Program Manager, Databricks & Enterprise Data Platforms (AI)

Location: Dallas, Texas — client onsite

Salary: Up to $150,000 per year, plus potential discretionary bonus.

Company

Fractal is a strategic AI partner delivering data, analytics, and technology transformation solutions for Fortune 500 companies.

What you will do

• Manage multiple concurrent Databricks initiatives for a global biopharmaceutical client across internal stakeholders and vendor partners.
• Lead senior client workshops covering problem framing, solution strategy, modernization roadmaps, and AI and data platform transformation.
• Define enterprise architecture visions, reference architectures, reusable patterns, governance models, and engineering standards.
• Design scalable data platforms across ingestion, transformation, modeling, metadata, lineage, quality, observability, and consumption layers.
• Guide technical execution, solution reviews, delivery governance, CI/CD, DevOps, testing, monitoring, and cost optimization.
• Mentor architects, engineers, and technical leads while supporting executive-level architecture discussions and client success.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in data architecture, software engineering, cloud platforms, AI/ML platforms, data engineering, or enterprise solution architecture.
• 4+ years of consulting, client advisory, or complex enterprise technology transformation experience.
• Strong experience with life sciences, pharmaceutical, healthcare, or other regulated enterprise data environments.
• Hands-on architecture experience with Databricks, AWS, Spark, SQL, Python, cloud-native data platforms, distributed compute, and lakehouse architectures.
• Strong knowledge of data modeling, metadata, lineage, data quality, governance, observability, CI/CD, DevOps, automated testing, monitoring, logging, and cost optimization.
• Ability to lead large multi-team programs, modernization roadmaps, technical governance, and senior stakeholder or steering committee discussions.

Nice to have

• Experience with dbt Core or Cloud, Data Vault 2.0, data product architecture, Unity Catalog, and ML/AI enablement.
• Experience with AWS services including S3, Glue, Redshift, EMR, Lambda, Athena, Kinesis, or DynamoDB.
• Experience advising Fortune 500 or Fortune 50 clients and working with global onsite/offshore delivery teams.
• Experience creating thought leadership, solution accelerators, reusable architecture patterns, or transformation offerings.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with health, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability coverage from the first day.
• Eligibility for the company 401(k) plan after 30 days.
• 11 paid holidays and 12 weeks of parental leave.
• Free-time PTO policy supporting vacation and sick leave flexibility.
• Immigration sponsorship is not available for this position.