Technical Program Manager

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Seeking a Technical Program Manager to drive business-critical initiatives across multiple teams within several of our technology groups. This role will partner with Product Management and Engineering to translate business value into actionable plans and execute on the delivery of Data Engineering-focused initiatives. This role requires technical understanding, attention to detail, a strong sense ofaccountability and ownership, collaboration, and experience managing cross workstream teams.
Lead multiple, complex technical programs concurrently across multiple engineering teams to launch data platform products and services in a fast-paced and complex environment.Develop strong partnerships with engineering, product management and analytics leaders to drive focus on strategic and tactical program objectives.Build strategic relationships with key engineering and business leaders to ensure program success.Drive teams in planning and executing roadmaps, releases, and work backlogs using agile methodologies.Lead efforts to identify risks, resolve key project blockers, and establish appropriate resolution paths.Fill in gaps across roles and functions as needed, performing as an adaptive problem solver.Develop and execute change management and communication plans and engage with the stakeholders to report progress and raise issues.Create a collaborative work environment that cultivates shared understanding, transparency, mastery, autonomy, innovation and continuous learning.Exhibit a high tolerance for context switching and interruptions while remaining productive and able to provide effective guidance.Basic Qualifications5+ years of experience in technical program management, preferably with a focus on data engineering, data platforms, data governance and/or data analytics.Experience with large-scale organizational change efforts.Experience in building broad, large-scale communications plans on all active initiatives and programs.Love and interest for data while taking chaos and turning it into something actionable.High sense of ownership and focus on building fast with awareness of limitations.Experience in Agile software development with expertise in Scrum methodology and practices.Good understanding of SQL, ETL processing, Data Warehousing, and familiarity with BI Visualization tools such as Looker and Tableau.Working knowledge of modern program management, analysis, tracking, and reporting tools such as Jira/Confluence, Airtable, G-Suite (Google Docs, Sheets, Slides) and MS Office.Knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)Education
BS STEM + 7 years relevant experience or BA/BS + 11 years relevant experienceNo degree, must have 17+ years relevant experience