Job Title: Data Program Manager

LOCATION: Bethesda, MD (Onsite)

NO H1B

DURATION: Contract

Job Description:

• 14  to 18 years of demonstrated hands-on experience in Data Engineering and Technical delivery And Program Management  with experience in managing Data & SnowFlake projects
• Should have strong knowledge and experience in managing the Both T&M and Fixed price project
• Should have experience in managing minimum of 3-5Mn project
• Program management experience in BI reporting, Big Data , Cloud  – Snowflake , Spark/Pyspark, Hadoop, NiFi, Kafka, Airflow : preferred
• Should have worked on Agile/Scrum project and well versed with all scrum practices/ceremonies.
• Scrum certification is added advantage. 
• Should have a good knowledge on Jira usage & dashboard
• Sound Project Management Experience and strong in Planning – Scheduling and Tracking 
• Cost Estimation and managing the budget
• Onsite work experience and managing the stakeholders 
• Experience in multi-vendor project execution 
• Reporting and tracking the project progress. Proactive in identifying and tracking the dependencies
• Good People Management Skills

Responsibilities:

• Planning and tracking the project level effort, budget and cost
• Supporting the offshore team and ensure clear communication channels are established between onsite & offshore
• Reporting senior management periodically on the portfolio updates
• Must have experience of collaborating with the entirely different teams 
• Demonstrating good leadership skills
• Should have very good decision-making skills on various aspects of the project/program
• Foster an environment of high communication, collaboration and accountability
• Work with the customer Business and IT team in identifying the roadmap and circle back the requirements with offshore delivery team
• Work closely with offshore delivery team and anchor the planning, scheduling and coordination with multiple vendors
• Coordinate between Customer and delivery team (Onsite and Offshore) and should be able to track the dependencies with various stakeholders
• Publish periodic reports to all the stakeholders with project health and proactively highlight the dependencies
• Work with technical team , Managers and identify the impediments/risks for the project"