Role: Technical Project Manager - Data
Location: Remote
Contract: Longterm
Experience:10+ years
What This Person Will Own:
- End-to-end delivery of data engineering programs, with primary ownership of Customer Data Platform (CDP) initiatives — planning through launch and business-impact review.
- Reporting & analytics pack rollouts at scale — large-volume data, dashboards, visualization (Power BI or equivalent), alerting, and monitoring.
- Data migrations and integrations — coordinating schema changes, source-to-target mapping, and cutover across systems.
- Cross-functional coordination between business stakeholders, data engineering, architecture, and Data Leadership — closing gaps, resolving dependencies, keeping delivery aligned.
- Delivery documentation — requirements, milestone plans, dependency maps, and architecture/technical diagrams that data engineers can actually work from.
- Agile execution — sprint planning, backlog grooming, and translating technical data requirements into well-formed Jira epics and stories.
- UAT ownership for data deliverables — test planning, data validation/reconciliation, issue tracking, and sign-off (not generic feature UAT).
- Executive-level communication — Steer Co ownership end to end: scheduling, materials, facilitation, and driving decisions on risk and tradeoffs.
Must-Have Qualifications
MANDATORY: 10+ years as a Technical Project/Program Manager with proven, hands-on experience running data-specific programs — ETL, OLTP, OLAP, data marts, data warehousing — not just general application project management.
MANDATORY: Direct experience managing data integration, data cleansing, data reconciliation, and data representation/modeling work — this is a data process background, not a generic delivery background.
Strong Agile/Scrum practitioner, comfortable running sprint ceremonies and translating data engineering work into Jira epics/stories.
Proven experience with Customer Data Platform (CDP) programs specifically.
Hands-on experience with data analytics and BI tooling, particularly Power BI.
Strongly preferred: experience running a project centered on Databricks integration/migration.
Comfortable with SaaS/technology environments and distributed teams; strong executive presence and communication skills.