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VDart Inc is the leading global provider of digital solutions, products and talent management company providing digital technology solutions in Automotive, Manufacturing, Energy & Utilities and Healthcare Industries. Led by a strong global team located across 10 countries including USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, UK, Japan, Australia & India. We are currently accepting applications from staffing firms for our Preferred Partner Program, where we align niche staffing firms with specific verticals based on their strengths. To apply, please visit: https://www.vdart.com/suppliers/ Role: Technical Program Manager with (Data science / Data Platform) Plano, TX Contract Role Description
- Senior level T/PgM to work on specific Program within Data Works portfolio.
- Understand project requirements, drive scope discussions, prioritization with alignment of project priorities with program level goals
- Create project plans, partner with product managers/ BSAs and Engineers to effort estimations, dependencies
- Own and drive Backlog grooming, Sprint planning and stand up meetings for global teams ( US and India). Hold team members accountable and ensure timely delivery Communication: Prepare and send regular sprint updates and program updates to identified audience
- Proactively identify assumptions, dependencies, issues and risks. Drive discussions across the team to develop mitigation plan and implement
- Help the extended team(s) be effective by providing insights, plans, and processes to execute highly cross-functional projects at scale.
- Must have the ability and experience to start a brand new project and drive end to end delivery.
- In addition, the candidate should have the ability take project midstream and ensure successful delivery
- Must have experience in the key 3 to 4 data management domains, e.g. master data management, reference data, data warehousing, BI & Analytics, ETL and API development, metadata management, data security, reporting & analytics, data quality & analysis, etc.
- Hands on day to day program/project mgmt and ability to make progress in highly ambiguous problem space are musts.
- Excellent understanding of tech stack for data management and business intelligence
- Work with Product and engineering teams to create & manage implementation plans including dependency mapping across multiple teams
- Manage multiple interdependent projects of moderate to high complexity and scope. Manage all aspects of program deliverables
- Lead planning for Agile Sprints and manage scrum teams for agile delivery
- Play a key role in improving operational efficiencies through system automation and process improvements.
- 8-10 years of project/product planning & implementation experience related to data management, identity & access management, application data security configuration
- This position requires a strong technical acumen, project management and communication skills.
- 5+ years of relevant industry experience in Data management
- Ability to think strategically and balance a broad range of internal and external factors when identifying problems, proposing solutions, and making decisions.
- Experience communicating across a wide variety of functions (e.g. Engineering, Business, Product Management)
- Proven experience leading day to day activities of multiple scrum teams
- Preferred Qualifications
- 5 years of experience with transactional and analytical data management solutions.
- Data centric skills and focus, e.g. master data management, data analysis, data quality, data integration, data governance, analytics, etc.
- Experience working within software development, information security, database or Internet-related industries, security engineering, privacy engineering
- Strong track record of KPI management and delivery. Comfortable navigating ambiguity.