Technical Project Manager - Data & Engineering Transformation

Your Team Responsibilities

We are seeking a Senior Technical Project Manager to manage the end-to-end transformation of our data supply chain and engineering platforms into a modern, cloud-native, AI-enabled data stack. This role will be responsible for driving large-scale, multi-year initiatives that replace legacy data pipelines, evaluate and onboard new data sources, modernize data engineering practices, and enable advanced AI-enabled production across the firm.

The ideal candidate is deeply technical, comfortable operating at executive altitude, and proven at delivering complex data and platform transformations in regulated, data-intensive environments such as financial information services.

Your Key Responsibilities

Data & Platform Transformation Leadership

• Own and drive the delivery of a comprehensive modernization program covering data evaluation, ingestion, processing, storage, and consumption on a cloud-native stack.

• Lead the transition from legacy and on-prem data systems to modern architectures (e.g., cloud data lakes/lakehouses, modern orchestration).

• Partner with data engineering, platform engineering, operations, security, and AI teams to define and execute the transformation roadmap.

Program & Delivery Management

• Plan and manage a large, cross-functional program with multiple interdependent workstreams, vendors, and stakeholders.

• Establish clear milestones, success metrics, risk management plans, and dependency tracking across data supply, engineering, and downstream consumers.

New Data Source Enablement

• Lead programs to identify, onboard, and operationalize new data sources at scale.

• Coordinate the data engineering works from design to execution as well as new content evaluation, testing, and implementation.

• Ensure data platform build supports future AI, analytics, and product innovation.

AI Enablement

• Ensure the modern data stack is designed to support AI and other deterministically automated use cases.

• Partner with data operations and AI teams to remove data bottlenecks, improve feature availability, and enable faster experimentation and production deployment.

• Drive alignment between platform capabilities and evolving AI strategies.

Stakeholder & Executive Engagement

• Act as a trusted partner to senior engineering leaders, data leaders, product managers, and executive stakeholders.

• Translate complex technical work into clear business outcomes, trade-offs, and investment decisions.

• Provide transparent communication on progress, risks, and delivery outcomes.

Governance, Quality, and Resilience

• Embed strong data quality, observability, lineage, security, and governance practices into delivery plans.

• Ensure solutions meet regulatory, audit, and operational resilience requirements expected of a financial data firm.

• Drive continuous improvement in delivery efficiency, reliability, and scalability.

Your skills and experience that will help you excel

Qualifications and Experience

• 10+ years of experience in technical program or project management, with significant experience leading data platform or data engineering transformations.

• Demonstrated success delivering large-scale, cloud-based data initiatives in financial information services, fintech, or other regulated, data-intensive industries.

• Strong understanding of modern data architectures, including cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), data lakes/lakehouses, ETL/ELT, and orchestration tools.

• Proven ability to manage complex dependencies across engineering, data, security, legal, and compliance teams.

• Experience working closely with data engineers, platform engineers, content subject matter experts, and data scientists.

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering or related field (or equivalent experience). Advanced degree is a plus.

Technical & Domain Skills

• Cloud-native data platforms and modern data stacks

• Data engineering concepts (pipelines, schemas, lineage, quality, observability)

• AI/ML data enablement and analytics readiness

• Systems integration and legacy modernization

• Market data or financial information expertise

Program & Leadership Skills

• Large-scale program planning and execution

• Risk, dependency, and stakeholder management

• Executive-level communication and influence

• Agile and hybrid delivery methodologies

Personal Attributes

• Highly structured, outcome-driven, and comfortable with ambiguity

• Strong technical curiosity and ability to challenge design decisions constructively

• Calm and decisive under pressure in complex delivery environments

• Bias toward action while maintaining rigor and quality

About MSCI

What we offer you

• Salary range: $156,000 - $203,000 / year plus eligible for annual bonus
• Transparent compensation schemes and comprehensive employee benefits, tailored to your location, ensuring your financial security, health, and overall wellbeing.

• Flexible working arrangements, advanced technology, and collaborative workspaces.

• A culture of high performance and innovation where we experiment with new ideas and take responsibility for achieving results.

• A global network of talented colleagues, who inspire, support, and share their expertise to innovate and deliver for our clients.

• Global Orientation program to kickstart your journey, followed by access to our Learning@MSCI platform, AI Learning Center , LinkedIn Learning Pro and tailored learning opportunities for ongoing skills development.

• Multi-directional career paths that offer professional growth and development through new challenges, internal mobility and expanded roles.

• We actively nurture an environment that builds a sense of inclusion belonging and connection, including eight Employee Resource Groups. All Abilities, Asian Support Network, Black Leadership Network, Climate Action Network, Hola! MSCI, Pride & Allies, Women in Tech, and Women’s Leadership Forum.

At MSCI we are passionate about what we do, and we are inspired by our vision – to power better decisions. You’ll be part of an industry-leading network of creative, curious, and entrepreneurial pioneers. This is a space where you can challenge yourself, set new standards and perform beyond expectations for yourself, our clients, and our industry.

MSCI strengthens global markets by connecting participants across the financial ecosystem with a common language. Our research-based data, analytics and indexes, supported by advanced technology, set standards for global investors and help our clients understand risks and opportunities so they can make better decisions and unlock innovation. We serve asset managers and owners, private-market sponsors and investors, hedge funds, wealth managers, banks, insurers and corporates.

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