Technical Program Manager

Las Vegas, NV - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 13 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Role Summary

We are seeking a senior Technical Program Manager to lead complex multi workstream data platform initiatives using Databricks and modern ETL/ELT patterns. The TPM will drive strategy delivery and governance across data engineering analytics and platform modernization efforts-managing roadmaps budgets risks and stakeholder communication while enabling high-performing teams to deliver business value at scale.

Key Responsibilities

Program Leadership & Strategy

Own end to end program strategy roadmap and execution for Databricks centric data platform initiatives.
Translate business outcomes into measurable OKRs/KPIs and delivery milestones.
Orchestrate cross functional delivery across data engineering platform DevOps QA and security teams.

Delivery Management

Establish delivery governance (RAID change control dependencies risk burndown) and ensure on time on budget delivery.
Drive Agile at scale (Scrum/Kanban/SAFe) sprint health throughput and release management.
Define and enforce SLAs/SLOs for data pipelines batch/streaming jobs and analytics products.

Technical Program Ownership (Databricks/ETL)

Guide solution direction for Databricks (Apache Spark Delta Lake Unity Catalog) ETL/ELT flows and data warehousing.
Oversee modernization/migration programs (onprem to cloud) cost optimization (cluster policies job scheduling) and performance tuning.
Ensure robust CI/CD for data pipelines IaC for platform components and environment parity across Dev/Test/Prod.

Data Architecture & Governance

Partner with architects on data models lakehouse patterns CDC and medallion architecture.
Implement data quality lineage cataloging and access controls (e.g. Unity Catalog row/column-level security).
Ensure compliance with data privacy and regulatory requirements (e.g. PII/GDPR as applicable).

Stakeholder & Customer Management

Engage senior business stakeholders product owners and client leadership; manage expectations and executive reporting.
Convert ambiguous requirements into clear program epics with acceptance criteria and success measures.
Lead partner/vendor engagements SOWs and third party delivery alignment.

People Leadership

Build and mentor high-performing teams (engineering managers data engineers analysts QA).
Lead hiring capacity planning performance management and career development.
Promote engineering excellence documentation discipline and a culture of continuous improvement.

Financials & Commercials

Own program budgets resource plans and cost controls (cloud/Databricks spend).
Track and report financials: forecasts burn rates and variance analysis.
Support proposals estimations and SOW renewals/extensions.

Must Have Skills

Program Management

Enterprise-scale program ownership governance RAID management executive communication.
Strong backlog management prioritization and stakeholder alignment.
Proven delivery of multi workstream multi vendor programs.

Databricks & Data Engineering

Databricks (Spark Delta Lake Unity Catalog Job clusters) performance tuning & cost governance.
ETL/ELT using Azure Data Factory / Synapse Pipelines / dbt / Airflow / Informatica (any strong combo).
Strong SQL & practical Python for data workflows; CI/CD (Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions/Jenkins).
Data warehousing/lakehouse patterns; batch & streaming (e.g. Structured Streaming).

Cloud (one or more)

Azure (preferred) AWS or GCP-including storage compute IAM networking basics and monitoring.

Data Governance & Quality

Data cataloging/lineage DQ frameworks access control secrets management auditability.

Leadership & Communication

Team leadership (15 40 members) mentorship and conflict resolution.
Clear concise communication with senior business and technical audiences.

Good to Have

Certifications: PMP/Prince2 SAFe/CSM Databricks Data Engineer Professional Azure/AWS cloud certs.
Tools: Terraform/Bicep Datadog/CloudWatch/Log Analytics Great Expectations Monte Carlo Collibra/Purview.
Domain exposure: Media/Entertainment Telecom BFSI or Retail/E commerce.

Education

Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science Engineering Information Systems or related field (or equivalent experience).

Role Summary We are seeking a senior Technical Program Manager to lead complex multi workstream data platform initiatives using Databricks and modern ETL/ELT patterns. The TPM will drive strategy delivery and governance across data engineering analytics and platform modernization efforts-ma...