Technical Project Manager (TPM) - Data Engineering and Analytics - Contract

Lead the technical delivery, implementation, business change management and adoption of new scalable and reliable data analytics and business intelligence solutions for cross-department leadership and business teams. The TPM should be well versed with business requirements gathering, business stakeholder alignment, managing projects from concept to delivery using hybrid method of Agile and Waterfall, providing stakeholders status reports, and execute on all phases of a project.

Job Title: Technical Project Manager (TPM) - Data Engineering and Analytics
Location: Sunnyvale, CA
Duration: 12 Months

Job Description:
Technical Project Manager with at least 7 years of experience in managing Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse projects and programs

Minimum Required Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree related to Information Systems, Computer Science, Data Science, or Information Resource Management or relevant work experience in BI space
7 years of experience in leading BI projects and programs related to data engineering, data analytics, business intelligence, and data warehouse (On-prem or Cloud)
Must have hands-on experience related to Enterprise Data Warehouse, Snowflake Cloud, Business Intelligence tool sets and data warehouse utilities such as: SQL, Tableau, etc.

Preferred qualifications:
Experience in leading organizational change efforts using data tools and solutions to improve organization efficiency and change management
Prefer TPM who had worked in the role of Business Intelligence/Data Warehouse Solution Architect, Data Engineer, or Technical Business System Analyst before becoming TPM

Required Technical Project Management Skills:
Strong acumen with all Project Management Knowledge areas
Strong understanding of System Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Strong experience delivering projects using hybrid project methods Waterfall and Agile
Proven track record of proactively managing scope, timeline, risks, issues, and escalations
Strong verbal, written and presentation skills (clear, concise, and confident, with audience-appropriate level of detail) across project team and cross functional business stakeholders
The ability to understand technical discussions between teams to identify and remove blockers
Proven track record of project execution – analysis, design, develop, and deliver
Ability to lead with minimal direction and can handle ambiguity
Be a leader and assertive collaborator – not afraid to speak the truth to uncover and remove roadblocks
Team player and collaborator are expected
Technology Platform Skill:
Enterprise Data Warehouse, MDM, MDG, SQL, Snowflake, Tableau reporting experience is required
Smartsheet, Microsoft Project or equivalent tool to manage projects
JIRA
Excel, PowerPoint
Scrum master a big plus

Projects and job description:

We need an experienced BI technical project manager to drive and execute our Enterprise Data Warehouse Cloud Migration project. The scope of this project is to migrate existing EDW data foundation from SQL server and all reports, dashboards, and analytics onto Snowflake Cloud platform.
The other objective of the project is to plan and execute change management so that our large cross functional users base (thousands) is engaged, trained, informed to adopt the system.
As a Technical Program Manager, you will lead and drive the project to architect to build data and analytics - drive quality/consistency of data across business functions. You will use your technical and data analytics experience to facilitate and lead different workstreams within the project. You will work with our Enterprise Analytics portfolio owners, developers, analysts, lead SMEs, and cross functional business stakeholders to migrate EDW data and its reports and analytics to our Snowflake Cloud platform. You will manage the code conversion, data foundation build, and reports and analytics migration efforts. The data objects span across all business functions: finance, sales, marketing, manufacturing operations, supply chain, services, quality, and compliance.
The TPM should be well versed with business requirements gathering, business stakeholder alignment, managing projects from concept to delivery using hybrid method of Agile and Waterfall, providing stakeholders status reports, and execute on all phases of a project. The TPM will also conduct alignment sessions with the business partners, IT counterparts, and Enterprise Analytics internal teams. He/she should be able to work independently with minimum supervision and provide a structured analytical effort to ongoing and new projects.
Manage all aspects of program deliverables from project inception to implementation and resource oversight
Lead the technical delivery, implementation, business change management and adoption of new scalable and reliable data analytics and business intelligence solutions for cross-department leadership and business teams
Ensure that the project is delivered on-time, within scope and within budget
Develop a detailed project plan and timeline to monitor and track project progress on daily and weekly basis
Assist in the definition of project scope and objectives, involving all relevant internal stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility
Track and monitor daily tasks and overall progress for multiple workstreams based on functions
Collaborate, communicate, and drive with business stakeholders and project team in all phases of project
Manage, risks, and escalations at the right time and effectively
Be able to manage and track deliverables assigned to each team member to ensure delivery completeness before exiting each phase gate
Manage changes to the project scope, project schedule using appropriate verification techniques
Ability to work directly with business and technical teams to help solve issues, remove roadblocks, and keep all deliverables and timelines on track
Assist in the documentation of best practices
Measure performance using appropriate project management tools and techniques
Build and support a collaborative relationship with internal matrix partners
At any given time, the TPM should always know overall project health and its current issues, blockers, risks, and mitigations

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