Data Product Owner - Data Modernization - Associate

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic and growing team in a fast paced and challenging area? This is a unique opportunity for you to work in the Product Owner team to partner with the Business.

The Data Product Owner for Data Modernization is responsible for executing critical data management activities that support strategic business and product objectives, process design, advanced analytics, and reporting, with a focus on the Work Capabilities Data Domain. This role involves collaborating with multiple stakeholders to ensure data is well-understood, documented, and effectively utilized across the organization. As a Data Owner in the work capabilities team, you will support the strategic direction led by the Work Capabilities Data Domain Owner to manage data quality, governance, and risk, while fostering strong relationships with data delivery partners and consumers.

Job Responsibilities:

• Implement strategic plans to deliver data solutions that effectively support business operations and strategic objectives, ensuring alignment with organization.
• Manage discovery efforts and market research to uncover customer solutions and integrate them into the product roadmap.
• Own, maintain, and develop a product backlog that enables development to support the overall strategic roadmap and value proposition.
• Define, describe, and register data products and offerings, leveraging strategic data dictionary tools.
• Work closely with Product Owner and other product leadership to understand overall product priorities and champion data needs.
• Ensure data is described, available, and accessible to consumers where needed.
• Partner regularly with the Data Domain Owner to stay aligned with evolving strategies for the Data Domain.
• Communicate regular updates and provide feedback on the effectiveness of data strategies and execution effectiveness.
• Lead both deep delivery and level up to ascertain, formulate, and communicate a clear strategic plan and approach.
• Assess independently and proactively through data to ensure requirements are clear and forward-thinking as we modernize the platform.
• Navigate seamlessly through a complex web of products, teams, and infrastructure that has legacy burdens.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• 5 years of experience in product management or a related role.
• In-depth understanding of data management principles, governance frameworks, and lifecycle management, including data protection, data quality and data classification and Experience managing delivery across multiple workstreams with varying timelines, priorities, and complexities. Experience with Agile methodologies and tools (e.g., Scrum, JIRA).
• Technical understanding of data management and governance, cloud-based data platforms, or data architecture required.
• Influence a culture of data ownership and accountability across client domain functions, inclusive of sales, marketing, and client service.
• Review and monitor monthly data risk metrics and drive remediation efforts to address any metric breaches. and Familiarity with data modeling, BDM, and the ability to model decision models in Signavio.
• Hands-on in large data analysis using Excel, Alteryx, etc. to provide actionable insights and Proficient in MS Office suite of applications and Project Management, Governance and collaboration tools including JIRA, SharePoint, Confluence etc.
• Experience with rules execution engines such as Drools and Ability to run ad-hoc reporting and write SQL queries.