Data IT Project/Program Manager
Synectics APAC
- Data Project Planning & Delivery Management
- Develop and manage comprehensive data delivery plans covering data discovery, profiling, mapping, cleansing, transformation, migration, and testing.
- Track project milestones, deliverables, dependencies, and timelines across internal teams and external vendors.
- Monitor planned versus actual progress and drive corrective actions to address delivery delays.
- Ensure alignment of data activities with overall programme milestones and deployment schedules.
- Data Management & Readiness
- Coordinate data identification, classification, discovery, and profiling activities.
- Ensure data readiness based on completeness, accuracy, consistency, validity, and accessibility.
- Identify data gaps, inconsistencies, duplication, and quality issues and coordinate remediation.
- Maintain data readiness trackers with clear ownership, dependencies, and completion timelines.
- Agile & Scrum Management
- Facilitate daily Scrum meetings, sprint planning, backlog refinement, and delivery reviews.
- Track sprint commitments, work progress, blockers, and dependencies.
- Drive accountability across delivery teams and ensure timely closure of outstanding actions.
- Manage and prioritize data-related activities based on business requirements and programme priorities.
- Stakeholder & Vendor Management
- Coordinate with business stakeholders, data owners, data engineers, integration teams, and third-party vendors.
- Manage cross-functional dependencies and ensure smooth coordination between different workstreams.
- Track vendor deliverables, commitments, risks, and delivery progress.
- Facilitate discussions and resolve delivery-related issues across multiple teams.
- Data Quality, Governance & Reporting
- Monitor data quality, data transformation, migration, and reconciliation activities.
- Establish and track data health metrics, KPIs, and readiness indicators.
- Coordinate the development of BI dashboards and management reports.
- Maintain data governance standards, data ownership, lineage, and audit documentation.
- Ensure data-related risks, issues, defects, and corrective actions are tracked to closure.
- Data Migration & Deployment Readiness
- Coordinate data migration planning, rehearsal, execution, and validation activities.
- Monitor migration volumes, rejected records, processing failures, and reconciliation results.
- Track cutover dependencies, data freezes, validation activities, and go-live readiness.
- Ensure operational handover and post-migration support readiness.
- 6+ years of overall experience in IT Project Management / Program Management.
- Strong experience in Data Transformation, Data Management, and Data Governance.
- Experience in PMO, Product Management, or programme delivery coordination.
- Experience managing data-related activities within technology transformation, ERP, PLM, or system implementation programmes.
- Good understanding of data discovery, profiling, data quality, source-to-target mapping, data migration, transformation, and reconciliation.
- Experience coordinating multiple vendors, business stakeholders, technical teams, and data owners.
- Strong knowledge of Agile methodologies, Scrum ceremonies, sprint planning, and backlog management.
- Experience in project reporting, RAID management, dependency tracking, and stakeholder communication.
- Strong understanding of data governance, data quality controls, and readiness assessments.
- Power BI or equivalent BI and reporting tools.
- Advanced MS Excel and data analysis.
- Jira / Azure DevOps.
- Project planning and data management tools.
- Familiarity with ERP, PLM, and enterprise data transformation programmes.
- Manufacturing industry experience is highly preferred.
- Experience in large-scale enterprise data transformation or migration programmes.
- Exposure to multi-vendor and cross-functional project environments.