Technical Program Manager- GCP

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Role: Technical Program Manager - GCP Location: Cape Town, SA Experience: 10+ years

Responsibilities

• Managing customer communication, relationships, and escalation management.
• Guide the client on technology evaluation, technical thought leadership, and direction for complex Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) and cloud migration projects.
• Constantly sync with the product and business team to align on business priorities and plan for long-term and short-term architecture goals.
• Showcase thought leadership on GCP migration roadmaps, agile development methodologies, and best practices.
• Challenge and inspire customers and peers to solve difficult problems with ambitious and novel solutions.
• Own the complete project lifecycle by managing the solutioning, engineering, testing, release, and maintenance.
• Lead large-scale data engagements featuring multiple work-streams, with a focus on Teradata to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) migrations.
• Guide and help team members to debug and solve technical problems.
• Project deliverables reviews and follow-through until issues closure, including conflict resolution and dependency management.
• Work with the team to identify and qualify business opportunities.
• Identify key customer technical objections—specifically regarding BigQuery performance or migration blockers—and develop strategies to resolve them.
• Ensure proper skill development of team members.
• Travel to customer sites, conferences, and other related events as required.

Requirements

• Excellent client communication, analytical, and presentation skills.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision in a dynamic and time-sensitive work environment.
• Experience to manage a midsize team (40-50) is a must.
• Experienced in managing mid-to-large size data and cloud engagements, with specialized experience in BigQuery and EDW migration projects (Teradata preferred).
• Ability to discuss data management, data governance, and data integration related issues and provide a point of view.
• Problem-solving mindset and ability to guide the team to resolve project issues.
• Good grasp of risk management, scope management, and project profitability.

Nice to Have Skills

• Hands-on design and solutioning experience using GCP BigQuery, Dataflow, and Composer.
• Understanding of the latest trends in data management, cloud storage, and hybrid cloud architecture.
• Good understanding of application data security and infrastructure security.
• Experience and knowledge of critical phases of the sales process (RFP/RFI), including solution scoping and proposal building for data migrations.
• Knowledge and willingness to learn and apply emerging trends in cloud, Open AI, data science, and Artificial Intelligence.