Program Manager
About the Role
Seeking a seasoned Program Manager to lead a large-scale data platform modernization and transformation initiative. The ideal candidate will have strong experience managing complex data programs, coordinating multiple technical and business workstreams, and driving end-to-end delivery across data engineering, analytics, reporting, and data consumption teams.
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Program Leadership & Governance
- Lead end-to-end planning and execution of large-scale data modernization programs across multiple teams and workstreams.
- Establish program governance, operating cadence, milestones, dependencies, and delivery checkpoints.
- Drive alignment across data architects, engineers, analysts, testers, reporting teams, business stakeholders, and leadership.
- Maintain comprehensive RAID management, ensuring risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies are identified, tracked, mitigated, and escalated appropriately.
- Provide program-level status reporting and executive updates on progress, risks, dependencies, budget, and key decisions.
Program Planning & Delivery Oversight
- Develop and manage integrated program plans covering data integration, migration, platform modernization, analytics, reporting, and downstream data consumption.
- Coordinate multiple workstreams to ensure alignment on scope, timelines, resources, dependencies, and deliverables.
- Track progress against program milestones and proactively address delivery risks or schedule deviations.
- Manage cross-team dependencies related to data availability, architecture, tooling, environments, security, and access.
- Drive programs to successful completion within agreed scope, timeline, quality, and budget.
Stakeholder & Cross-Functional Management
- Partner closely with business leaders, technology leadership, data teams, vendors, and other stakeholders.
- Facilitate program-level decision-making and ensure timely resolution of critical issues.
- Translate technical data challenges into clear program impacts, risks, and decisions for senior stakeholders.
- Ensure alignment between business objectives, technology strategy, and program execution.
Data Governance & Transformation
- Ensure program execution aligns with enterprise data governance, data quality, security, privacy, and compliance standards.
- Coordinate data migration, integration, modernization, and consumption activities across platforms and teams.
- Support adoption of standardized data management and delivery practices across the program.
Qualifications
Bachelor's in engineering, management , finance or related field
Responsibilities
- Extensive experience as a Program Manager / Senior Project Manager leading large-scale technology or data transformation programs.
- Proven experience managing data platform modernization, data migration, data integration, analytics, BI, or data engineering programs.
- Strong understanding of modern data ecosystems, data pipelines, cloud data platforms, data warehouses/lakes, reporting, and analytics.
- Demonstrated experience managing multiple teams, interconnected workstreams, and complex technical dependencies.
- Strong program governance, RAID management, financial management, resource planning, and executive reporting capabilities.
- Experience managing programs from initiation and planning through execution, deployment, and transition.
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to work effectively across business, technology, and senior leadership teams.
- Strong proficiency with enterprise project/program management and reporting tools.
- Excellent communication, organizational, problem-solving, and executive presentation skills.
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