Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Vertex Solutions Inc. is seeking a Technical Program Manager to support its Data & Analytics organization. The role will lead a large-scale data platform migration, coordinating engineering teams and workstreams, managing dependencies and risks, and communicating progress to stakeholders and executive leadership.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain the program roadmap, drive milestones, identify and escalate cross-team dependencies, and manage the full program lifecycle from definition through close
- Collaborate with multiple engineering and data teams to sequence work, track delivery against a phased migration plan, and drive execution of the roadmap across concept, development, and rollout
- Enable effective communication and transparency between the program team, stakeholders, and leadership. Consolidate status reporting across workstreams and synthesize risks, issues, and dependencies, along with solution recommendations, for executive consumption
- Organize and maintain a centralized repository of program and project information, including roadmaps, decisions, and status
- Hold cross-functional teams accountable through influence. Resolve conflict through arbitration, negotiation, reasoned discussion, or escalation as needed
- Maintain a program-level risk and issue log, proactively identify risks to ontime delivery, and drive mitigation plans before they affect the broader program
- Streamline processes, simplify execution, and track progress against program goals and success criteria
- Partner closely with Data Product and Engineering leadership to understand upcoming priorities and sequence workstreams accordingly
- Partner closely with Engineering teams to understand technical dependencies, architecture decisions, and delivery constraints that affect the migration timeline
- Partner closely with Data Governance to align on ownership, lineage, and quality standards for the newly consolidated platform as legacy systems are retired
- Partner closely with the Analytics team to understand reporting and consumption needs, ensuring migrated data models support existing dashboards and downstream analytics without disruption
- Align with stakeholders across the business on cross-team dependencies, expectations, and issue resolution as legacy systems are retired and new data sources come online
- Develop a working understanding of the software development lifecycle used by the data engineering teams, including the ability to proactively manage and mitigate risks to on-time delivery, define cut-over plans, and support teams in applying consistent agile practices
- Lead change management efforts across affected teams, ensuring stakeholders are informed of upcoming schema, process, or workflow changes as legacy systems are retired and new data sources come online
Skills
- 4+ years of program or project management experience, including experience managing complex technical initiatives involving multiple systems, integrations, or data platforms
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Management, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Experience managing programs delivered by distributed, cross-functional teams without direct reporting authority
- Working knowledge of modern data platform concepts (such as cloud data warehousing and data transformation tools, including dbt), sufficient to engage credibly with data engineers on scope, dependencies, and architecture
- Understanding of agile methodologies, metrics, and reporting techniques, with experience working across multiple teams or workstreams
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, and comfort presenting to both large and small groups, including executive audiences
- Proven ability to build trust and drive alignment across multiple engineering and business teams without formal authority
- Comfort operating in ambiguity, including establishing a program's roadmap, cadence, and reporting structure from the ground up
- Strong facilitation skills, able to keep cross-functional meetings focused and drive decisions to closure rather than just tracking status
- Ability to engage credibly with engineers on technical scope and risk, then translate that into clear, business-relevant language for executive audiences
- A bias toward action and pragmatism, balancing process rigor with the need to keep delivery moving
- Track record of earning trust with skeptical or change-resistant stakeholders during a large-scale system transition or platform migration
- Strong documentation habits and the discipline to maintain a consistent, transparent reporting rhythm across a multi-team program
- A data-driven mindset, with experience defining and tracking KPIs or OKRs to measure program health and progress
- Excellent problem-solving and critical-thinking skills, with the ability to get ahead of risks before they affect delivery
- Resilience and follow-through on a long-running program where priorities and dependencies shift over time
- Comfort holding teams accountable to commitments through influence rather than authority
- 4+ years of program or project management experience
- Prior experience working directly with data engineering teams/data platforms is required
- Experience managing large, complex projects or programs with multiple workstreams
- Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional communication skills
- Ability to understand technical discussions without being a hands-on developer
- Strong attention to detail, organization, and project/program management discipline
- Demonstrated ability to evaluate dependencies, organizational impact, and tradeoffs
- Comfortable communicating and presenting to executive leadership
- No specific industry background is required
- Prior contract or consulting experience delivering a defined, time-boxed program is strongly preferred
- PMP, CSM, SAFe, or equivalent project or agile certification
- Experience with tools such as Jira, Confluence, Smartsheets, or similar program and project planning and tracking platforms
- Prior experience in a data engineering, analytics, or technical product role
- Experience supporting a legacy system retirement or platform migration initiative
- Bachelor's degree is preferred, but the manager is flexible on education when the candidate has appropriate experience
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