[Hiring] Technical Program Manager - Data & AI Platform @Kapitus

Role Description

Kapitus is building a next-generation enterprise data and AI capability that replaces hundreds of legacy analytics workflows with governed, reusable business data products and moves the organization from producing reports to producing decisions. We are looking for an experienced Technical Program Manager to run the day-to-day execution of this program. This is not a status-reporting role. You will own the integrated delivery plan across concurrent workstreams:

• Data architecture and platform engineering
• Governed business data products
• MDM and ontology
• Semantic and consumption layers
• Data governance
• ML/MLOps
• GenAI/agentic AI

This will be delivered by a mix of internal teams and external consulting partners across onshore, nearshore, and offshore locations. You will keep a milestone-gated, tightly budgeted program on schedule, hold vendors to their commitments, and be credible in front of both engineers and executives.

You report directly to the program executive leading the Data & AI organization and serve as the operational execution lead for the transformation program. You are not the architect, the product owner, the engineering lead, or the Scrum Master; you are the person who turns architecture decisions into plans, plans into accountable work, and work into accepted, evidenced outcomes.

What you will do:

• Program delivery and planning:
  • Own and maintain the single authoritative integrated delivery plan across internal teams and all delivery partners.
  • Own end-to-end readiness of each data product delivery wave.
  • Run the program’s delivery cadence end to end.
  • Manage milestone-gated delivery.
  • Track budget consumption against not-to-exceed envelopes.
  • Plan realistically.
• Vendor and partner management:
  • Manage day-to-day execution with external consulting partners.
  • Coordinate distributed teams across time zones.
  • Prepare the evidence trail for invoice approval.
  • Maintain traceability from contractual deliverables through program requirements.
• Technical coordination:
  • Understand the work well enough to challenge it.
  • Run dependency management between platform hardening and data product waves.
  • Coordinate governance readiness alongside product delivery.
  • Manage cross-functional readiness dependencies.
  • Facilitate architecture and design decision forums.
• Stakeholder management:
  • Be the connective tissue between business owners and other stakeholders.
  • Communicate program status in plain language.
  • Drive closure, not coordination alone.

Qualifications

• 10+ years delivering complex technology programs.
• 5+ years leading enterprise data/platform transformation programs.
• Consulting or professional services delivery background.
• Deep, practiced agile delivery skills.
• Modern cloud data platform fluency and hands-on program experience.
• Strong AI/ML literacy.
• Vendor management experience.
• Financial discipline comfortable owning budget tracking.
• Excellent communication skills.

Requirements

• Experience in financial services in lending, banking, fintech, or another regulated environment.
• Experience with data product operating models.
• Certifications such as PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM/A-CSM, SAFe, or equivalent.
• Snowflake, Databricks, or cloud (AWS/Azure) certifications.
• Experience standing up program governance from scratch.

Benefits

• Competitive Base Salary Range of $120,400-$193,200.
• Annual Incentive Compensation Eligibility – Up to 10% annually.
• Health Insurance: Comprehensive medical, dental, and employer-paid vision plans.
• Flexible Spending Account.
• Lifestyle Spending Account.
• 100% Company Paid Insurances.
• Voluntary Insurance.
• Paid Maternity and Parental Leave.
• Commuter Benefits.
• LifeBalance Program.
• Plum Benefits Discount Program.
• Tuition Reimbursement: Up to $5,000 annually.
• Travel Reimbursement for work-related travel.
• Paid Time Off and Sick Time.
• Retirement Benefits: 401K plan with a 25% match on contributions.