Technical Program Manager
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The job in short
Technical program management.
Details
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- 10 d ago · posted 2026-09-14
- Location
- Cincinnati, Ohio
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Job Summary
As a Technical Program Manager, you’ll work with stakeholders across the Data &
Analytics organization and the broader business to drive a large-scale data platform
migration from scoping and planning through completion. This program is
consolidating legacy, ungoverned data environments into a single, modern, well governed
data platform, and spans multiple engineering teams and workstreams
delivered in parallel.
You’ll bring structure and transparency to a program that today runs on top of
engineering leadership’s technical workload. You’ll own the coordination layer end-to end
so technical leaders can stay focused on execution, and you’ll need to provide
diplomatic, timely communication across teams operating in an agile environment with
iterative planning and delivery cycles.
What You’ll Do
• Develop and maintain the program roadmap, drive milestones, identify and
escalate cross-team dependencies, and manage the full program lifecycle
from definition through close.
• Collaborate with multiple engineering and data teams to sequence work, track
delivery against a phased migration plan, and drive execution of the roadmap
across concept, development, and rollout.
• Enable effective communication and transparency between the program
team, stakeholders, and leadership. Consolidate status reporting across
workstreams and synthesize risks, issues, and dependencies, along with
solution recommendations, for executive consumption.
• Organize and maintain a centralized repository of program and project
information, including roadmaps, decisions, and status.
• Hold cross-functional teams accountable through influence. Resolve conflict
through arbitration, negotiation, reasoned discussion, or escalation as
needed.
• Maintain a program-level risk and issue log, proactively identify risks to ontime
delivery, and drive mitigation plans before they affect the broader
program.
• Streamline processes, simplify execution, and track progress against
program goals and success criteria.
Partner closely with:
o Data Product and Engineering leadership to understand upcoming
priorities and sequence workstreams accordingly.
o Engineering teams to understand technical dependencies, architecture
decisions, and delivery constraints that affect the migration timeline.
o Data Governance to align on ownership, lineage, and quality standards
for the newly consolidated platform as legacy systems are retired.
o Analytics team to understand reporting and consumption needs,
ensuring migrated data models support existing dashboards and
downstream analytics without disruption.
• Align with stakeholders across the business on cross-team dependencies,
expectations, and issue resolution as legacy systems are retired and new
data sources come online.
• Develop a working understanding of the software development lifecycle used
by the data engineering teams, including the ability to proactively manage and
mitigate risks to on-time delivery, define cut-over plans, and support teams in
applying consistent agile practices.
• Lead change management efforts across affected teams, ensuring
stakeholders are informed of upcoming schema, process, or workflow
changes as legacy systems are retired and new data sources come online.
What We Need
Education and Experience:
• 4+ years of program or project management experience, including experience
managing complex technical initiatives involving multiple systems, integrations,
or data platforms.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Management, Computer Science,
or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience managing programs delivered by distributed, cross-functional teams
without direct reporting authority.
• Working knowledge of modern data platform concepts (such as cloud data
warehousing and data transformation tools, including dbt), sufficient to engage
credibly with data engineers on scope, dependencies, and architecture.
• Understanding of agile methodologies, metrics, and reporting techniques, with
experience working across multiple teams or workstreams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, and comfort presenting to both
large and small groups, including executive audiences.
• Prior contract or consulting experience delivering a defined, time-boxed program
is strongly preferred.
What You’ll Need to Succeed
Proven ability to build trust and drive alignment across multiple engineering and
business teams without formal authority.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity, including establishing a program’s roadmap,
cadence, and reporting structure from the ground up.
• Strong facilitation skills, able to keep cross-functional meetings focused and
drive decisions to closure rather than just tracking status.
• Ability to engage credibly with engineers on technical scope and risk, then
translate that into clear, business-relevant language for executive audiences.
• A bias toward action and pragmatism, balancing process rigor with the need to
keep delivery moving.
• Track record of earning trust with skeptical or change-resistant stakeholders
during a large-scale system transition or platform migration.
• Strong documentation habits and the discipline to maintain a consistent,
transparent reporting rhythm across a multi-team program.
• A data-driven mindset, with experience defining and tracking KPIs or OKRs to
measure program health and progress.
• Excellent problem-solving and critical-thinking skills, with the ability to get ahead
of risks before they affect delivery.
• Resilience and follow-through on a long-running program where priorities and
dependencies shift over time.
• Comfort holding teams accountable to commitments through influence rather
than authority.
Desired Qualifications
• PMP, CSM, SAFe, or equivalent project or agile certification.
• Experience with tools such as Jira, Confluence, Smartsheets, or similar program
and project planning and tracking platforms.
• Prior experience in a data engineering, analytics, or technical product role.
• Experience supporting a legacy system retirement or platform migration
initiative.
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Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Gravity IT Resources is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and applicants. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic. All employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit, and business needs.
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