Data Platform Program Manager – GCP Data & AI Delivery

Thakral One; Makati; Hybrid; PHP 2,400,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Thakral One in the Philippines is seeking a Data Technical Program Manager (TPM) to lead governance and delivery assurance for a complex AI-ready data platform and data migration programme on Google Cloud Platform in a telecommunications environment.

You will combine programme management with deep data architecture, engineering, cloud-native platforms, and data governance to coordinate delivery across customer, partner, and technical teams, while driving risk management and stakeholder alignment.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in complex data transformation programmes.
• 3–5 years focusing on large-scale data migrations on GCP.
• Experience delivering data programmes with multiple technical workstreams and stakeholders.
• Telecommunications data experience preferred.
• Masters degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead governance and delivery assurance across multi-workstream data programmes.
• Maintain programme schedule, manage risk and issue registers, ensure dependencies visible.
• Provide weekly status reports to steering committees.
• Act as liaison between Google Professional Services, partners, and customer SMEs.
• Oversee IaC deployment and data services on GCP (Terraform, Iceberg, Dataproc, Looker).
• Facilitate technical workshops for Data Mesh, data product taxonomies, and metadata strategies.
• Coordinate validation and handover of the target-state data platform.

Skills

Programme management

Data governance

Data architecture

Cloud-native platforms

Stakeholder management

Education

Master's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Looker

Dataproc

Dataplex

BigQuery

NiFi

Kafka

Apache Iceberg

GCS

Job description

Thakral One in the Philippines is seeking a Data Technical Program Manager (TPM) to lead governance and delivery assurance for a complex AI-ready data platform and data migration programme on Google Cloud Platform in a telecommunications environment.

You will combine programme management with deep data architecture, engineering, cloud-native platforms, and data governance to coordinate delivery across customer, partner, and technical teams, while driving risk management and stakeholder alignment.