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

* Facilitate alignment between data engineering teams and downstream consumers (application teams, analytics, BI, marketing operations) to ensure pipeline continuity through platform transitions

* Support data governance and lineage documentation efforts to improve discoverability, quality, and reliability of data assets across the organization

Skills and

Qualifications:

* 8+ years of TPM experience in a scaled technology organization, with a track record of managing concurrent programs spanning multiple engineering teams, product lines, and organizational boundaries simultaneously

* Background in product-driven SaaS or subscription businesses where data infrastructure directly supports revenue-generating product lines

* Demonstrated ability to manage programs with significant discovered scope - where initial estimates expand as dependency mapping uncovers technical complexity across multiple consuming teams

* Strong stakeholder management skills in shared-infrastructure contexts, where multiple product teams have competing timelines and priorities against the same platform dependencies

* Comfortable building and adapting program management workflows using low-code/no-code platforms (e.g., Airtable) - including project tracking, reporting templates, and cross-team dashboards

* BS/BA degree required, preferably in computer science or technical disciplines

Data Engineering Requirements:

* 3+ years managing data engineering programs - with demonstrated experience planning and executing complex, multi-phase data migrations including scope definition, dependency mapping, phased cutover, validation, and post-migration stabilization

* Strong understanding of distributed systems and modern data architectures (data lakes, warehouses, pipelines); familiarity with big data infrastructure such as Hadoop/Cloudera, Impala, Spark, or Postgres

* Experience managing cross-team dependencies between data engineering and…