Senior Technical Program Manager, Data

What you will do

• In this role you will:
• Own programs from problem definition and planning through delivery, adoption, and post-launch measurement.
• Build and maintain roadmaps, milestones, dependency maps, risk registers, decision logs, and the delivery mechanisms that keep them useful.
• Partner with engineering and data teams on architecture, technical constraints, sequencing, and delivery risk, at a depth that lets you challenge the plan rather than only record it.
• Coordinate data-source onboarding, ingestion, transformation, normalization, enrichment, and validation programs.
• Drive resolution of data-quality issues, operational defects, and recurring pipeline failures, including the root-cause work that stops them recurring.
• Coordinate data governance, access control, privacy, security, metadata, lineage, and compliance initiatives.
• Identify cross-team blockers and drive them to resolution without relying on formal authority.
• Facilitate technical reviews and ensure major decisions, trade-offs, assumptions, and risks are written down where people will find them.
• Coordinate launch readiness, release management, operational support, and post-launch reviews.
• Prepare clear written updates and recommendations for engineering and business leadership across India and Seattle.
• Improve program management practice, reporting automation, delivery predictability, and operational maturity at the site.
• Required qualifications
• The experience requirement is 11+ years in total, composed of 7+ years in a hands-on individual-contributor technical role and 4+ years in a technical program or project management role. The two are counted separately and added; a year spent doing both is counted once.
• At least 11 years of professional experience in total.
• At least 7 years in a hands-on individual-contributor in technical roles such as software engineering, quality assurance, data engineering, analytics engineering, systems engineering, or platform engineering.
• At least 4 years in a technical program management or technical project management role, owning delivery across engineering teams.
• Experience delivering programs involving data platforms, data pipelines, data governance, analytics infrastructure, or distributed systems.
• Working knowledge of data ingestion, ETL and ELT, batch and streaming pipelines, APIs, databases, cloud platforms, and data quality.
• Ability to read architecture diagrams and hold a substantive conversation with engineers about designs, trade-offs, dependencies, and operational risk.
• Experience managing dependencies across multiple teams, driving requirements, delivery plans, risk management, release readiness, and adoption.
• Strong written communication, including executive status reporting and written recommendations that carry out a decision.
• Ability to operate in ambiguity and influencing teams.
• Familiarity with Agile development, release processes, incident management, and production operations.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, mathematics, or equivalent practical experience.
• Preferred qualifications
• The following skill sets would be good to have:
• SQL or equivalent data-querying ability used in practice rather than in principle.
• Hands-on background with Kafka, Spark, Flink, Airflow, dbt, Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Databricks, AWS Glue, or comparable platforms.
• Experience with data governance, metadata, data lineage, access control, privacy, security, or compliance programs.
• Experience with external data suppliers, healthcare data, financial data, or other regulated datasets.
• Experience operating data platforms against measurable uptime, freshness, accuracy, completeness, latency, and cost targets.
• Experience managing distributed programs across India and the United States.
• Experience standing up program management practice at a new site or in a new platform area.
• Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, Aha, Linear, Asana, Smartsheet, or equivalent tools.