Azure Program Manager

Job Description

Technical Manager to manage Azure Data specific customer projects as a Technical Leader for efficient and effective execution of projects. Technical Manager (TM) will lead customer projects and will provide thought leadership to customers and role where she/he has led the design/implementation of several complex data-oriented solutions on Azure Data Platform with multiple integrations and reporting needs.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Technical Competency

• Demonstrate Thought Leadership in discussions with business partners to ensure delivery of the most effective solutions for the identified business objectives
• Must have worked on several (at least 5 ) projects building solutions for Data Pipelines, Data warehousing, Data Modelling on Azure Data Platform.
• Experience in design and development of Data pipelines and ETL using ADF, Databricks to move data from relational/structured/semi-structured data from source to Data Lake to Data Warehouse, on Azure
• Experience working with Data Lake, Synapse on Azure; Experience in Data Modelling
• Experience with Azure/ SQL Server and extensive experience with SQL programming
• Experience in building scalable high performance reporting solution using Power BI, in both shared and dedicated capacity

Project Management

• Understand customer delivery process and make necessary changes to the delivery process to align with the customer’s process; Conduct regular connects with the customer’s point-of-contact for project feedback/issues/ escalation and establishing a good relationship
• Prepare weekly status reports and review them with Delivery Director/Account Manager
• Participate in all the weekly project status review meetings with the customer; Track & own all the Internal & External Issues and Risks at the project level and bring it up during the Account and Quality reviews
• Own project escalation review meetings and provide necessary inputs to the account team for speedy closure of the escalation
• Manage the defined project Gross Margin and end-to-end project plan across multiple responsible parties

People Management

• Ability to work collaboratively with others from any functional area/background, to influence thinking and gain acceptance; Track onboarding and joining of resources (FTE/ Contract) hired for the engagement in the account
• Conduct regular 1:1 with team members to gain any intel on projects, track/act on team member specific issues
• Provide inputs to L&D team on training needs specific to customer
• Identify performing team members for Spot Award, Quarterly Award and Annual Award
• Encourage team members to be part of events like Brown Bag sessions, Friday events (as applicable)

Skills/Experience

• 12 years of total IT experience with at least 8 years working in Azure Data projects and at least 4 years managing medium to large projects
• Technical proficiency in Microsoft platform during the initial stage of the career preferred; Strong experience working in an Onsite-Offshore model
• Ability to manage & drive projects with metrics and data, create structure and templates as necessary for project reviews; Ability to effectively drive execution and own responsibility for overall success of projects
• Superior problem-solving skills, leadership qualities, influencing, communicating, and consulting skills, team/interpersonal skills
• Strong analytical and creative problem-solving skills; Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong organizational skills; works well under pressure and with minimal supervision
• Degree in Computer Science or related stream from a reputable institution
• Good to have – Knowledge on Health care domain; Good understanding of Health care domain specifically Provider space (Value Based Care).