Head of Data Platform Product & Program Management

Position Summary

Head of Platform Product & Program Management – Chief Architect of the Sovereign Platform Roadmap for Scientific Games’ Data & AI Platform and Infrastructure team.

• Define, prioritize, and evolve the Data & AI Platform product strategy.
• Lead and maintain the definitive Platform Roadmap, ensuring alignment with commercial data product ambitions.
• Translate commercial data product requirements into platform capabilities, coordinating with Product Owners and technical teams.
• Oversee agile processes (sprint planning, stand‑ups, backlog grooming) for the Platform and Data Science organizations.
• Manage a high‑performing Program Management team to deliver platform work streams across hubs.
• Track and report platform velocity, sprint health, and lead time to value.
• Design and optimize the semantic layer, self‑service reporting tools, and self‑service tooling to enable analysts and non‑technical users.
• Ensure production stability, reliability, and quality of platform components for real‑time ML products.
• Serve as the primary technical diplomat, integrating the Sovereign Platform with the broader Scientific Games ecosystem.

• 10+ years of experience in Technical Product or Program Management, owning roadmaps for large‑scale Data or Cloud platforms.
• Proven ability to translate complex business goals into multi‑year technical roadmaps that drive engineering success.
• Deep expertise in managing global, distributed engineering teams using agile practices.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, especially between extraction, platform, and application teams.
• Architectural intuition around the Databricks/Lakehouse ecosystem, Medallion Architecture, and enterprise data platform design.
• Mastery of MLOps, unity catalog management, and medallion lifecycle automation.
• Master’s degree (preferred) in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.

The employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, bend, use hands, operate a computer, and have specific vision abilities to include close and distance vision.

Scientific Games, LLC and its affiliates (collectively, “SG”) are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against applicants based on race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, or disability. For more information about your equal employment opportunity rights, view the EEOC Poster.