Principal Program Manager, Enterprise Data

Requisition ID # 161970 

Job Category: Project / Program Management 

Job Level: Manager/Principal

Business Unit: Information Technology

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

 

 

Department Overview

 

The Enterprise Data Management (EDM) team enables data governance, quality, and metadata management capabilities to maximize the use and ensure the trustworthiness of PG&E’s critical data assets.

 

Position Summary

 

Are you passionate about using data to change the world?  Do you evangelize making data trustworthy? Do you love influencing the strategic direction of a company through executive influence and change management? Are you the sort of person who brings order to chaos and uses systematic approaches to organize work? Do you get up in the morning excited to solve problems? Do you get stuff done, no matter who you have to talk to, what red tape you have to wrecking ball through, or what process you have to invent?  If you not only answered "yes" to these questions, but your heart picked up its pace with excitement, stop skimming job descriptions for a couple minutes and read this one top to bottom because we have an opportunity for you.

 

PG&E has been collecting data since the telegraph was a primary means of communication. We have lots of data, and we are embarking on a strategic journey to revolutionize how we manage and store it. The business must organize to manage data, and this Principal Program Manager will lead, organize, and coach this initiative. This person will design, build, and mature the organizational structures to manage data at the enterprise level. Leveraging this organizational structure, this person will strategically manage projects to master the company's most critical data, including setting standards, building the data model, ensuring architectural and integration alignment, and strategically improving the quality of the data. Most importantly, this person will understand the problems and challenges of the business and lead functional areas to articulate the value of the company's data as an asset. Think of a "data czar". This role will be the data czar's righthand person, the executor, the person who takes the strategic vision of data management and turns it into reality one win at a time. This person will get stuff done, and it will matter. It will change the world.

 

The role is hybrid working from your remote office and in-person at the Oakland General Office, 0-3 days on average per week based on business needs.

 

G&E is providing the salary range that the company in good faith believes it might pay for this position at the time of the job posting. This compensation range is specific to the locality of the job. The actual salary paid to an individual will be based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, geographic location, and internal equity. Although we estimate the successful candidate hired into this role will be placed between the entry point and the middle of the range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to these factors.​ This job is also eligible to participate in PG&E’s discretionary incentive compensation programs.

A reasonable salary range is:​

 

Bay Area Minimum:       $140,000  

Bay Area Maximum:       $238,000

 

Now that we have your attention, let us take a look at some specific opportunities to further whet your appetite and convince you that this is the best work to put your mind to.

 

Job Responsibilities

 

• You coach people and teams:
  • You actively listen:  Listen empathetically, motivating others through assuring them they are heard and valued.
  • You create high performing teams:  Design and lead cross-functional teams to address data management challenges and maintain data as a trusted, valuable product long term.
  • You BFF the business: Build relationships with organization leadership, data stewards, data scientists, data analysts, and data decision makers throughout the company and understand their needs, concerns, and value opportunities.
• You lead through change:
  • You organize and plan:  Manage the emotion of change, direct the rational need for direction, and c