Technical Program Manager

Incedo Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Incedo Inc. seeks a hands-on Technical Program Manager (TPM) based in New York to architect and deliver cutting-edge data and AI solutions. This role involves building high-performance pipelines using AWS Glue, Python, and PySpark, while guiding a sharp engineering team.

The ideal candidate will have 13+ years of experience in data engineering, including leading technical teams, and be proficient in AWS data services, ETL/ELT design patterns, and modern AI technologies.

Qualifications

• 13+ years in data engineering, 4+ years leading technical teams.
• Hands-on expertise across AWS Data services & AI.
• Experience in data lake architecture and ETL/ELT design patterns.

Responsibilities

• Set standards and patterns for data future.
• Build high-performance ETL/ELT pipelines using AWS Glue.
• Champion testing and data quality.

Skills

AWS Glue

Python

PySpark

Data engineering

ETL/ELT pipelines

AI/ML operationalization

Terraform

Tools

Lambda

Athena

S3

Job description

Incedo Inc. is a high-growth Digital, Data, and AI Transformation Specialist firm headquartered in New Jersey. We are a long-term strategy execution partner for Fortune 500 enterprises, operating at the intersection of business and technology. We serve clients across 5 key industries - Banking & Payments, Wealth Management, Telecom, Hi-Tech, and Life Sciences.

Incedo delivers ROI from AI @ Scale by leveraging the ‘Power of 3’:

• Deep domain expertise: Deep understanding of industries with an ability to identify and solve specific business problems.
• AI & Data: Integration of Data and AI capabilities with business priorities to deliver impact and ROI
• Engineering & Operations: Excellence for building digital platforms, driving modernization, integration and tech operations.

Core principles that define the DNA of Incedo are:

• Business outcome focus: Drive measurable business outcomes by developing a client-first view prioritized against quantifiable business KPI-driven programs.
• Business and technology intersection: Bring together deep domain, AI, data, and engineering capabilities.
• Build for the long-term: Enable sustained growth by building long-term client relationships with Fortune 500 companies and senior client stakeholders.
• Integrated platform and services: Provide a comprehensive offering of payables IncedoPay platform and Incedo Lighthouse™ solving specific business problems.
• Cross-functional ‘one’ team: Align multidisciplinary teams including domain, design, data, engineering, and business operations to work towards a collective goal.

With a team of 4,500+ professionals, we have offices across the U.S., Mexico, Canada, and India.

Role

We’re looking for a hands‑on TPM who lives and breathes AWS data engineering and modern AI. You’ll architect, design, and deliver cutting‑edge data + AI solutions while guiding a sharp team of engineers. If Glue jobs, PySpark magic, serverless wizardry, Python scripts and AI/ML operationalization excite you—you’ll feel right at home.

What You’ll Own & Lead:

• Set the standards, patterns, and roadmaps that shape our data future.
• Hands‑on Engineering
• Build high‑performance ETL/ELT pipelines using AWS Glue, Python, and PySpark.
• Craft serverless data services with Lambda, API Gateway & Step Functions.
• Tune Athena, optimize S3 layouts, and lead complex data migrations like a pro.
• AI/ML Enablement
• Bring AI into real products: RAG pipelines, embeddings, inference endpoints, and more.
• Partner with Data Scientists & ML Engineers to operationalize models with MLOps best practices.
• Quality, Security & Reliability
• Champion testing, data quality, observability, and lineage.
• Enforce security‑by‑design with IAM, KMS, VPC endpoints, masking, and tokenization.
• Mentor engineers, lead sprints, and elevate the team’s technical bar.
• Work closely with Product, Security, and Architecture to turn ideas into reality.

What we are looking for

• 13+ years in data engineering/backend engineering, including 4+ years leading technical teams and driving architecture decisions.
• Deep, hands‑on expertise across AWS Data services & AI:
• AWS Glue (Jobs, Crawlers, PySpark), Lambda (Python), Athena, S3, Glue Data Catalog § Python for data engineering (PySpark) and service development
• ETL/ELT design patterns, orchestration (Step Functions / Airflow), and dimensional + Lakehouse modeling § Data migration strategies, validation frameworks, and rollback planning
• Data lake architecture: Parquet, partitioning, with familiarity in Iceberg
• IaC with Terraform / AWS CDK and CI/CD pipelines (CodePipeline, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps)
• Hands‑on experience with modern AI technologies and emerging AI tooling