Senior Data Enablement Program Manager

November 21

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Risepoint

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Education • B2B

Risepoint is an education technology company that partners with regional public and private universities to design, launch, and grow workforce-focused online degree programs. It provides marketing, student support, faculty support, technology implementations, performance monitoring, and student ROI research to help institutions expand access, increase enrollments, and deliver high-return programs for working adults.

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2007

📚 Education

🤝 B2B

📋 Description

• Facilitate the end-to-end delivery of the organization’s data roadmap, spanning data infrastructure, platforms, governance, and analytics initiatives. • Drive alignment between technology teams, analytics teams, and business partners, ensuring shared understanding of priorities, scope, and outcomes. • Establish clear program governance, tracking mechanisms, and performance metrics to monitor progress against goals. • Facilitate executive-level visibility and communication, including updates, dashboards, and program reviews. • Collaborate with the Enterprise Data Platforms team, business data owners, product teams, and IT partners to ensure seamless program execution. • Serve as the connective layer between data architects, engineering teams, and executive sponsors to drive clarity and accountability. • Provide executive-level reporting on program milestones, risks, dependencies, and performance metrics. • Facilitate effective stakeholder communication and alignment across business domains leveraging data. • Partner with Data Governance to ensure adherence to Unity Catalog-based governance, fine-grained access controls, and audit policies. • Support risk identification and mitigation strategies across data lifecycle stages — ingestion, transformation, and consumption. • Help ensure data quality, lineage, and compliance with organizational and regulatory standards. • Support implementation of enterprise metadata and classification frameworks for consistent data stewardship. • Lead multiple concurrent initiatives through all phases — planning, execution, monitoring, and closure. • Build and maintain detailed project plans, including milestones, dependencies, and deliverables. • Oversee risk, issue, and change management, proactively identifying and mitigating obstacles to ensure on-time delivery. • Drive structured retrospectives and continuous improvement within the data delivery lifecycle. • Understand and articulate the organization’s data strategy, architecture, and key data domains. • Act as a trusted advisor to stakeholders, bridging the gap between business goals and data capabilities. • Support data-driven decision-making by ensuring timely availability and quality of data deliverables.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of progressive experience in program or project management, ideally within data, analytics, or technology organizations. • Strong understanding of data ecosystems — including data platforms, pipelines, governance, and analytics. • Proven experience driving cross-functional programs with multiple stakeholders. • Excellent organizational, communication, and stakeholder management skills. • Demonstrated ability to manage risks, dependencies, and competing priorities in complex environments. • Proven track record delivering modern data platform initiatives using Databricks, Delta Lake, dbt, and Unity Catalog. • Experience transitioning from legacy platforms (e.g., Azure Synapse, ADF, SSIS) to modern lakehouse architectures. • Familiarity with DataOps, CI/CD automation, dimensional data modeling, and data product delivery. • Strong understanding of cloud ecosystems, particularly Azure and Databricks integration patterns. • Ability to manage multiple parallel workstreams across platform, engineering, and analytics functions. • Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills with a track record of executive engagement.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • Retirement plans • Paid time off • Flexible work arrangements • Professional development