Program Manager - Data Warehouse Cloud Migration (Insurance)

Employment: Contract Experience: Director Exerizon is a fast-growing strategy and technology consulting firm founded by former senior leaders from global consulting and cloud organizations. We help current and future market leaders tackle their greatest challenges — from digital strategy and cloud transformation to data & AI platforms and application modernization. We redefined the traditional consulting model: we share risk with our clients through impact-based remuneration, and we share ownership with our people from day one. We are looking for a Program Manager to own the end-to-end delivery of a large data warehouse migration to the cloud for an insurance client. The programme replaces a legacy enterprise data warehouse that feeds financial, actuarial and regulatory reporting with a cloud data platform — across many source systems, hundreds of reports and several workstreams, vendors and client teams. Regulatory reporting cannot miss a deadline while the migration runs. You are accountable for the whole thing: scope, plan, budget, risk, quality, vendors and the client relationship up to the steering committee. What you will do: Own the programme end to end: mobilisation, discovery and assessment, migration waves, parallel run, cut-over, decommissioning and hypercare — with a plan the steering committee can trust Structure the programme into workstreams (platform build, data migration, ETL / ELT re-engineering, reporting and BI migration, data quality and reconciliation, governance, change and adoption) and run them through workstream leads Own the budget and the business case: estimates, estimate at completion, vendor and licence costs, cloud consumption, and the trade-offs you bring to the steering committee when they move Run programme governance: steering committees, status and risk reporting, RAID log, change control, decision log — and raise bad news early with options attached Protect reporting continuity: plan migration waves around financial close, Solvency II and IFRS 17 cycles and regulator deadlines; define reconciliation and sign-off criteria with Finance, Actuarial and Risk before any source is switched off Manage vendors and system integrators: contracts, SOWs, deliverable acceptance, performance and escalation; coordinate the client's own data, IT, security and compliance teams Work with the lead architect and data engineering leads on the technical approach — target platform (Databricks, Snowflake or similar on Azure or AWS), migration tooling, environment strategy — and hold the team to delivery discipline and definition of done Make regulatory and security requirements part of the plan from day one: GDPR, DORA, outsourcing and cloud notification requirements of the insurance regulator, data residency, audit Lead change and adoption: report consumers, analysts and actuaries moving to the new platform, training, decommissioning of the legacy warehouse Contribute to Exerizon's growth: delivery methods and estimation assets for data migrations, proposals and pre-sales Requirements 10+ years in IT delivery, including 5+ years as a programme manager accountable for multi-workstream programmes with multi-million budgets and teams of 30+ across client, vendor and consulting staff At least one large data warehouse or data platform migration delivered end to end — legacy EDW (Oracle, Teradata, SQL Server, SAS, Informatica or similar) to a cloud platform (Databricks, Snowflake, Azure or AWS data services) — including parallel run, reconciliation and decommissioning Insurance experience: you understand the data behind policy administration, claims, reinsurance, finance and actuarial reporting, and the reporting calendar (financial close, Solvency II, IFRS 17) that the migration must not break Technical fluency, not just vocabulary: you can follow an architecture discussion on lakehouse vs. warehouse, ELT pipelines, data modelling and reconciliation approaches, and challenge an estimate or a wave plan Strong programme management toolkit: integrated planning, estimation and EAC tracking, RAID management, change control, benefits tracking, dependency management across workstreams Vendor and contract management: SOWs, acceptance, performance management and escalation with system integrators and software vendors Working knowledge of the regulatory environment for cloud in Polish financial services: GDPR, DORA, outsourcing and cloud notification requirements of the insurance regulator Executive-level communication: structured written status, clean steering decks, and the habit of raising bad news early with options attached; comfortable chairing a steering committee with a CFO and a CRO in the room Full professional fluency in Polish and English Nice to have: PMP, PRINCE2, MSP or SAFe certification Hands-on background in data engineering or BI earlier in your career Experience with migration tooling and automated conversion (e.g. ETL code converters, SQL translation, data reconciliation frameworks) FinOps for cloud data platforms: consumption forecasting and cost control Experience on the client side of an insurer or a bank Benefits Full ownership of a flagship programme and direct access to the client's executives and steering committee — no ten-layer review pyramid Competitive compensation on B2B contract Annual training and certification budget Hybrid work model with access to a central Warsaw office A seat at the table in shaping a young firm: our data & AI practice, delivery methods, hiring and culture