Big Oh Tech - Lead - Project Governance
Lead - Project Governance
Description:
- The Project Governance Lead ensures that all Professional Services projects adhere to HPE's governance framework, delivery standards, and quality expectations.
- This role provides oversight, reporting, and facilitation of governance reviews across geographies, tracks delivery progress, addresses risks proactively, enabling leadership to make informed decisions.
- The position works closely with project managers, geo leads, and delivery teams to ensure transparency, compliance, and operational excellence.
- Coaching, leading by example, and supporting the time to make pragmatic and timely decisions.
Responsibilities:
- Plan and coordinate monthly governance reviews with project managers for all active projects.
- Facilitate review sessions, analyse project health indicators (e.g., schedule variance, cost performance, risk status) to identify early warning signals, capturing key decisions and required actions.
- Ensure compliance with contractual obligations, quality standards, and HPE delivery methodologies.
- Maintain consolidated GCC governance trackers for all active projects across delivery centres.
- Liaise with PMs, delivery teams, and functional SMEs to resolve governance-related gaps.
- Escalate risks or issues that require leadership intervention.
- Capture lessons learned from governance reviews and feed them into process improvements.
- Recommend enhancements to reporting tools, trackers, and review formats for better efficiency.
- Stay updated on HPE PMO best practices, tools, and compliance standards.
Requirements:
- Strong understanding of project/program management methodologies (PMP, PRINCE2 Agile frameworks).
- Ability to identify risks, dependencies, and process non-compliance early and act on them.
- Strong communication and facilitation abilities across senior and operational levels.
- Detail-oriented with a structured, process-driven approach.
- Managing large and critical engagements across the organisation, including recovery management.
- Supervisory skills and people management skills.
- Bachelor's degree in IT, Business Management, or related field.
- 4+ years of experience in PMO, project governance, or delivery operations (HPE experience preferred).
- Certification in PMP, PRINCE2 or Agile delivery is desirable.
This job was posted by Akshita Makhni from Big Oh Tech.
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