Technical Programme Manager

Location: Hybrid - 1-2 days onsite weekly (Germany or Spain)Contract Length: 6 months initially (with potential 3-month extensions and permanent option)Day Rate: £500-560pd (Outside IR35)Start Date: Immediate

You'll play a pivotal role in ensuring the successful ingestion of 500+ data sets into Snowflake, coordinating sprint-based delivery, managing cross-border teams, and maintaining high-quality communication with senior stakeholders across Data, IT, Compliance, and Change.

• Oversee phased ingestion of 500+ data sources into the client's Snowflake environment

• Liaise between offshore engineering teams (based in Bangalore) and EU client stakeholders

• Monitor delivery timelines, report progress, flag risks, and ensure quality governance

• Work across multi-disciplinary teams including data, compliance, change, and technology

• Maintain momentum in delivery while ensuring stakeholder expectations are managed

• Support issue identification and help shape future data opportunities within the platform

• Timely and accurate delivery of phased ingestion milestones

• Strong stakeholder alignment and minimal delivery blockers

• High-quality programme oversight across offshore/onshore boundaries

• Ability to push back where necessary and steer project direction assertively

• Foundation laid for long-term partnership and potential expansion of programme scope

• Proven experience as a Programme or Delivery Manager on data-centric programmes

• Solid understanding of data ingestion processes and Snowflake data warehousing

• Familiarity with AWS Glue, S3, DBT, SnapLogic, PySpark (not hands-on, but able to converse technically)

• Strong governance and delivery background in a data/tech environment

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills (must be assertive)

• Pharma industry experience highly desirable

• Experience working with offshore delivery models (especially India-based teams)

• Previous technical background (engineering or data) advantageous

• Consulting or third-party delivery background a plus