Data Program Manager

❗IMPORTANT: This position is on-site in Valencia, Spain (Carrer de Catarroja, 13, 46940 Manises).

❗We can provide relocation assistance if you're outside of the city or country.

✅ Responsibilities:

✔Key KPI components for the Program Manager Data engineering / BI / Regulations:

• Project Completion;
• Stakeholder Satisfaction;
• Team Performance;
• Program Management.

Consequently, the Program Manager responsibilities consist of 4 following parts:

✔Project Management Responsibilities

• Projects are completed with no delays or reasonable delays are agreed and confirmed in advance with the stakeholders;
• PMO guidelines are strictly followed:
• Necessary project documentation is in place and up to date (Project Brief, Weekly detailed project plan, Requirements, etc);
• All project-related JIRA tasks are in place and up to date - initiatives, epics, bugs
• Weekly reporting is done;
• Necessary project ceremonies and communications are conducted: project kick-off, weekly project sync and demos, project sign-off, handover to operations and closure;
• Escalations, if needed, are done timely and in a proper way;
• Use recommended tools: slack channel, confluence, JIRA, g-mail.
• Control project scope, timeline, resources, risks;
• Control your loading and proactively provide clear and justifiable information on your loading, assignments, plans, and capacity to your manager - ask load more or unload or keep the loading as is;
• Contribute to the corporate improvement/transformation projects when required (tools, processes, reporting, etc).

In addition, we expect our PMO team members to be proactive in suggesting any type of project/process/organizational improvement they can identify themselves with.

✔Stakeholder Satisfaction Responsibilities

• Clearly understand who are your stakeholders for every project and have a list of them;
• Regularly inform the stakeholders through public communication channels (slack, g-mail) about the project progress, project risks, any significant project changes;
• Facilitate decision making;
• Manage stakeholder expectations and gather stakeholder feedback.

✔Team Management Responsibilities

• Control that the team members execute their project management and stakeholder satisfaction responsibilities well;
• Manager should know in details and control the capacity, assignments, loading and plans of subordinates and make sure that the team resources are utilized in an optimal way;
• Provide regular specific feedback to team members and support team members growth;
• Establish knowledge sharing in the team.

✔Program Management Responsibilities

• Lead dev team resource planning for your stream;
• Handle scope changes for the stream;
• Provide reporting for the stream progress;
• Support Delivery Manager in Quarter Planning;
• Be first escalation points for the project issues in the stream;
• Any other ad-hoc tasks/projects may appear on top of the above.

✅ Requirements:

• Working experience in team management/project management/operational excellence or related to those areas,ideally in the software development/technology/data-related industries;
• 5+ years of experience in program or project management, preferably within data engineering, business intelligence (BI), regulations or analytics domains;
• Proven track record managing large-scale data engineering, BI programs or regulation projects involving cross-functional teams, multiple stakeholders, and complex technical deliverables is a plus;
• Experience coordinating with data engineers, data scientists, analysts, and business stakeholders to deliver actionable data solutions  is a plus;
• Experience with data governance, data quality, and compliance initiatives is a plus;
• Proficient in Agile project management frameworks (Scrum, Kanban) and familiar with tools such as JIRA and Confluence;
• Project control and execution;
• Change and stakeholder management;
• Advanced written and spoken English is required.

✅ We offer excellent benefits, including but not limited to:

23 days of paid vacation leave;

Six additional days of undocumented sick leaves;

Medical Insurance;

Birthdays, milestones and employee anniversaries celebrations;

Modern offices with snacks and all the essentials;

Social Club and more than 50 events per year;

Partial coverage of breakfasts and lunches;

Learning and development opportunities and interesting, challenging tasks;

✈ Relocation package (tickets, staying in a hotel for up to 2 weeks, and visa relocation support for our employees and their family members);

Opportunity to develop language skills, with partial compensation for the cost of English;

Competitive remuneration level with annual review;

Teambuilding activities.