Tech Stack
Amazon RedshiftAWSAzureBigQueryCloudCyber SecurityOracleSQL
About the role
- Provide product vision and delivery of clients’ data products and catalog implementations
- Translate business outcomes into a practical roadmap, partner with engineering, and drive adoption of data governance capabilities on agile project teams for federal government clients in the DC metro area
- 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 relative field
- 5+ years as a Product Owner/Business Analyst in data management/governance; 2+ years delivering catalog/metadata solutions
- Strong 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 Jira/Azure DevOps; 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