Senior Data Product Owner at Judge Group

Job Title: Senior Data Product Owner

Location: Phoenix, AZ, Westerville, OH or Irving, TX

Job Type: Full Time Employee

About the Role:

As the Senior Data Product Owner, you will lead continuous delivery teams responsible for the data solutions required by our Regulatory Reporting program. You will facilitate the use of agile best practices and continuous improvement in delivering internal data flows and analytics data products associated with Large Financial Institution (LFI) reporting and standard Regulatory Reporting requirements. You are accountable for the daily operations, agile ceremonies, and Epic/Feature/Story work breakdown for multiple scrum teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead continuous delivery teams consisting of data engineers, data analysts, data modelers, and QA engineers.
• Ensure the backlog and committed work are properly defined, groomed, and organized.
• Lead daily stand-ups, run retrospectives, facilitate sprint demos, and work closely with the Data Platform Product Manager.
• Manage the Azure DevOps board for all data-related Regulatory Reporting Epics and Features.
• Publish information and communicate clearly to management and the team regarding process, obstacles, changes, and key milestones.
• Coordinate evaluation of scope change, estimates, priority, and trade-offs with Business and Technical Stakeholders.
• Establish Sprint schedule and ceremonies (daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, sprint reviews & retrospectives).
• Actively plan for, participate in, and contribute to PI Planning events.
• Ensure adherence to standard (Agile) processes, use of tools, and established project delivery standards.
• Facilitate scrum of scrums, as needed.
• Champion continuous improvement activities to reduce waste and increase productivity.
• Collaborate with Dev, QA, UAT, business teams, and production support team to achieve established data product delivery goals.
• Create an environment of collaboration within the teams that allows for open dialogue and productive solutions for resolving conflicts.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience running projects and teams using the scrum, agile, or scaled agile methodology.
• Expertise in using Azure DevOps or JIRA for planning and execution.
• Experience in executing to a product vision and goals and communicating product workflow to keep colleagues informed.
• Experience promoting the agile mindset and guiding teams in discovery and learning.
• Experience facilitating discussions of complex, high-value IT delivery projects.
• Ability to work/collaborate across the organization, internally and externally.
• Experience interacting at Board/Executive management level of businesses.
• Experience working in an onshore-offshore model.
• Strong negotiation, influencing, critical thinking, coaching, and facilitation skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and strong executive presence.
• Preferred experience in Regulatory Reporting and the Banking industry.
• Agile/SAFe Certifications preferred.
• Experience in RTE and/or Product Owner roles preferred.
• Experience running data management programs and products preferred.