Data / Cloud Platform Transformation Delivery Lead

Outstanding long-term contract opportunity with a well-known Financial Services Company in Irving, TX (Hybrid). Work with the brightest minds at one of the largest financial institutions in the world. This role includes a competitive benefit package. Our client has been around for over 150 years and is continuously innovating in today's digital age, focusing on satisfying customers' financial needs and helping people succeed financially.

About the Role

This role supports the key enterprise initiative of the Data Platforms Modernization program, leading the transformation of enterprise data platforms, application migration, and cloud modernization efforts. The position combines Scrum Master and Project/Program Management responsibilities with strong Technical Delivery Leadership experience, ensuring successful execution of data platform and cloud migration initiatives while aligning outcomes with business objectives, regulatory requirements, and technology strategy.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of platform modernization initiatives across multiple product domains.
• Manage complex dependencies involving application migrations, data center exits, cloud adoption, and platform decommissioning.
• Ensure milestones, deliverables, budgets, and timelines are achieved through disciplined program governance.
• Partner with Line of Business CIOs, engineering leaders, product managers, risk, compliance, finance, and audit stakeholders.
• Facilitate executive decision-making, tradeoff discussions, and prioritization across competing demands.
• Provide executive communications and status reporting to leadership forums and steering committees.
• Run the program governance and oversight routines.
• Consolidate and report on roadmaps, risks, financials, metrics, dependencies, and key decisions.
• Drive issue resolution and risk mitigation across modernization programs and change initiatives.
• Enable migration from legacy platforms to strategic target-state platforms.
• Support adoption of cloud-native architectures, modern data pipelines, APIs, automation, and scalable analytics capabilities.
• Coordinate retirement of obsolete infrastructure and technologies while maintaining operational stability.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in any field required; technology or computer science background preferred.
• 7+ years of relevant experience with a combination of the following skills, tools, and functional areas:
  • Strong understanding of Data Platforms and Cloud migrations
  • Advanced Excel with ability to run complex queries and pivots for Executive reporting
  • Power BI or Tableau (preferred)
  • Jira and Agile reporting, JIRA automations
  • Expert in SharePoint, Microsoft 365 and collaboration tools
  • Data visualization and dashboard creation using JIRA
  • Ability to manage ambiguity and drive execution
  • Cross-functional coordination
  • Proven use of AI tools in managing program reporting, managing AI-projects and SDLC
  • Experience utilizing GenAI tools, including Microsoft Copilot and similar AI-powered productivity solutions

Benefits

This long-term contract opportunity includes a competitive benefit package.

Schedule

Contract Duration: 12+ Months