Senior Program Manager - Data

Who You Are:

You are a highly motivated Program Manager who can drive delivery in alignment with organizational mandates and goals. You are strong in program and project management practices and possess both business and technical acumen. You support the team to achieve results within the constraints of budget, schedule, and scope. You are a leader, an influencer, a team player, and a collaborator.

What You’ll Do:

• Stakeholder Management: Lead large programs and manage executive expectations.
• Program & Project Planning: Develop integrated project plans, including scope, timelines, budgets, and allocation of resources.
• Team Leadership: Lead project teams, including internal and external partners, ensuring alignment with project goals and objectives.
• Risk Management: Guide and support the team to identify potential project risks and develop mitigation plans to ensure successful project delivery.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Champion strong relationships with clients, vendors, and team members to improve collaboration and project success.
• Communication: Maintain clear and open communication with all stakeholders, providing regular updates and reports.
• Scope Management: Work closely with the business to baseline and monitor project scope; activate change requests as needed.
• Financial Management: Produce cost models, maintain budgets and expenditures, and make necessary adjustments to stay within budget.
• Quality Assurance: Ensure project deliverables meet quality standards and best practices.
• Governance: Maintain project documentation including project plans, status reports, and other artefacts.
• Critical Thinking & Problem Solving: Identify and resolve project issues and obstacles to keep projects on track.

What You’ll Bring:

• Mandatory background and experience in Insurance and Financial sectors, delivering on large-scale Strategic Data Transformation Programs.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• PMP Certification is required.
• 15+ years of experience managing large-scale programs with budgets of $10MM+ and multi-year timelines.
• Proven experience managing and leading Enterprise Data Warehouse and Data Visualization projects from initiation to successful completion.
• Experience leading proposal development including cost estimation, scheduling, and reporting.
• Proven ability to manage scope, dependencies, risks, and mitigation plans.
• Strong client engagement experience ensuring timely delivery within budget and quality standards.
• Experience collaborating with Enterprise Data Architecture teams to ensure compliance with data principles.
• Successfully managed at least 2-3 end-to-end implementations in data warehouse/data lake/data visualization projects, including at least one in the government sector.
• 5+ years of enterprise Data Management experience, preferably in a high-tech or large enterprise environment.
• Proficiency in one or more technologies: SAS, IBM, Informatica, Microsoft, AWS, Qlik, etc.
• Understanding of data collection, correlation, and analysis.
• Deep understanding of project management principles, tools, and best practices.
• Strong leadership and interpersonal skills; able to build rapport with clients, team members, and executives.
• Highly organized and proactive; delivers on business objectives and deadlines.
• Experience managing complex work across cross-functional teams, including leading product data governance initiatives.
• Skilled in defining and enforcing data ownership, quality, and stewardship across critical enterprise data.
• Experienced in supporting senior executives through enterprise data governance decisions.
• Ability to collaborate across business, technology, reporting, product management, change management, and communications teams.
• Excellent interpersonal and executive stakeholder engagement skills.
• Financial proficiency and experience operating under tight governance.
• Experience overseeing multiple projects within a program structure.
• Strong critical thinking, problem-solving, and conflict resolution skills.
• Hands-on experience managing large-scale budgets.
• Proficient in MS Project, Microsoft Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word), Teams, SharePoint.
• Proficient in JIRA and Confluence.
• Strong knowledge of various project management methodologies.
• Ability to coordinate cross-functional teams and vendor partners.
• Strong workshop facilitation and meeting leadership skills.
• Ability to support, influence, and negotiate project decisions using data.