Job Description
Senior Technical Project Manager – Teradata to Databricks Migration
12+ Months Contract
Canada - REMOTE
Key Responsibilities
Program Leadership & Execution
- Lead end-to-end delivery of the Teradata-to-Databricks migration on behalf of Ness and Databricks, ensuring scope, quality, budget, and schedule adherence.
- Oversee planning, execution, and delivery activities across globally distributed data engineering and architecture teams.
- Coordinate migration workstreams including data extraction, schema conversion, transformation, validation, and cutover.
- Ensure technical delivery is aligned with Databricks best practices and customer architecture principles.
- Manage critical dependencies between Teradata source systems, data pipelines, and new Databricks Lakehouse components.
Governance, Reporting & Quality Control
- Enforce robust governance frameworks including stand ups, steering committee oversight, JIRA management, and change control.
- Manage scope of widgets required for conversion, test, deployment across multiple subject areas and technologies.
- Produce executive-level dashboards, project metrics, and detailed delivery reports across schedule, and risk dimensions.
- Maintain alignment with Databricks and customer PMO standards, ensuring auditability and traceability of key deliverables.
- Drive continuous improvement in delivery processes, quality assurance, and documentation accuracy.
Stakeholder & Relationship Management
- Serve as the Sr delivery interface among Ness Digital, Databricks program management, and the customer’s executive and technical leadership.
- Foster effective collaboration across global teams, ensuring consistent communication and timely decision-making across time zones.
- Represent Ness in program governance and leadership forums, articulating risks, dependencies, and delivery health clearly and credibly.
- Build trusted relationships with Databricks technical and account leadership to align on strategic goals and escalation management.
Technical Understanding & Oversight
- Provide strong working knowledge of Teradata data warehouse architectures , conversion approaches, and testing.
- Understand and manage technical decision making around aspects of Teradata to Databricks migration , including data ingestion, multiple ETL Frameworks, and Talend-based processing.
- Ensure proper validation, data reconciliation, and performance benchmarks between legacy and target environments.
- Collaborate with technical leads to define and execute migration methodologies, test plans, and production readiness criteria.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in technical project or program management , with a minimum of 3 years leading large-scale data platform or cloud migrations.
- Direct experience managing Teradata-to-Cloud (Databricks preferred) migration programs in enterprise settings.
- Familiarity with Databricks platform components — Delta Lake, Spark, Unity Catalog, Workflows, and Lakehouse architecture.
- Experience working in a multi-vendor delivery model , ideally as a subcontractor within a hyperscaler or strategic partner ecosystem.
- Proven ability to manage distributed teams across multiple geographies and time zones .
- Advanced proficiency in project governance, object inventory control, and executive reporting.
- Certification(s) preferred:
- Teradata Certified Professional (TCPP or TDBA)
- Databricks Certified Data Engineer / Administrator
- PMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent project management certification.
Job Tags
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