Technical Program Director – Snowflake Migration, BFSI Data Platform Modernization
Brillio
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Edison • New Jersey • United States
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About the role
- Lead end-to-end Snowflake migration and data platform modernization programs across multiple teams and workstreams.
- Define and manage the overall program roadmap, delivery milestones, dependencies, and risk mitigation strategies.
- Ensure successful execution across migration phases including assessment, design, migration, validation, and production stabilization.
- Establish program governance frameworks, including reporting cadence, escalation paths, and executive updates.
- Serve as the primary interface for senior client stakeholders including CIOs, CDAOs, platform leaders, and business sponsors.
- Facilitate design alignment and decision-making across architecture, engineering, security, governance, and business teams.
- Provide clear program status updates, risk assessments, and mitigation strategies to executive leadership.
- Build trusted relationships with client leadership and ensure alignment between business priorities and program execution.
- Ensure migration strategies align with Snowflake architecture best practices and cloud-native design patterns.
- Collaborate with architects and engineering teams to guide solution design and implementation.
- Provide oversight on data migration approaches, including: Data ingestion and transformation patterns, Data validation and reconciliation, Performance optimization and cost governance
- Ensure integration with enterprise ecosystems including data governance, security, and downstream analytics platforms.
- Ensure migration approaches consider financial industry regulatory requirements, data governance policies, and risk controls.
- Align platform modernization efforts with business capabilities such as risk analytics, regulatory reporting, fraud detection, and financial operations.
- Provide industry perspective and best practices for enterprise data platform transformation in BFSI environments.
- Ensure quality assurance and validation processes are embedded within the migration lifecycle.
- Establish program management frameworks covering: Delivery governance, Change management, Risk identification and mitigation, Resource planning and allocation
- Manage cross-team dependencies across data engineering, infrastructure, testing, and operations teams.
Requirements
- 15+ years of experience in data engineering, data platforms, or enterprise data transformation, with 8+ years leading large-scale migration programs (preferably Snowflake)
- Proven ability to lead end-to-end program delivery across multiple workstreams, including roadmap planning, execution, governance, and risk management
- Strong expertise in modern data architectures and cloud platforms (e.g., Microsoft Azure, AWS, GCP)
- Deep knowledge of data migration strategies, including ingestion, transformation, validation, reconciliation, and performance optimization
- Experience working in financial services (BFSI) with understanding of regulatory, data governance, and risk requirements
- Strong stakeholder management and leadership skills, with the ability to engage senior executives (CIO, CDAO) and lead cross-functional teams
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Retirement plans
- Flexible work arrangements
- Professional development
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Hard Skills & Tools
Snowflake migrationdata platform modernizationdata ingestiondata transformationdata validationdata reconciliationperformance optimizationcloud platformsMicrosoft AzureAWS
Soft Skills
stakeholder managementleadershipprogram deliveryrisk managementcommunicationrelationship buildingdecision-makinggovernancecollaborationexecutive engagement