Data Products Program Lead (Contract to Hire)

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- This role is not eligible for employer-sponsored work authorization now or in the future. Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a permanent and ongoing basis without the need for future sponsorship (i.e., H1B, STEM OPT extensions, TN, etc.)
- This position requires full-time onsite work (5 days per week) in Victor, NY and is not eligible for relocation assistance

Job Summary:
Leads delivery of the EDU program's data products from definition through release and consumer adoption. A majority-technical role with a program-management skill set: the holder must be able to read and challenge a data model, a semantic definition or a pipeline design, and must also run an integrated plan, a risk register and a steering-group pack to Global PMO standard.
Breaks the program's quarterly milestones into executable releases, convenes domain SMEs and system SMEs per project, and makes sure each product is released with a named owner, named consumers and defined DATSIS. Builds the evidence base (ways of working, intake, standards, council decisions, adoption metrics) on which the operating-model decision will be taken before month 18.

Experience:

- 8+ years in program or technical program management, with at least 3 years leading enterprise data, MDM or data-platform programs.
- Has stood up a data product or data governance program from the start at least once: defined the products, the ownership model, the intake and the release process, and delivered them.
- Demonstrated delivery of large, cross-functional initiatives with hard dependencies on other programs and on IT platform work.
- Experience transitioning or consolidating master and transactional data between systems (for example CRM or ERP migrations, MDM implementations, registry builds).
- Worked directly with data architects and system architects on logical and semantic design, and with data science teams consuming the output.
- Experience driving organizational adoption of new data products or operating models, including readiness and communication planning.
- Track record of setting, measuring and reporting program KPIs under a corporate PMO framework.
- Medical device, life sciences or regulated-industry experience, and exposure to product data and customer data domains, are a plus.

Education:

- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Management, Business or a related discipline; a graduate degree in a quantitative or data discipline is a plus.
- PMP, PgMP, Agile or Scrum certification is a plus.
- Hands-on familiarity with a cloud data platform (Snowflake), an MDM tool (Informatica, CDM) and a governance or catalogue tool (Collibra) is a plus.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

- Working knowledge of the enterprise data lifecycle: transaction layer, master data and identity registries, data integration and pipelines, physical, logical and semantic layers, data catalogues.
- Able to read, build on and challenge a data model, a semantic definition and a dataset; comfortable in SQL against a cloud data platform.
- Understands what makes a data product governed and certified: named ownership, defined consumers, DATSIS, lineage, quality thresholds, release versioning.
- Program discipline to Global PMO standard: integrated planning, dependency management, risk and issue management, KPI definition and reporting, recovery planning.
- Strong facilitation and workshop leadership across business domains and IT; able to drive a decision in a room of VPs with competing priorities.
- Stakeholder management and influence across a complex, multinational matrix without positional authority.
- Strategic thinking: connects each release to the layered architecture and to the enterprise outcomes the program exists for.
- Business and execution mindset: anticipates obstacles, brings proposals, and shifts focus as priorities change.
- Clear, concise written and verbal communication for executive and technical audiences.
- Independent self-starter who manages multiple priorities with minimal supervision.
- Team player who lives CVI's values: Dedicated, Innovative, Friendly, Partner and Does the Right Thing; complies with company policies and procedures.

Work Environment:

- Normal office or remote office environment; extended periods working at a computer.
- Sedentary to light physical effort necessary to perform the job.
- Extensive contact with employees across business domains, IT, regional data and BI leads, and external partners (assessment facilitator, analyst firms, platform vendors).

For U.S. locations that require disclosure of compensation, the starting base pay for this role in Victor, NY is between $121,223 and $161,630 per year and may include cost of living adjustments. For San Ramon, CA the salary range is $151,529 and $202,038. The actual base pay includes many factors and is subject to change and modification in the future. This position may also be eligible for other types of compensation and benefits.

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