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Ansira · 12 hours ago

Technical Program Manager, Data Lake

Missouri, United States

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

8+ years exp

Ansira is consolidating and scaling a unified, enterprise Data Lake to integrate product, media, and business data. The Technical Program Manager will lead this cross-functional program, managing the migration from legacy systems, ensuring data governance and quality, and driving business adoption of self-serve analytics.

AdvertisingAnalyticsData ManagementDatabaseMarketing

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Own the multi-quarter program plan for the unified Data Lake: scope, roadmap, milestones, budgets (OPEX/CAPEX), risks, and dependencies

Stand up and run the operating model: weekly workstream standups, cross-functional syncs, monthly steering committee, and a transparent executive status rhythm

Build and maintain a single-source-of-truth for delivery: program charter, RACI, RAID log, decision log, intake/triage process, and dashboards for progress/risks

Drive the migration plan from legacy pipelines and tools (e.g., Alteryx, Insighter) to the target stack (e.g., Snowflake, Power BI embedded via platform connectors)

Coordinate parallel workstreams (ingestion, modeling, governance, reporting cutover) to hit time-bound deliverables with predictable quality

Define and maintain the Data Lake program backlog, translating business use cases into technical epics, data contracts, and acceptance criteria

Partner with Product and Data Science teams to standardize media and product reporting packages and ensure they’re backed by governed, contract-driven data

Prioritize sources and domains for ingestion based on business value, client impact, and technical feasibility; establish clear go/no-go gates

Align with platform architecture to ensure scalable patterns for batch/stream ELT/CDC, cost control, observability, and reusability across domains

Establish practical data contracts with upstream product and business owners; define schema, SLAs, lineage, and DQ checks at ingestion

Stand up governance ceremonies and roles (data owners, stewards) and implement data catalog/lineage practices to improve discoverability and trust

Define and monitor quality KPIs (completeness, timeliness, accuracy) and drive remediation plans with accountable teams

Ensure data privacy, compliance, and security best practices (e.g., PII handling, role-based access, data masking) across environments

Serve as the connective tissue across Product, Engineering, Data Science, Media, Finance, and Client Partnership — communicating decisions, trade-offs, and timelines

Lead change management for reporting standardization (e.g., Media (AdTech/LBN)-based standard reports), business onboarding to the lake, and client-facing cutovers

Create enablement assets (runbooks, playbooks, onboarding guides) and training plans to accelerate adoption and reduce support burden

Partner effectively with architects and data engineers on Snowflake/BigQuery/Databricks, Azure/AWS/GCP services, orchestration (ADF/Airflow), and transformation (dbt)

Understand ELT/CDC patterns, API/file ingestion, schema design for analytics, and BI tooling (Power BI, Looker). Write and review basic SQL for validation

Apply FinOps and performance/cost optimization practices (storage tiers, compute sizing, job scheduling, caching strategies)

Qualification

Program ManagementData GovernanceCloud Data PlatformsSQLAgile MethodologiesStakeholder ManagementChange ManagementTechnical FluencyData QualityFinOps Practices

Required

8+ years in Program/Project/Product Management, with 5+ years leading complex data platform initiatives in a cloud environment

Proven delivery of cross-functional data programs involving multiple product lines and business stakeholders; strong executive communication

Hands-on experience with modern data stacks: one or more of Snowflake/BigQuery/Databricks; Azure Data Factory/Airflow; dbt; Kafka/Kinesis; Git/Terraform; REST/SFTP integrations

Strong grounding in data governance and quality practices, data contracts, catalog/lineage, and secure data access

Demonstrated expertise in Agile at scale (Scrum/Kanban), Jira/Confluence, dependency/risk management, and budget tracking (including CAPEX/OPEX)

Competent SQL skills for validation/triage; fluency in reading pipeline/log artifacts and interpreting BI/semantic model requirements

Preferred

Background in marketing/media data and standardized performance reporting (e.g., Media (AdTech/LBN), campaign hierarchies, Power BI embedded)

Prior experience migrating from legacy ETL/BI ecosystems (e.g., Alteryx/Insighter/Tableau) to a lakehouse with standardized semantic layers

Experience establishing data domains and productizing data (SLAs, contracts, versioning, lifecycle) to accelerate downstream analytics

Familiarity with privacy, security, and compliance standards (e.g., RBAC/ABAC, PII governance) and enterprise SSO/permissions models for embedded analytics

FinOps mindset: cost observability, unit economics, and right-sizing compute/storage

Company

Ansira

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Ansira is an integrated customer engagement agency, leverages superior marketing intelligence to build deeper, more effective.

Founded in 1919

St Louis, Missouri, USA

1001-5000 employees

http://www.ansira.com

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