Program Manager

Client is building programme to deliver data products on the enterprise data platform (EDP). We are looking for a Programme Manager to coordinate the groups delivering it. You will have experience delivering programmes of work and coordinating across teams. You will use that to make sure handoffs happen, decisions are made and written down, and work reaches production.

What project we have for you

Our client is an independent, active global asset manager. They are executing a firm-wide data strategy to govern, manage and engineer data as a product across more than 70 business-owned sub-domains.

As part of this, they are migrating to Databricks as the foundational layer of their Enterprise Data Platform, adopting a lakehouse architecture built on open formats, declarative pipelines and Unity Catalog.

Program runs across several groups, with work spread across domains. Client delivers quickly, but work often stalls before production, because no one has the time or mandate to fix the blockers between teams.

The Programme Director is the first of three dedicated roles to close that gap, alongside a Product Owner and a Principal Engineer. You will work to a public mandate from the CTO, with authority over timescales, handoffs and cross-team decisions.

What you will do

Key responsibilities

Coordinate between the groups. Agree dependencies, priorities and handoffs, with a named owner at each step.

Make and close decisions. Bring the right people together, record each decision with its owner, and publish a decision log.

Agree a programme charter. Set Atlas's goals, decision rights and forums, alongside the platform charter.

Own the plan and run the cadence. Hold one plan with timescales, milestones and dependencies. Review it in forums where owners are accountable for progress.

Communicate across the programme. Run one channel for what was agreed and what changed, so no one has to ask twice.

Set the cadence for the Product Owner and Principal Engineer.

What you need for this

Requirements

• Experience on data platform or data engineering programmes, ideally Databricks
• Experience coordinating onshore and offshore teams
• Familiarity with agile delivery, including work-in-progress limits and regular show-and-tell sessions
• Experience setting up programme governance from scratch, such as charters, decision rights and forums
• Publish the programme charter
• Give every cross-group dependency and handoff an owner
• Log decisions with an owner
• Hit the milestones on the published plan

Nice to have skills

Interest in how AI agents are used in software delivery