Overview As Data Platform Program Director, you will own the data platform roadmap and partner with senior leaders from Data Engineering, Data Science & Analytics, Marketing, CCO, Fraud, and Technology to translate business needs into technical delivery. You will be the single accountable owner for what to build, why, and ensuring timely delivery, aligned with EPMO standards. You will define success metrics for data quality and platform reliability, manage milestones, risks, and governance, and report progress to cross-functional leadership. You will operate in a fast-paced engineering environment, shaping data platform improvements that unlock measurable business outcomes and scale governance across
Compensation / Benefits- contract role
- competitive compensation
Responsibilities- Own the data platform roadmap and drive business outcomes by gathering requirements from multiple business units and stakeholders
- Translate business needs into technical requirements and define architecture direction for data platform enhancements
- Make tradeoff decisions on scope, timeline, and approach in partnership with leaders
- Define and track success metrics for data quality, platform reliability, and stakeholder satisfaction
- Drive delivery accountability with milestones, risk identification, and blocker escalation
- Facilitate the Data Platform Steering Committee and provide progress updates to cross-functional leadership
- Coordinate across Marketing, CCO, Fraud, Technology, Engineering, Ops, and Data Science to maintain alignment
- Establish program governance practices aligned with EPMO standards
Key requirements- 8+ years in technical program management with emphasis on value delivery through data
- Strong technical fluency in data architecture, ETL/ELT, data warehousing, and platform tradeoffs
- Proven ability to influence without direct authority through clarity and structured accountability
- Experience with or within an EPMO/PMO or similar governance structure
- Track record delivering complex, cross-functional technical initiatives
- Excellent communication translating between technical teams and business stakeholders
- communication
- stakeholder management
- influencing without authority
- data architecture
- ETL/ELT pipelines
- data warehousing
