Project Manager - PMO

About the role

NTT DATA is seeking a Project Manager - PMO to join the team in Jersey City, New Jersey. The role involves hands‑on PMO activities supporting banking technology and transformation programs.

Responsibilities

• Perform hands-on PMO activities supporting banking technology and transformation programs.
• This is a hands‑on delivery role requiring the individual to personally own and execute PMO activities rather than only provide oversight or coordination.
• Work closely with Project Managers, Program Managers, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and delivery teams to track project plans, sprint commitments, milestones, dependencies, and deliverables.
• Prepare and maintain weekly project status reports, dashboards, management presentations, and executive‑level reporting.
• Own and maintain RAID logs (Risks, Actions, Issues and Dependencies), proactively following up with owners and escalating items requiring management attention.
• Coordinate and support project governance forums, Steering Committee meetings, program reviews, and working‑group meetings, including preparation of agendas, presentations, meeting minutes, decisions, and action tracking.
• Support delivery in an Agile environment, participating in relevant Agile ceremonies and working closely with Scrum teams to track delivery progress, impediments, dependencies, and commitments.
• Consolidate information from multiple workstreams and provide a clear view of overall program status, key risks, upcoming milestones, and areas requiring attention.
• Perform hands‑on tracking of project financials including budgets, forecasts, actuals, resource costs, and variances.
• Track resource requirements, onboarding/offboarding, allocation, utilization, and capacity across project teams.
• Maintain project plans, governance artifacts, documentation repositories, change requests, decision logs, and other required PMO documentation.
• Work with business, technology, operations, vendors, and other stakeholders to drive closure of actions and ensure delivery commitments are met.
• Identify gaps in