Program Manager

Job Description:
We are looking for an experienced Program Manager to own delivery of the Data Hub program end to end. This role is accountable for the hub itself and everything that moves data through it. You will be the single person who can state, at any moment, where every workstream stands, what is at risk, what is blocked, and what is needed from whom.
The program is delivered by teams from multiple parties, including the client organization, systems integrators, and technology and implementation partners, working side by side across workstreams. A large part of this role is making that multi-party delivery behave as one program: consistent planning and reporting across all parties, clear ownership at every handoff, and dependencies between organizations managed as tightly as those inside a single team.

Required

• 10+ years in IT delivery with 5+ years as Program or senior Project Manager accountable for multi-workstream programs and their overall status.
• Demonstrated experience delivering data platform, data warehouse, data lake, or large-scale integration programs, not solely application or infrastructure projects.
• Working knowledge of modern cloud data architecture: ingestion patterns, batch and near-real-time pipelines, lake zones, data quality gates, and API or file-based integration.
• Proven track record managing a large interface or integration portfolio through build, test, and production cutover.
• Rigorous discipline with program plans, dependency registers, RAID logs, and status reporting, plus the ability to keep them genuinely current.
• Strong executive presence: able to present status and bad news to senior stakeholders clearly and hold the line under pressure.
• Proven success running a multi-party program, with teams from the client, systems integrators, and technology or implementation partners delivering together, and the ability to lead through influence rather than reporting lines.
• Experience coordinating across many stakeholder groups: business teams, internal engineering, package or platform program teams, source-system owners, and downstream consumers.
• Hands-on with Jira, Azure DevOps, MS Project or Smartsheet, and Confluence or equivalent; comfortable building reporting from delivery tooling.
• Experience in both Agile and hybrid or stage-gated delivery models, and the judgment to know which each workstream needs.
• Ability to work a hybrid schedule from Cary, NC.

Preferred

• Insurance or financial services experience, with awareness of statutory and regulatory reporting, audit expectations, and financial close constraints.
• Hands-on familiarity with Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory, and ADLS Gen 2, or comparable platforms such as Synapse, Microsoft Fabric, or Snowflake.
• Experience on an ERP modernization or Workday program, including Workday integration patterns (EIB, Core Connectors, Prism) and their delivery constraints.
• Experience running a program that supports multiple business domains in sequence, such as Finance, Actuarial, Investment, Reinsurance, or Risk.
• PMP, PgMP, PRINCE2, SAFe, or Scrum certification.
• Experience managing distributed onshore and offshore teams across multiple vendors and time zones.