Databricks Azure Technical Program Manager

Job Title: Databricks Azure Technical Program Manager

Location: Raritan, NJ (Hybrid)

Duration: Long Term Contract

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Technical Program Manager TPM to lead largescale enterprise data lake migration programs from Azure Databricks to AWS Databricks The ideal candidate will have strong experience managing complex cloud transformation initiatives coordinating global teams driving execution across multiple workstreams and ensuring successful delivery with minimal business disruption

The TPM will be accountable for endtoend program governance planning risk management stakeholder communication and delivery of multiple data lake migration tracks

Key Responsibilities

• Lead endtoend migration of enterprise data lakes from Azure to AWS Databricks
• Manage multiple workstreams including
• Data Engineering
• Data Migration
• Platform Engineering
• Testing Validation
• Security Compliance
• Business Readiness
• Develop and maintain integrated program plans milestones dependencies and release schedules
• Coordinate global onsite offshore and nearshore teams
• Drive governance forums steering committee meetings and executive status reporting
• Manage program scope budget risks issues assumptions and dependencies
• Ensure successful migration of
• Databricks Workspaces
• Delta Lake assets
• Unity Catalog
• ADF Pipelines
• Notebooks and Jobs
• Data Products
• Reporting and Analytics workloads
• Work closely with AWS Databricks Infrastructure Security and Business stakeholders
• Establish migration playbooks cutover plans rollback strategies and hypercare support models
• Ensure compliance with enterprise architecture security ISRM and regulatory requirements
• Drive Agile delivery practices and CICD adoption

Required Skills Experience

• Program Management
• 12 to 18 years of IT experience with 5 years managing large transformation programs
• Proven experience managing programs involving 50 resources and multiple vendors
• Strong expertise in Agile Scrum Waterfall and Hybrid delivery models
• Experience managing multimilliondollar transformation initiatives
• Technical Expertise
• Strong understanding of
• Azure Databricks
• AWS Databricks
• Delta Lake
• Unity Catalog
• Medallion Architecture
• Data Lakehouse concepts
• Data Governance
• Knowledge of
• Azure Data Factory ADF
• AWS Glue
• AWS S3
• Redshift
• Airflow
• Terraform
• CICD pipelines
• Migration Experience
• Cloudtocloud migration experience Azure AWS preferred
• Data warehousedata lake modernization experience
• Largescale platform migration rehosting replatforming and modernization programs
• Experience handling cutover planning and production golive management

Leadership Expectations

• Exceptional stakeholder management and executive communication skills
• Ability to influence senior leadership and business sponsors
• Strong problemsolving and conflictresolution abilities
• Proven success in managing geographically distributed teams
• Selfdriven highly motivated leader with strong ownership mindset

Preferred Qualifications

• Databricks Certification
• AWS Certification
• PMP PgMP Certification
• SAFe Agilist Certification
• Experience in Healthcare Life Sciences Consumer Products or Supply Chain domains
• Success Metrics
• Ontime migration delivery
• Zero critical production incidents during cutover
• Successful business signoff
• Data reconciliation accuracy 999
• Minimal downtime during migration
• Budget and schedule adherence
• Stakeholder satisfaction
• This role is ideal for a seasoned program leader capable of orchestrating largescale enterprise data lake migrations across multiple platforms teams and geographies while ensuring

Skills

Mandatory Skills : Program Architecture