Technical Program Manager

Req ID: 359101 

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We are currently seeking a Technical Program Manager to join our team in Chennai, Tamil Nādu (IN-TN), India (IN).

Role Title: Program Technical Owner –Varicent Modernization & Compensation Data Platform
Positions: 1
Start: ASAP
Delivery Model: Offshore-first with strong cross-timezone collaboration (US + India) and engagement with Europe stakeholders
Program Context:  Bank compensation modernization program moving logic + data stitching upstream into an enterprise-owned Payments Data Platform to reduce dependency on Varicent’s rigid/expensive data model.

Role Summary

Serve as the single accountable technical leader for the Bank program to modernize and streamline compensation data processes across NA and Europe. Own end-to-end technical execution across three scrum teams, ensuring architectural integrity, delivery discipline, reconciliation controls, and auditability appropriate for a high-stakes compensation platform.

Key Responsibilities

Program technical ownership

• Own the technical roadmap and delivery plan for shifting data stitching and key logic upstream into the Payments Data Platform and minimizing Varicent dependency for data assembly.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership across 3 scrum teams.

Architecture governance

• Establish engineering standards, reference patterns, design review cadence, and reusable frameworks for pipelines, data models, and integrations.
• Ensure decisions are documented and governed (architecture decision records, risk register, change controls).

Discovery leadership

• Lead/coordinate discovery across NA and Europe with business and technology stakeholders:
• business rules currently embedded in code
• data source inventory and external file integrations
• current-state patterns across NA processes and EU processes
• Drive requirements clarity and resolve ambiguity before build.

Quality, audit, and operational controls

• Define and enforce quality gates for a compensation platform where errors can have financial/legal impact:
• reconciliation strategy against current Varicent outputs
• traceability and audit requirements (“why/how paid” explanations)
• production run governance for the 3× per month cadence

Stakeholder alignment

• Partner with Bank Product Owners, business stakeholders, and NTT delivery leads to maintain cross-functional alignment, remove blockers, and manage scope.

Required Experience & Skills

• 12+ years in enterprise technology delivery with 5+ years owning multi-team technical programs (data platform modernization preferred).
• Strong data platform leadership: ETL/ELT, data modeling, data quality, lineage, reconciliation, operational run management.
• Experience modernizing vendor-dependent architectures by moving logic/data preparation into enterprise-owned platforms.
• Excellent stakeholder management across regions/time zones; strong communication and decision facilitation.

Preferred / Nice to Have

• Varicent or Incentive Compensation Management (ICM) platform exposure.
• Rules engine/decisioning patterns (ODM/Drools or equivalent) and rule governance/versioning.
• MDM concepts, identity resolution, and reference data strategies.
• Cloud data platform experience (Azure/AWS/GCP), CI/CD for data pipelines. Azure experience is preferred.

About NTT DATA

NTT DATA is a $30 billion business and technology services leader, serving 75% of the Fortune Global 100. We are committed to accelerating client success and positively impacting society through responsible innovation. We are one of the world's leading AI and digital infrastructure providers, with unmatched capabilities in enterprise-scale AI, cloud, security, connectivity, data centers and application services. our consulting and Industry solutions help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have experts in more than 50 countries. We also offer clients access to a robust ecosystem of innovation centers as well as established and start-up partners. NTT DATA is a part of NTT Group, which invests over $3 billion each year in R&D.

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