Kforce Inc is seeking a Product Owner in Boston, MA. The Product Owner - Electric Data Management (EDM) is responsible for defining and delivering data ingestion frameworks and data products that support Transmission and Distribution (T&D) operations.
Responsibilities:
- Define the roadmap for T&D data ingestion platforms and data products
- Establish reusable data product standards (e.g., feeder health, transformer performance, outage impact, DER visibility)
- Align with grid modernization initiatives, ADMS evolution, and digital twin strategy
- Drive transition from project-based integrations to product-based data capabilities
- Own end-to-end ingestion strategy across:
- Defining ingestion patterns (batch, streaming, near real-time)
- Ensuring API and event-driven architecture standards
- Prioritizing data validation, reconciliation, and monitoring capabilities
- Driving observability and lineage for operational data
- Define and maintain backlog for grid-facing data products
- Write clear user stories with measurable acceptance criteria
- Collaborate with data engineers, architects, and operations stakeholders
- Ensure Each Data Product Has
- Defined consumers
- Clear SLAs (latency, quality, availability)
- Business KPIs
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Partner With
- Transmission Operations
- Distribution Engineering
- Asset Management
- Grid Planning
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience in electric Transmission or Distribution domain
- 3+ years of experience as Product Owner, Data Product Owner, or similar
- Strong understanding of T&D data flows and grid operations
- Experience with Agile delivery frameworks
- Snowflake, Matillion or Data Integration expertise