Senior Technical Program Manager, Data

About this job

Truveta is the world's first health provider-led data platform with a vision of saving lives with data, enabling researchers to find cures faster, empowering clinicians, and helping families make informed decisions. As a Senior Technical Program Manager, Data at the newly founded Truveta India Development Center in Hyderabad, you will be the program owner for the Data Platform work carried out in India. This is a senior, hands-off-the-keyboard individual contributor role with real accountability and no direct reports. A normal day involves leading complex, cross-functional programs across data acquisition, processing, quality, governance, platform delivery, and data-product adoption. You will work closely with engineering, product, data science, and business stakeholders, converting ambiguous challenges into clear programs, reading architecture diagrams, managing dependencies, addressing risks, and communicating status to leadership across India and Seattle.

Responsibilities

• Own data platform programs from problem definition and planning through delivery, adoption, and post-launch measurement.
• Build and maintain roadmaps, milestones, dependency maps, risk registers, and decision logs.
• Partner with engineering and data teams on architecture, technical constraints, sequencing, and delivery risk.
• Coordinate data-source onboarding, ingestion, transformation, normalization, enrichment, and validation programs.
• Drive resolution of data-quality issues, operational defects, and recurring pipeline failures with root-cause analysis.
• Coordinate data governance, access control, privacy, security, metadata, lineage, and compliance initiatives.
• Facilitate technical reviews and ensure major decisions and trade-offs are documented clearly.
• Prepare clear written updates and recommendations for engineering and business leadership across India and Seattle.

Requirements

• At least 11 years of professional experience in total.
• At least 7 years in a hands-on individual-contributor technical role.
• At least 4 years in a technical program or project management role owning delivery across engineering teams.
• Experience delivering programs involving data platforms, data pipelines, data governance, analytics infrastructure, or distributed systems.
• Working knowledge of data ingestion, ETL and ELT, batch and streaming pipelines, APIs, databases, cloud platforms, and data quality.
• Ability to read architecture diagrams and hold substantive technical conversations with engineers.
• Strong written communication skills including executive status reporting.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, mathematics, or equivalent practical experience.

Good to have

• SQL or equivalent practical data-querying ability.
• Hands-on background with Kafka, Spark, Flink, Airflow, dbt, Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Databricks, or AWS Glue.
• Experience with data governance, metadata, data lineage, access control, privacy, security, or compliance programs.
• Experience with external data suppliers, healthcare data, financial data, or other regulated datasets.
• Experience managing distributed programs across India and the United States.

Who should apply

This role suits seasoned professionals with extensive technical and program management experience who thrive in ambiguous environments and can influence cross-functional teams without formal authority. Candidates must have a strong foundation in hands-on technical roles combined with years of managing complex data platform programs. Freshers cannot apply as this position requires a minimum of 11 years of total professional experience.

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