Global Operations Data Architecture Program Manager

Meta; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 123,000 - 179,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Job summary

Meta is seeking a full-time Data Architecture Program Manager to build and scale the GO data governance and architecture practice. You will translate complex requirements into shared data models, classifications, and cross-system designs, partnering with data science, engineering, and operations to drive decisions at scale.

The role focuses on defining standards, managing schema evolution, and enabling production-grade data products while collaborating with global teams and senior stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of program management or technical program management experience in a data-intensive technical environment.
• Demonstrated experience designing data models, taxonomies, or classification systems adopted across multiple teams or organizations
• Ability to reason about data structures, schemas, pipeline architecture, and system integrations, including translating these concepts across technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience leading schema governance or data standards programs end-to-end, including deprecation planning and migration coordination
• Experience working across global, multicultural teams

Responsibilities

• Define and govern shared operational data models and classification frameworks used across multiple teams and systems
• Establish architectural standards designed to scale beyond any single team or program
• Translate business requirements into data architecture designs, mapping how information should be structured, stored, and integrated to drive informed decision-making and measurable outcomes
• Develop a deep understanding of how data flows between operational systems to identify gaps, inconsistencies, and opportunities for standardization
• Drive cross-functional alignment on shared definitions, integration standards, and field-level agreements between teams where no single team has unilateral authority
• Manage schema evolution and breaking changes across dependent systems, including deprecation planning, coordinating dependent teams through transitions, and stakeholder communication
• Partner with data science and engineering teams to translate architectural decisions into production-grade data products and pipelines
• Design cost attribution and resource modeling that ensures budget and workforce data reconciles end-to-end
• Anticipate future data needs across operational teams and proactively design canonical structures before teams build in isolation
• Set the long-term data architecture strategy for GO, shaping roadmaps across product, engineering, and operations partners
• Enable the development of internal tools and decision systems by defining the data requirements, specifications, and governance frameworks they depend on
• Develop data architecture capability across the broader organization by mentoring program managers and embedding architectural thinking in teams across GO

Skills

Data modeling

Cross-functional leadership

Architectural standards

Executive communication

Data governance

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

SQL

ETL design

Job description

Meta is seeking a full-time Data Architecture Program Manager to build and scale the GO data governance and architecture practice. You will translate complex requirements into shared data models, classifications, and cross-system designs, partnering with data science, engineering, and operations to drive decisions at scale.

The role focuses on defining standards, managing schema evolution, and enabling production-grade data products while collaborating with global teams and senior stakeholders.