As a Data Technical Program Manager (TPM), you will lead the governance and delivery assurance of a complex AI-ready data platform and enterprise-wide data migration programme on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for a major telecommunications environment. You will bring together programme management and strong technical understanding of data architecture, engineering, cloud-native platforms, and data governance to coordinate delivery across customer, partner, and technical teams.
What You’ll Do and How You’ll Succeed
Program Governance & Execution
- Lead execution and delivery assurance across complex, multi-workstream data programmes.
- Maintain the programme schedule, manage risk and issue registers, and ensure dependencies and delivery priorities remain visible and actively managed.
- Provide regular weekly Project Status Reports and clear programme updates 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.
- Coordinate customer-side dependencies, including landing zone readiness and secure data extraction, to support programme delivery.
- Maintain effective alignment across business, programme, and technical stakeholders throughout implementation.
Data Architecture & Implementation Coordination
- Partner with customer engineering leads and Google technical teams to oversee implementation of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Terraform modules for GCP data services.
- Coordinate deployment across technologies including Apache Iceberg on GCS, Dataproc Serverless, Cloud Composer, Looker, and Analytics Hub.
- Ensure technical implementation activities remain aligned with programme objectives, dependencies, and delivery requirements.
Technical Workshop Facilitation
- Lead joint technical workshops to define Data Mesh topologies, data product taxonomies, metadata harvesting strategies, and semantic layer integration.
- Facilitate alignment with enterprise catalogues and platforms including Knowledge Catalog, DataHub, and Dataplex.
Validation & Handover
- Manage validation and deployment of blueprint data pipelines, including use cases such as IPDR demand trend analysis.
- Oversee the data flow from raw ingestion through Apache NiFi to GCS and BigQuery, ensuring the target-state environment is operational and enabled with BigQuery ML.
- Coordinate validation and handover activities to support successful transition of the target-state data platform.
Cross Technology Alignment
- Facilitate cross-technology alignment across remote delivery teams and adjacent domains, including Infrastructure, Data, and Security.
- Ensure dependencies and technical considerations across workstreams are identified and coordinated throughout delivery.
We’d Love to Hear From You If...
Experience
- You have 10+ years of experience managing complex data transformation programmes, including at least 3 to 5 years specifically focused on large-scale data migrations on GCP.
- You have proven experience delivering data programmes involving multiple technical workstreams and stakeholders.
- Telecommunications industry experience is preferred, particularly involving high-volume telemetry datasets such as IP Detail Records.
- A Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field is preferred.
Technical Expertise
- You have strong working knowledge of cloud-native data architectures, batch and streaming data pipelines, and cloud analytics services including BigQuery, Dataplex, Dataproc, and Cloud Composer.
- You understand domain-driven Data Mesh architectures, Data Contracts, lakehouse storage formats, particularly Apache Iceberg, and federated computational governance.
- You have experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and enterprise cloud security frameworks, including VPC-SC, IAM policy-driven access models, and data masking tools.
- Experience with high-volume data ingestion using open-source technologies such as Apache NiFi or Kafka is preferred.
- You can work effectively across GCP data and analytics technologies including GCS, BigQuery, BigQuery ML, Looker, Analytics Hub, and enterprise catalogue environments.
Ways of Working
- You can operate effectively between programme governance and complex technical delivery, translating technical dependencies, risks, and progress into clear programme actions.
- You are confident facilitating technical workshops and coordinating customer engineering teams, technical SMEs, partners, and remote delivery teams.
- You can maintain alignment across Infrastructure, Data, Security, and other adjacent technology domains while managing multiple programme dependencies.
Assignment Details
- Location: Taguig, Metro Manila, Philippines
- Work Setup: Hybrid
- Contract Duration: 12 months