Senior Technical Program Manager

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