Data Technical Program Manager

Data Technical Program Manager (TPM)

Location: Manila, Philippines (Customer Office)

Role Description & Requirements

We are seeking a Data Technical Program Manager (TPM) to oversee the design, implementation, and overall governance of an AI-Ready Data Platform and enterprise-wide data migration for a major telecommunications customer. This role demands a blend of program management expertise and deep technical knowledge of data architecture and engineering, cloud-native architectures, and data governance frameworks on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Responsibilities

• Program Governance & Execution: Lead the execution and delivery assurance of complex, multi-workstream data programs. Maintain the program schedule, manage risk/issue registers, and provide regular weekly Project Status Reports to steering committees.
• Stakeholder Management: Act as the primary liaison between Google Professional Services, channel partners, and the customer's project manager and technical SMEs. Help manage customer-side dependencies, including landing zone readiness and secure data extraction.
• Data Architecture & Implementation Coordination: Partner with customer engineering leads and Google technical teams to oversee the deployment of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Terraform modules for GCP data services, including Apache Iceberg on GCS, Dataproc Serverless, Cloud Composer, Looker, and Analytics Hub.
• Technical Workshop Facilitation: Lead joint technical workshops to define Data Mesh topologies, data product taxonomies, metadata harvesting strategies, and semantic layer integration with enterprise catalogs (e.g., Knowledge Catalog, Datahub, Dataplex).
• Validation & Handover: Manage the validation and deployment of blueprint data pipelines (such as IPDR demand trend analysis) from raw ingestion via Apache NiFi to GCS and BigQuery to ensure the target-state environment is fully operational and enabled with BigQuery ML.
• Cross-Technology Alignment: Facilitate cross-technology alignment for remote delivery teams across adjacent domains, e.g., Infrastructure, Data, Security, etc.

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience: 10+ years of experience managing complex data transformation programs, with at least 3–5 years specifically dedicated to large-scale data migrations on GCP.
• Technical Domain Expertise: Strong working knowledge of cloud-native data architectures, data pipelines (batch/streaming), and cloud analytics services (e.g., BigQuery, Dataplex, Dataproc, Cloud Composer).
• Location Requirement: Ability to work on-site at the customer office in Manila, Philippines, on all weekdays as required by the project.

Preferred Qualifications

• Telco Industry Knowledge: Proven experience delivering data programs in the telecommunications sector, with exposure to high-volume telemetry datasets (e.g., IP Detail Records) and integration with ingestion open-source tools like Apache NiFi or Kafka.
• Advanced Data Paradigms: Strong conceptual and technical understanding of domain-driven Data Mesh architectures, Data Contracts, lakehouse storage formats (specifically Apache Iceberg), and federated computational governance.
• DevOps & Cloud Security: Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Terraform deployments and enterprise security frameworks, including VPC-SC, IAM policy-driven access models, and data masking tools.
• Education: Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.