Program Manager

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.

• 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.