Technical Program Architect (Snowflake Migration)- R01562489

Primary Skills

• ETL Fundamentals, Zero Copy Cloning, SQL, SnowSight, SQL (Basic + Advanced), Python, Data Warehousing, Snowflake Data Exchange, Time Travel and Fail Safe, Snowpipe, SnowSQL, Modern Data Platform Fundamentals, Data Modelling Fundamentals, PLSQL, T-SQL, Stored Procedures

Job requirements

• Job Title

  Technical Program Manager – Snowflake Migration (BFSI Data Platform Modernization)

  Role Summary

  We are seeking an experienced Technical Program Manager to lead large-scale enterprise data platform modernization and Snowflake migration programs for clients in the Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance (BFSI) sector.

  This role requires a strong combination of program leadership, technical understanding of modern data platforms, and stakeholder management across client and delivery teams. The ideal candidate will oversee end-to-end migration initiatives—from strategy and design through implementation and stabilization—while ensuring alignment with business goals, regulatory requirements, and enterprise architecture standards.

  The Technical Program Director will act as the central leader across multiple teams, driving execution, managing dependencies, ensuring delivery quality, and maintaining strong engagement with senior client stakeholders.

  Key Responsibilities

  Program Leadership & Delivery Oversight

  • Lead end-to-end Snowflake migration and data platform modernization programs across multiple teams and workstreams.
  • Define and manage the overall program roadmap, delivery milestones, dependencies, and risk mitigation strategies.
  • Ensure successful execution across migration phases including assessment, design, migration, validation, and production stabilization.
  • Establish program governance frameworks, including reporting cadence, escalation paths, and executive updates.

  Stakeholder Management & Client Engagement

  • Serve as the primary interface for senior client stakeholders including CIOs, CDAOs, platform leaders, and business sponsors.
  • Facilitate design alignment and decision-making across architecture, engineering, security, governance, and business teams.
  • Provide clear program status updates, risk assessments, and mitigation strategies to executive leadership.
  • Build trusted relationships with client leadership and ensure alignment between business priorities and program execution.

  Technical Oversight & Architecture Alignment

  • Ensure migration strategies align with Snowflake architecture best practices and cloud-native design patterns.
  • Collaborate with architects and engineering teams to guide solution design and implementation.
  • Provide oversight on data migration approaches, including:
  • Data ingestion and transformation patterns
  • Data validation and reconciliation
  • Performance optimization and cost governance
  • Ensure integration with enterprise ecosystems including data governance, security, and downstream analytics platforms.

  BFSI Domain Alignment

  • Ensure migration approaches consider financial industry regulatory requirements, data governance policies, and risk controls.
  • Align platform modernization efforts with business capabilities such as risk analytics, regulatory reporting, fraud detection, and financial operations.
  • Provide industry perspective and best practices for enterprise data platform transformation in BFSI environments.

  Program Governance & Risk Management

  • Establish program management frameworks covering:
  • Delivery governance
  • Change management
  • Risk identification and mitigation
  • Resource planning and allocation
  • Manage cross-team dependencies across data engineering, infrastructure, testing, and operations teams.
  • Ensure quality assurance and validation processes are embedded within the migration lifecycle.
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