Data Product Owner
Analytica
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: District of Columbia • Washington • United States
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About the role
- Regularly interface with clients at numerous levels of an organization—project managers, stakeholders, end-users, data owners, analysts, IT groups, management, and executives—to drive the delivery of data management and governance products
- Own and prioritize the backlog for data product rollouts; convert business outcomes into epics, user stories, and clear acceptance criteria.
- Lead requirements gathering via stakeholder interviews, workshops, and process mapping; reconcile competing needs and set release priorities.
- Define end‑to‑end test scenarios (UAT) for metadata ingestion, lineage, search, glossary/stewardship workflows, coordinate test execution and defect triage.
- Partner with data engineering/architecture to design connectors, curation pipelines, and governance workflows that are scalable, secure, and compliant.
- Drive change management and training; track adoption KPIs (catalog coverage, active users, glossary completeness, steward SLAs) and report progress to sponsors.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in related field
- 3+ years as a Product Owner/Business Analyst in data management/governance
- Knowledge of metadata management, data lineage, business glossaries/stewardship, data quality, and policy/governance frameworks (e.g., DAMA‑DMBOK); awareness of GDPR/CCPA.
- Proven Agile/Scrum execution using tools such as Jira; experience in writing user stories and BDD‑style acceptance criteria.
- Experience collaborating with data engineers on ingestion from platforms like Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery, AWS Redshift, Oracle, or SQL Server; basic SQL for validation is a plus.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills; able to translate technical concepts into business value in client-facing environments.
- Must be a Green Card holder or U.S. Citizen to obtain the Public Trust clearance.
Benefits
- employer paid health care
- training and development funds
- 401k match
- opportunities for bonuses
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
data managementdata governancemetadata managementdata lineagebusiness glossariesdata qualityAgileScrumSQLuser stories
Soft Skills
stakeholder managementcommunicationrequirements gatheringchange managementcollaborationproblem-solvingprioritizationtrainingdefect triageprocess mapping