKnowledge of financial reporting, including budget-versus-actual analysis, cash-flow forecasting, and cost forecasting.\nExperience partnering with data engineering teams on integrations, transformation logic, data warehouses, or semantic reporting layers.\nExperience implementing automated data quality monitoring or governance workflow tools.\nFamiliarity with predictive analytics, artificial intelligence, or machine-learning applications for program controls and portfolio management.\nExperience operating in a large, globally distributed enterprise environment.\nKey Partners\nGlobal Program Controls leadership\nSystems Integration and Data Engineering\nProgram and Project Controls teams\nReporting and Analytics teams\nRoot Cause Analysis leaders\nFunctional and regional pillar leads\nData owners and data stewards\nInformation Technology and enterprise data teams\nFinance and business operations\nScheduling, cost management, risk, and delivery organizations\nScope and Impact\nServes as the recognized subject matter expert for data governance, analytics, and portfolio reporting within the line of business.\nLeads strategies, programs, and operating processes that have a material impact on portfolio visibility, data trust, and leadership decision-making.\nAdvises senior leadership on decisions involving data strategy, performance measurement, governance, systems, and reporting.\nLeads work that spans multiple functions, systems, organizations, and geographic regions.\nAddresses complex and ambiguous problems by examining systemic causes, applying industry best practices, and introducing innovative or non-conventional approaches.\nRegularly contributes to strategic planning and decision-making for Global Program Controls.\nEstablishes scalable capabilities that improve how the organization manages data, measures performance, identifies risk, and executes its global portfolio.","datePosted":"2026-08-14T01:36:35.641Z","dateModified":"2026-08-14T01:36:35.641Z","hiringOrganization":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Oracle","sameAs":"https://jobsearcher.com"},"jobLocation":{"@type":"Place","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressLocality":"Denver","addressRegion":"CO","addressCountry":"US"}},"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","name":"JobSearcher","value":"e9a15f1b8d405dadc3472248"},"url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/e9a15f1b8d405dadc3472248"}}