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Staff Program Manager, Data Engineering
General Motors
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Austin • Missouri, Texas • 🇺🇸 United States
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Lead
About the role
- Own end-to-end program execution across a portfolio of 4-6 major initiatives, ensuring timely delivery, quality outcomes, and alignment with business goals.
- Define and manage program scope, timelines, resources, and dependencies, proactively identifying risks and implementing mitigation strategies.
- Drive strategic roadmaps with clear capabilities and priorities, ensuring completeness of product requirements and seamless integration across teams.
- Champion cross-functional collaboration, connecting the dots between engineering, product, legal, marketing, and other stakeholders to ensure cohesive execution.
- Lead change management and governance practices, incorporating best-in-class development workflows, CI/CD, SRE, and DevOps principles.
- Serve as the escalation point for all program-related issues, bottlenecks, and risks – owning resolution and ensuring momentum.
- Ensure data engineering work is accurately reflected in tools like Jira and Align, maintaining transparency and accountability.
- Mentor and guide program team members, fostering a culture of excellence, continuous improvement, and operational efficiency.
- Communicate with clarity and impact, delivering compelling updates and insights through storytelling and data-driven presentations.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in engineering, program management, or technical project/program leadership within complex enterprise environments
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience)
- Demonstrated success leading large-scale, cross-functional programs, ideally in data-centric domains
- Proven ability to drive collaboration across technical and business teams to deliver cohesive, high-impact outcomes
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to diverse audiences
- Effective leadership and mentoring skills, with a track record of fostering innovation, accountability, and team alignment
- Deep understanding of program management methodologies (Agile, hybrid, scaled delivery models) and proficiency with tools such as Jira, Confluence, and Agile planning platforms (e.g., Jira Align)
Benefits
- Company Vehicle: Upon successful completion of a motor vehicle report review, you will be eligible to participate in a company vehicle evaluation program, through which you will be assigned a General Motors vehicle to drive and evaluate. Note: program participants are required to purchase/lease a qualifying GM vehicle every four years unless one of a limited number of exceptions applies.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
program managementchange managementCI/CDSREDevOpsdata engineeringAgilehybrid delivery modelsscaled delivery modelsanalytical skills
Soft skills
leadershipmentoringcollaborationproblem-solvingcommunicationstorytellingcontinuous improvementoperational efficiencyinnovationaccountability
