Technical Program Director – Snowflake Migration, BFSI Data Platform Modernization

Role Overview

• 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

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Azure
• Cloud
• Google Cloud Platform

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Retirement plans
• Flexible work arrangements
• Professional development