VP, Program Manager - Cloud Data Platform Delivery | Consultant (Remote)

Lead a large-scale AWS cloud data transformation spanning enterprise data lakes, data warehouses, and cross-functional delivery teams., Position Summary: This consulting role will lead program management for a complex, multi-workstream initiative to migrate and modernize enterprise data lake and data warehouse capabilities on AWS. The ideal candidate brings hands-on familiarity with cloud data platforms, strong delivery leadership, and experience operating in financial services or another highly regulated environment.

• Initial Term: 12 months, with potential to extend to 18+ months
• Engagement Type: Contract-C2C or W-2 hourly
• Expected Commitment: 40 hours per week, Monday-Friday
• Work Model: Primarily remote, with travel as needed for client meetings, workshops, and planning sessions in Stamford, New York City, or Atlanta, We are seeking an experienced Program Management leader to drive a large, cross-functional cloud data transformation. This role will oversee planning, execution, dependency management, governance, and stakeholder alignment across multiple workstreams. The right candidate must understand cloud data delivery in depth-not just cloud infrastructure or traditional data programs-and be comfortable coordinating business, technology, architecture, engineering, governance, and delivery teams through a complex modernization effort.

Core technology environment includes: Cloudera/Hadoop, Spark, Oracle, AWS Redshift, EMR, S3, Glue, SageMaker, SAS, ETL tools, and Collibra.Core technology environment includes: Cloudera/Hadoop, Spark, Oracle, AWS Redshift, EMR, S3, Glue, SageMaker, SAS, ETL tools, and Collibra.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end program delivery for a complex AWS cloud data transformation across multiple workstreams and stakeholder groups.
• Manage program planning, execution, dependencies, risks, issues, milestones, and executive reporting.
• Coordinate delivery across data engineering, architecture, platform, governance, analytics, business, and vendor teams.
• Partner with technical leads to align legacy platforms, cloud services, data pipelines, governance tools, and reporting needs.
• Run program ceremonies, delivery tracking, escalations, and governance within a SAFe Agile environment using JIRA.
• Facilitate workshops, planning sessions, and stakeholder reviews with distributed teams and senior leaders.
• Ensure delivery meets expectations for financial services or other highly regulated environments.

• Strong program management experience delivering large-scale, cross-functional technology programs.
• Demonstrated experience with cloud data initiatives, including data lakes, data warehouses, data migration, modernization, and enterprise data platform delivery.
• Working knowledge of AWS cloud data services such as Redshift, EMR, S3, Glue, and SageMaker.
• Familiarity with legacy and modern data technologies including Cloudera/Hadoop, Spark, Oracle, SAS, ETL platforms, and data governance tools such as Collibra.
• Experience operating in Agile delivery environments, preferably Scaled Agile Framework, with hands-on use of JIRA for planning and execution tracking.
• Ability to manage complexity across multiple workstreams, dependencies, teams, vendors, and stakeholders.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, stakeholder management, and executive reporting skills., * Prior experience in financial services.
• Experience working in a highly regulated environment with strong governance, controls, compliance, and audit expectations.
• Experience leading data platform modernization or migration programs from on-premises environments to AWS.
• Understanding of enterprise data governance, metadata management, data lineage, and data quality practices.