Technical Program Director – Snowflake Migration (BFSI Data Platform Modernization)

We are seeking an experienced Technical Program Director to lead large-scale enterprise data platform modernization and Snowflake migration programs for clients in the Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance (BFSI) sector.

This role requires a strong combination of program leadership, technical understanding of modern data platforms, and stakeholder management across client and delivery teams. The ideal candidate will oversee end-to-end migration initiatives—from strategy and design through implementation and stabilization—while ensuring alignment with business goals, regulatory requirements, and enterprise architecture standards.

The Technical Program Director will act as the central leader across multiple teams, driving execution, managing dependencies, ensuring delivery quality, and maintaining strong engagement with senior client stakeholders.

Job Responsibilities::
• Lead end-to-end Snowflake migration and data platform modernization programs across multiple teams and workstreams.

• Define and manage the overall program roadmap, delivery milestones, dependencies, and risk mitigation strategies.

• Ensure successful execution across migration phases including assessment, design, migration, validation, and production stabilization.

• Establish program governance frameworks, including reporting cadence, escalation paths, and executive updates.

• Serve as the primary interface for senior client stakeholders including CIOs, CDAOs, platform leaders, and business sponsors.

• Facilitate design alignment and decision-making across architecture, engineering, security, governance, and business teams.

• Provide clear program status updates, risk assessments, and mitigation strategies to executive leadership.

• Build trusted relationships with client leadership and ensure alignment between business priorities and program execution.

• Ensure migration strategies align with Snowflake architecture best practices and cloud-native design patterns.

• Collaborate with architects and engineering teams to guide solution design and implementation.

• Provide oversight on data migration approaches, including: Data ingestion and transformation patterns, Data validation and reconciliation, Performance optimization and cost governance

• Ensure integration with enterprise ecosystems including data governance, security, and downstream analytics platforms.

• Ensure migration approaches consider financial industry regulatory requirements, data governance policies, and risk controls.

• Align platform modernization efforts with business capabilities such as risk analytics, regulatory reporting, fraud detection, and financial operations.

• Provide industry perspective and best practices for enterprise data platform transformation in BFSI environments.

• Ensure quality assurance and validation processes are embedded within the migration lifecycle.

• Establish program management frameworks covering: Delivery governance, Change management, Risk identification and mitigation, Resource planning and allocation

• Manage cross-team dependencies across data engineering, infrastructure, testing, and operations teams.

Job Requirements::
• 15+ years of experience in data engineering, data platforms, or enterprise data transformation, with 8+ years leading large-scale migration programs (preferably Snowflake)

• Proven ability to lead end-to-end program delivery across multiple workstreams, including roadmap planning, execution, governance, and risk management

• Strong expertise in modern data architectures and cloud platforms (e.g., Microsoft Azure, AWS, GCP)

• Deep knowledge of data migration strategies, including ingestion, transformation, validation, reconciliation, and performance optimization

• Experience working in financial services (BFSI) with understanding of regulatory, data governance, and risk requirements

• Strong stakeholder management and leadership skills, with the ability to engage senior executives (CIO, CDAO) and lead cross-functional teams

Expected Leadership Qualities::
• Customer Advocacy - Ensures customer success on stated and unstated business priorities through strategic advice and market leading solutions.

• Owner’s Mindset - Is passionate about Brillio’s business, deeply committed to its success and makes decisions that are in the best interest of the firm.

• Innovation Ethos - Embraces ambiguity and adopts relentless experimentation to challenge current practices and enable continuous growth.

• Execution with Pace - Displays agility to deliver high quality results in the face of changing stakeholder expectations.

• Big Picture Thinking - Creates a common definition of shared success and sets bold targets that inspire the team towards new horizons.