Data Warehouse Product Owner

Job Title: Data Warehouse Product Owner

No of Positions:1

Position Type:Contract

Location:Chicago, IL

Job Description:
Responsibilities:
•Manages the product backlog by creating user stories and prioritizing items based on documented strategy/roadmap and input from stakeholders.
•Partners with lead/team/stakeholders for product to define and document objective/scope for each product/release/feature. Conducts events and/or ceremonies as needed to obtain objective/scope.
•Advocates and evangelizes product/feature value.
•Keep stakeholder(s) and team engaged with consistent and incremental delivery.
•Identifies and tracks resource needs and assignment for product/features. Works with product lead or leadership to establish resource lists for project. Communicates needs and ensures allocation for efforts.
•Maintains and facilitates expense management process as needed for products. This can include reviewing and approving time for contract resources fully allocated to product, providing forecasts for expenses specific to product/projects and tracking actuals to budget.
•Judges and informs stakeholder(s), leadership, supporting teams (QA, IT operations) and product team on product/feature delivery and projected milestones based on backlog, input for lead for product and prior experience.
•Oversees development progress and creates artifacts (roadmaps, wireframes, requirements, stories, templates, process diagrams, kanban boards, etc..) following established standards.
•Communicates and documents any change to scope/objectives of product.
•Identifies and maintains list of dependencies for products. Collaborates with internal or external to IT departments as they are identified.
•Works with team to refine/improve the development planning process. Advocate for the team any changes to development planning process to leadership to improve product delivery.
•Works with team and IT operations to create product support plans, documentation and communication.
•Ensures product/feature when released is supported by appropriate teams/personnel.
•Serves as primary contact for ongoing maintenance/support for products.
•May function as the analytics lead for their product.

Qualifications:
•Minimum of 7 years of strong experience in product owner or project management roles with Agile methodologies.
•Experience with change management. This individual will be partnering with stakeholders and IT to ensure their product is accepted, valued and supported at ABC.
•Experience in delivering Data engineering /Data Warehouse products/projects is mandatory.
•Knowledge of common analytics solutions like Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence.
•Excellent written and verbal communication skills and strong cognitive ability especially with respect to understanding, documenting and describing complex technical subjects.
•Demonstrate strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
•Ability to prioritize effectively and work with larger teams.
•Outstanding communication, presentation, and leadership skills.

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