Job Description

Job Title: Data Product Owner

Job Location: Irving, Texas (HYBRID)

Contract Duration: 6+ Month Contract-to-Hire

Job description:

This international financial services industry leader has an immediate 6-month contract-to-hire opportunity in Irving, TX for a Product Owner on the Data Engineering and Analytics team. This position requires working onsite 2 days per week (Tuesdays, Wednesdays preferred) in the Irving/Las Colinas office. As a member of an Agile Scrum team, the Product Owner will work directly with the business and be responsible for building Product roadmaps and backlogs. Will direct and coordinate the product development and serve as a collaborative liaison between the Product Management and Product Delivery teams by prioritizing and evaluating work. Will maintain the product/team backlog, leading backlog prioritization of initiatives, aligning experiences across channels and touch points to ensure the best business results.

Required Skills & Experience

• 2-4 years of Product Owner experience on an Agile Scrum team.
• 2-4+ years of data experience including data warehouse, data roadmaps, data strategy, data pipelines, data management.
• Jira or Tableau experience.
• Azure DevOps experience (or AWS or GCP)
• Working knowledge of risk management, loss control management and coordinating vendor relationships
• Thorough understanding of Vision/Roadmap creation, Portfolio/Program/Team Backlog creation, refinement and prioritization
• Proficient understanding of XML/JSON based APIs, Cloud Technologies, Service Virtualization, Test Data Management, and Data Driven Decision making
• Working knowledge of the Agile/SAFe Lean enterprise concepts and best practices and how they are applied in the workplace
• Experience working within a matrix organization, collaborating with business stakeholders, user experience teams, project managers, product managers, developers and others
• Requires one of the following Agile Certifications:
• Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO)
• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO-PO)
• SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM)
• SAFe Agile Product Management (APM)

What You Will Be Doing

• Act proactively to consistently deliver on commitments with little supervision
• Analyze and communicate customer requirements to provide innovative solutions and recommend system, product and process enhancements
• Identifies, evaluates and introduces new approaches/technology to use in product development
• Explore alternative ways to view and solve problems to achieve results beyond what is required
• Leverage innovation tools, creative processes, and diverse cross-functional experts to generate ideas
• Focus on constantly improving processes, products, and services and exploring innovative ways to do the job
• Takes advantage of opportunities to try unique ways of doing things and tests promising ideas to find new solutions
• Asks provocative questions to understand current practices and the customer's experience before moving to problem solving
• Seeks to understand and experience the full array of stakeholders' (eg, internal partners, suppliers, customers) behavior, needs, concerns, and desires to unlock new opportunities for innovation
• Communicates potential benefits of new ideas to stakeholders
• Influences others by creating a participative, empowered environment to gain acceptance of ideas or plans using appropriate interpersonal styles and methods
• Takes immediate action when confronted with a problem or when made aware of a situation
• Work collaboratively with the Program/Product Managers to advise on the creation and partners to communicate product road map initiatives to the teams that result in great experiences for our customers
• Create novel solutions with measurable value for existing and potential customers (internal or external)
• Partner with vendor(s) and internal departments to ensure tasks are defined and documented with timely deliverables and within SLA
• Communicate with all levels of leadership, internal business partners and external vendor(s) regarding project status and production performance
• Ensure clear communication and coordination across business to manage the scope of each product launch for on-time delivery of key features
• Work with the Agile team to craft high quality customer-centric user stories that exceed customer expectations
• Responsible for leading the prioritization of the product backlog in partnership with product management
• Measure product performance using key information, processes and systems to ensure accountability for achieving business results

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