Senior Product Owner – Data

Role Overview

• Data Champion
• Champions data quality by establishing clear standards, partnering with data owners to prioritize remediation, and ensuring trusted, fit-for-purpose data that meets user needs and AAC business objectives
• Drives data usage and data literacy by facilitating collaboration across Business Delivery Teams, Business Stakeholders, and delivery partners to increase visibility, prioritize high-value data work, and enable understanding and adoption of data products
• Bridges the gap between long-term roadmaps and day-to-day execution, ensuring that APIs, data systems, and complex network dependencies are prioritized to meet evolving customer needs
• Creates, defines scope and prioritizes the data workstream including Azure DevOps features, user stories and defects based on the business value, customer needs, technical feasibility, resource utilization and most importantly the return of investment to the customer/business
• Serves as the primary liaison between the AAC business/customer and the development teams to effectively deliver data solutions throughout all AAC business capabilities
• Provides clear and effective communication related to the data roadmap, data optimizations opportunities (art of the possible), data workstream execution timelines and data quality
• Maintains an awareness of technology solutions related to data management through trainings, collaborations with other farm credit/financial resources and individual research and investigations.
• Maintains a strong understanding of AAC business processes and procedures as well as how the end users/customers use the data through AAC business capabilities
• Acts as the liaison between business stakeholders and the development team by translating the data vision into a clear roadmap, prioritized work items, and sprint plans
• Partners with business stakeholders, the development team, and delivery partners to align expectations and coordinate solution release timelines
• Enables the team to meet sprint commitments by surfacing and helping remove delivery impediments, and by continuously clarifying business needs, priorities, and timing expectations for the technology team
• Foster an environment that encourages collaboration, iterative continuous improvement, learning from obstacles and errors, and the utilization of team and stakeholder feedback to drive improvement of the development team’s value delivery effectiveness
• Adopts an active role in 24 X 7 support by prioritizing and facilitating short-term and long-term defects and outage resolutions

Requirements

• 5 or more years of experience as a product owner, data manager, data analyst, business analyst or other technical leadership role
• Bachelor’s degree is desired.
• Certification in Product Ownership preferred but not required.
• Strong understanding of technology tools and concepts related to data management
• Experience in Farm Credit and/or Financial Services related data management is desired, but not required
• Ability to build strong interpersonal relationships with business delivery teams, leadership, senior management, and internal/external stakeholders.
• Demonstrated proficiency in organizing and prioritizing work to meet deadlines
• Understanding of practical application of agile methodologies and other product delivery methodologies
• Proven ability to clearly define a set of requirements that pinpoint business challenges and identify technical, and business changes required to address them.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; ability to communicate clearly and concisely across technology and business teams.
• Ability to navigate and resolve disagreements constructively
• Demonstrated analytical and statistical skills to evaluate, prioritize and categorize data in various formats for reports.
• Proficient computer skills, Microsoft office suite, and applicable databases.

Tech Stack

• Azure

Benefits

• Commitment to agriculture and the communities we serve
• Family friendly work environment
• Investment in employee development
• Medical, Dental and Vision coverage
• Outstanding 401k – automatic 3% employer contribution, plus match up to 6%
• Generous Paid Time Off (Vacation accrued at 21 days annually, Sick Days accrued at 15 days annually, 12 paid holidays, plus 16 hours of volunteer time)
• Competitive Incentive Compensation Plan
• Disability & Life Insurance
• Employee mental, physical, and financial wellness programs