Data Engineering Program Director Loc: Stamford, CT Dur : 6 M+ Rate:Open
Job Description:
Dur: 6M+
Rate:Open
INTERNAL NOTES
Role responsibilities:
- Managing and Delivering management/executive updates
- know when to provide updates, mitigate risk and when to escalate
- Able to work with different SMEs and years of experience
- Interface with the business
- Navigate with technology & the business
- Budget & Vendor Management
- Managing Jira: Agile & Scrum
MUST HAVES:
Big Data - delivered projects as program manager - with at least 1-2 big data project - on premises OK (cloud not required)
Must have done one big data engineering implementation or data analytics
Starts:End of January/Feb - through middle/end of July
Data Engineering Program Director
- Key Responsibilities:
- Present monthly updates to key executives on project milestones, plans and Manage Data Strategy Budget
- Manage the Data operations and special projects ticketing boards utilizing Jira
- Identify and participate in process and system enhancements and implementation
- Assist in special projects as needed
Qualifications:
- 10+ years experience in data engineering and analysis, visualization tools and program management
- Good understanding of data, data models, relational databases, and various ETL tools like Informatica.
- Success in managing large projects in the data engineering space
- Highly analytical with the ability to synthesize business situations down to their quantitative essence. Strong attention to detail
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to work cross functionally and present to all layers of management
- Exposure to AWS ecosystem such as Redshift, EMR etc.
- Proficient in Atlassian tools such as Jira, Confluence etc.
- Proficient in Agile Scum and Kanban
- Present monthly updates to key executives on project milestones, plans and Manage Data Strategy Budget