Technical Project Manager

Project manager, we need local candidates and 3 days in office is mandatory
Office is in Emeryville


Duration: 6 months ( will get extended)
Bill rate: 70-80
Location: Emeryville
Job remote or on-site 3 days onsite
Pay rate/salary: $ 45-56/hr w2
$55-62/he ctc
W2 restrictions or CTC is fine but better to have W2
About the Role: We are looking for a Technical Project Manager to lead and coordinate Data & Analytics Initiatives. This role will manage delivery of Data & Analytics Initiatives like Enterprise Reporting / Power BI dashboard delivery while also driving the planning and execution of the SAP HANA Sidecar / ODS migration to SAP BDC.


The ideal candidate has enough technical depth to understand data platform dependencies, reporting delivery, integrations, security, data quality, and SAP-related impacts, while also being able to communicate clearly with executives, business stakeholders, internal BT teams, and external vendors.

Responsibilities Include:

• Project Planning & Delivery Management
  • Build and manage integrated project plans across discovery, design, development, testing, UAT, deployment, hyper care, and transition to support.
  • Manage phased delivery plans for Enterprise Reporting dashboards and SAP BDC migration workstreams.
  • Track milestones, dependencies, deliverables, risks, issues, decisions, action items, owners, and due dates.
  • Ensure business, BT, architecture, data engineering, security, vendor, testing, rollout, and support activities are connected in one integrated plan.
  • Prepare clear weekly status reporting and develop and lead Steering Committee meetings for BT leadership and business stakeholders, including scope, budget, schedule, risks, mitigation plans, and key decisions needed.

• Enterprise Reporting Delivery
  • Coordinate phased delivery of Power BI dashboards and governed reporting capabilities across Store Operations, Merchandising, Purchasing, Supply Chain, Planning, Finance, and other business functions.
  • Manage dashboard scopes such as Sales Overview, Merchandising Overview, Shrink, Margin, OPP, Landing Page, Out-of-Stock / Zero Sales, Missing Sales, and other future reporting phases.
  • Partner with business stakeholders and SMEs to confirm reporting priorities, requirements, KPI definitions, UAT scope, rollout plans, and acceptance criteria.
  • Manage UAT planning, defect triage, issue resolution, readiness tracking, go-live coordination, training coordination, and hyper care.
  • Support decommissioning or consolidation of legacy reports to reduce duplicate reporting, inconsistent definitions, and manual reporting effort.

• SAP BDC / Data Platform Migration
  • Manage the BDC assessment and migration planning process, including current-state discovery, target architecture, replication strategy, phased migration roadmap, effort estimates, risks, and executive recommendations.
  • Drive Phase Wise Delivery of SAP HANA Side CAR Migration with integration within application areas.
  • Track data quality, access approvals, environment readiness, integration dependencies, architecture decisions, and migration risks.

• Governance, Vendor Management & Communication
  • Coordinate work across internal BT teams, business SMEs, architecture, data engineering, application, products, security, QA, and external partners.
  • Hold vendors accountable for deliverables, timelines, quality, risks, dependencies, and issue resolution.
  • Facilitate project meetings, technical working sessions, leadership updates, risk reviews, and decision discussions.
  • Translate technical risks and issues into clear business impacts, recommended options, and decisions needed from leadership.
  • Maintain project artifacts such as project charters, RAID logs, dependency trackers, UAT plans, deployment checklists, hyper care plans, vendor deliverable trackers, and executive-ready updates.

About You: Educational requirements, years of work experience, technical skills, competencies required, etc.

• 5-7 years of project management experience, including strong experience managing technical, data, analytics, reporting, integration, or platform migration projects.
• Experience managing Data & Analytics & Master Data Management Initiative.
• Strong understanding of data delivery concepts, including batch, near real-time, real-time feeds, data models, semantic layers, data quality, data governance, role-based access, and security controls.
• Experience with Delivery Projects in SAP-related data landscapes such as SAP HANA, SAP BW, SAP Datasphere, SAP Business Data Cloud or comparable enterprise data platforms or any other Data Platform stacks like Databricks, snowflake & Big Query
• Experience managing Power BI or similar enterprise dashboard delivery.
• Strong vendor management experience, including managing multiple external delivery partners and holding technical teams accountable.
• Ability to manage complex dependencies across business teams, technical teams, architecture, data engineering, QA, security, support, and vendors.
• Strong executive communication skills with the ability to create concise project updates, risk summaries, mitigation plans, and leadership-ready materials.
• Strong meeting facilitation, follow-up, documentation, and accountability management skills.
• Preferred Experience
  • Retail, grocery, store operations, supply chain, merchandising, purchasing, planning, or finance experience.
  • Experiencing Managing Data & Analytics Project or SAP Analytics Project or Master Data Management Projects
  • Experience delivering enterprise reporting programs across multiple business functions and user groups.
  • Experience managing phased migration projects or platform modernization initiatives.
  • Experience with UAT, defect triage, go-live readiness, hyper care, change readiness, and operational transition.
  • Familiarity with Agile, hybrid, and waterfall delivery methods and tools such as MS Project, Smartsheet, Azure DevOps, Jira, Confluence, Power BI, SharePoint, or Clarizen.