Sr. Technical Program Manager, Data Engineering

Hidden Jobs; United States; Hybrid; USD 124,000 - 255,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Remote-eligible

Job summary

Hidden Jobs seeks a senior Technical Program Manager to lead a multi-quarter data platform modernization portfolio within the data engineering organization. You will drive cross-team execution across streaming ingestion, Hive-to-Iceberg migrations, workflow consolidation, and legacy deprecation, partnering with engineering, finance, and governance stakeholders.

You will build dashboards, track validated savings, risks, and decisions, and report on a large data infrastructure portfolio with

Qualifications

• 5+ years of TPM experience leading complex, cross-functional technical programs in data platforms or data infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of batch/streaming pipelines, table formats, storage layers, and workflow orchestration.
• Proven ability to build dashboards, derive insights, and drive decisions from data.
• Experience partnering with senior engineering and business stakeholders in high-visibility settings.
• Comfort working with ambiguity and changing priorities across multiple workstreams.
• Fluency in workflow design and applying GenAI for prompting, dashboards, and tooling.

Responsibilities

• Lead programs spanning ingestion, migrations to Iceberg, and workflow platform consolidation.
• Coordinate cross-team execution, manage timelines, dependencies, and risks among service owners.
• Develop and maintain program dashboards showing progress, savings, risks, and decisions.
• Own reporting for a large data infrastructure portfolio with DRIs and governance stakeholders.
• Apply GenAI as the default operating model to draft artifacts and surface risks.
• Prototype AI-assisted tools and dashboards with governance and safety-by-design practices.

Skills

TPM experience

Data platforms

Dashboards

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related field

Tools

GenAI tooling

Job description

Role overview

A senior Technical Program Manager role leading a multi-quarter portfolio of data platform modernization programs. The position sits within a data engineering organization and drives cross-team execution across streaming ingestion, table format migrations, workflow consolidation, and legacy deprecation, partnering closely with engineering leads, finance, and governance stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead programs spanning CDC/Kafka/Flink ingestion, Hive-to-Iceberg table format migrations, workflow platform consolidation, and legacy system retirement.
• Drive cross-team execution across many producer and consumer teams, managing timelines, dependencies, and risks among service owners.
• Build and maintain program dashboards that give engineering and platforms leadership a current view of progress, validated savings, risks, and decisions.
• Own reporting and tracking for a large data infrastructure efficiency portfolio, coordinating with team-level DRIs and partner finance and governance stakeholders.
• Use GenAI as the default operating model to draft program artifacts, modernize high-toil workflows, synthesize status, and surface risks and escalation paths.
• Prototype AI-assisted tools, dashboards, and process helpers using AI coding assistants, while following AI governance and safety-by-design practices.

Requirements

• 5+ years of TPM experience leading complex, cross-functional technical programs, ideally within large-scale data platforms, streaming systems, or data infrastructure modernization.
• Solid understanding of batch/streaming pipelines, table formats, storage layers, and workflow orchestrators, and the tradeoffs involved in modernizing them.
• Strong analytical skills, with experience building dashboards, interpreting data, and using insights to drive decisions and validate savings.
• Track record of partnering with senior engineering and business stakeholders in high-visibility settings.
• Comfort with ambiguity and shifting priorities across a fast-moving, multi-workstream roadmap.
• Workflow design and AI fluency: turning repeatable program work into durable mechanisms using GenAI for prompting, dashboards, analysis, and lightweight tooling.

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with data platforms, streaming systems (Kafka, Flink), or open table formats such as Iceberg.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent experience.

Benefits and work setup

• Remote-eligible across the country with in-person collaboration expected roughly 1–2 times every six months; US-based applicants only, with eligibility for equity and a published base salary range of $123,684–$254,644.