Technical Program Manager, Data

Oscar Health•New York, NY

8h•$117,576 - $154,319•Hybrid

About The Position

Oscar is hiring a Technical Program Manager, Data to join its Technical PMO and lead a major enterprise data transformation. The role owns program execution from planning through delivery and operational handoff, protecting the quality and integrity of data used across the business. The program includes revamping data transformation and semantic layers and evolving data governance and data quality capabilities. The TPM coordinates Analytics Engineering, Data Engineering, Data Scientists, Analysts, and business owners through migration, validation, adoption, and operational handoff. Data Engineering is accountable for architecture and implementation; the TPM leads technical program execution and partners closely with Data leadership. This is an individual contributor role reporting to the Director, Technical Program Management. The position is based in Oscar’s New York City office and follows a hybrid schedule requiring three in-office days per week. Thursdays are required in-office; the other two office days are flexible. Base pay is $117,576–$154,319 per year, with eligibility for employee benefits, Oscar’s unlimited vacation program, and annual performance bonuses.

Requirements

At least 5 years of technical program or project management, or process-oriented operations, work experience.
At least 2 years of experience using coding languages such as SQL to analyze project performance and risks and develop reports for management and business owners.
Experience independently leading complex software development programs across multiple teams, from planning through launch and operational handoff.
Technical fluency in data pipelines, transformation layers, data models, semantic layers, lineage, and integrations, with the judgment to challenge migration plans, validation approaches, and implementation tradeoffs.
Ability to structure ambiguous enterprise programs, manage cross-domain dependencies and competing priorities, and coordinate data validation, cutover readiness, and business continuity.
Experience building trust and influencing decisions across Analytics Engineering, Data Engineering, Data Scientists, Analysts, business owners, and executive stakeholders without direct authority.
Clear written and verbal communication, including translating technical migration risks into business impact and recommending a course of action to senior leaders.
Strong ownership and follow-through, including examples of moving work forward when plans change or obstacles arise.

Nice To Haves

Experience in healthcare, health insurance, or another regulated industry.
Experience with dbt and Cube, or comparable transformation and semantic-layer technologies.
Experience implementing data governance, data quality controls, lineage, or consistent business metric definitions across domains.
Experience coordinating external vendors and helping business and analytics teams adopt new data platforms and ways of working.
Experience migrating business-critical analytics or reporting with staged validation, reconciliation, cutover, and rollback practices.

Responsibilities

Own the integrated enterprise data migration plan from scoping through delivery and operational handoff, including owners, migration waves, milestones, dependencies, and acceptance criteria.
Coordinate dbt migration, Cube implementation, data governance, and data quality workstreams; resolve gaps in scope, sequencing, and readiness.
Partner with Analytics Engineering, Data Engineering, Data Scientists, Analysts, and business owners to map dependencies, coordinate commitments, and clarify scope, sequencing, and capacity tradeoffs.
Anticipate migration risks and drive timely decisions; escalate with options, recommendations, and impacts on data quality, integrity, reporting, and business continuity.
Coordinate data reconciliation, testing, cutover and rollback plans, adoption, and operational readiness.
Ensure technical and business owners agree on validation evidence, go/no-go criteria, and required security, privacy, and compliance reviews.
Provide Data and executive leaders with visibility into migration progress, readiness, unresolved decisions, and outcomes.
Drive business acceptance and clear operational ownership for migrated domains.
Support the development of a strong TPM team by sharing practices, challenging unnecessary processes, supporting colleagues, and improving delivery based on lessons learned.
Comply with applicable laws and regulations and perform other duties as assigned.