Senior Technical Program Manager Job ID 2026-1285
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Job Location:
El Segundo, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
9 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
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Senior Technical Program Manager Data Engineering
We are looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager to join our Technology Organization aligned with our Data Engineering function across the Legal vertical. This is a hands-on execution role coordinating across Data Engineering Product Engineering BI/Analytics System Engineering and NOC where shared infrastructure legacy systems and evolving platforms create complex interdependent delivery challenges. The ideal candidate is a strong self-starter who navigates ambiguity builds cross-functional relationships and drives business-critical initiatives with sound judgment on both immediate and long-term trade-offs.
The program portfolio spans large-scale data platform migrations ETL/ELT pipeline development BI reporting migrations and data architecture modernization across legacy and modern platforms including programs where a single infrastructure change creates cascading dependencies across multiple downstream product teams.
Primary Job Responsibilities:
- Lead strategic program planning and execution driving discovery prioritization milestone development dependency management and risk mitigation in close collaboration with product and engineering leads; communicate progress risks and retrospectives consistently across all stakeholder levels
- Manage programs where shared data infrastructure serves as a dependency for multiple concurrently executing product teams maintaining alignment across competing consumer priorities while the underlying platform is actively evolving
- Define and track measurable success criteria for data platform programs including pipeline SLA targets consumer team readiness gates data quality acceptance benchmarks and migration sign-off standards
- Proactively identify and remove impediments lead issue resolution and support teams balancing competing priorities
- Partner with stakeholders product managers and engineering to translate requirements into technical execution plans and collaborate on solution architecture from design through deployment and adoption
- Ensure continuity of systems and data flows through migrations upgrades and platform changes coordinating across data application and infrastructure layers to protect downstream consumers and production environments
Data Engineering Program Management:
- Lead end-to-end planning of large-scale data platform migrations from legacy big data clusters (e.g. Hadoop/Cloudera) to modern platforms including migration roadmap definition API/query/table dependency mapping phased cutover sequencing and multi-workstream coordination across consuming teams
- Drive data quality and validation strategies for production migrations including pre/post-migration validation frameworks rollback plans and sign-off criteria; track and communicate platform health SLA adherence and risk posture to engineering leadership
- Manage complex multi-phase infrastructure upgrade programs including platform version upgrades cluster expansions and compute environment migrations
- Facilitate alignment between data engineering teams and downstream consumers (application teams analytics BI marketing operations) to ensure pipeline continuity through platform transitions
- Support data governance and lineage documentation efforts to improve discoverability quality and reliability of data assets across the organization
Skills and Qualifications:
- 8 years of TPM experience in a scaled technology organization with a track record of managing concurrent programs spanning multiple engineering teams product lines and organizational boundaries simultaneously
- Background in product-driven SaaS or subscription businesses where data infrastructure directly supports revenue-generating product lines
- Demonstrated ability to manage programs with significant discovered scope where initial estimates expand as dependency mapping uncovers technical complexity across multiple consuming teams
- Strong stakeholder management skills in shared-infrastructure contexts where multiple product teams have competing timelines and priorities against the same platform dependencies
- Comfortable building and adapting program management workflows using low-code/no-code platforms (e.g. Airtable) including project tracking reporting templates and cross-team dashboards
- BS/BA degree required preferably in computer science or technical disciplines
Data Engineering Requirements:
- 3 years managing data engineering programs with demonstrated experience planning and executing complex multi-phase data migrations including scope definition dependency mapping phased cutover validation and post-migration stabilization
- Strong understanding of distributed systems and modern data architectures (data lakes warehouses pipelines); familiarity with big data infrastructure such as Hadoop/Cloudera Impala Spark or Postgres
- Experience managing cross-team dependencies between data engineering and application teams against shared APIs tables and pipelines; ability to engage technically with data engineers on schema design data lineage table partitioning and query migration without writing code
- Understanding of BI tooling (Tableau Power BI Looker) and how reporting layers depend on underlying data pipeline health
- Experience managing platform version upgrades cluster transitions or infrastructure modernization at scale
Preferred Qualifications:
- Scrum Master Scaled Agilist or PMP Certification
- Experience owning end-to-end program strategy and communicating results to senior leadership
- Track record of maintaining alignment and momentum on long-horizon programs (12 months) where scope priorities and resources regularly shift including programs where a single shared infrastructure dependency creates cascading timeline impact across multiple downstream teams
Data Engineering Preferred:
- Familiarity with modern analytical data platforms (Snowflake Apache Doris Vertica) and data orchestration/transformation tooling (dbt Apache Airflow Informatica Pentaho)
- Experience with cloud-based data platforms (AWS GCP Azure) spanning both cloud and on-premises infrastructure
- Experience managing data governance data quality or compliance programs (GDPR CCPA)
- Exposure to machine learning or predictive modeling programs from a TPM perspective (e.g. ML pipelines model scoring AI-powered analytics)
At Internet Brands we carefully consider a wide range of factors when determining compensation including your background and experience. These considerations can cause your compensation to vary. We expect the compensation for this role to depend on your skills qualifications and experience. We encourage all interested candidates to apply. We expect this role to start with a base in the low to mid $100ks.
In addition to our awesome culture we offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the health and well-being of you and your family. Our benefits include health insurance options such as medical dental and vision coverage flexible spending accounts (FSA) for medical and dependent care short-term and long-term disability insurance and life and AD&D insurance. We also provide a 401(k) retirement savings plan with a company match paid time off (PTO) paid holidays commuter benefits as well as access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and well-being coaching addition employees can take advantage of voluntary benefits such as home auto and pet insurance and discounted legal and financial services. For more details feel free to inquire during the interview process.
Internet Brands headquartered in El Segundo Calif is a fully integrated online media and software services company focused on four high-value vertical categories: Health Automotive Legal and Home/Travel. The companys properties and platforms include the WebMD Medscape and Henry Schein ONE networks which are the global leaders in their markets; Nolo Avvo and Martindale which form the largest consumer information provider in the legal market; and CarsDirect Fodors Travel and many others which are leaders in their key vertical markets. Internet Brands award-winning consumer websites lead their categories and serve more than 250 million monthly visitors while a full range of web presence offerings has established deep long-term relationships with SMB and enterprise clients. The companys powerful proprietary operating platform provides the flexibility and scalability to fuel the companys continued growth. Internet Brands is a portfolio company of KKR and Warburg Pincus.
Internet Brands is an equal opportunity employer and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations including the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance (FCIHO).
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Internet Brands is an online media and technology company that serves businesses and consumers in four major categories: Automotive, Health, Legal, and Home/Travel. Our fully integrated approach combines leading web solutions for businesses with media websites for consumers. IB's a ... View more
