The opportunity

The selected candidate will:

Successfully execute tasks to agreed schedule, budget and scope using Agile methodologies (Lean, DevOps, Scrum) supporting firms Data objectives
Exhibits behaviors of an Agile Leader with an Agile Mindset developing, building and operating firms common components supporting the data framework
Challenges the old norms of development in order to improve performance in areas of quality, predictability, flow and velocity
Serves as the primary interface to newly onboarded engagement teams and serves as the POC for all escalations
Work with support on transition and long term ownership and maintenance
Focus on ever improving team revenue goals, dynamics and performance. Helps the team manage interpersonal conflicts, challenges and opportunities for growth.
Understands industry trends in Data extraction, ingestion, transformation, integration and governance. Supports building product roadmap in alignment with customer needs and requirements.
Communicates with management and outside stakeholders. Helps protect the team from uncontrolled injection of work
Enables close cooperation across all roles and functions; addresses resource issues and deviation from Agile practices
Applies Lean-Agile practices, such built-in quality, Kanban, continuous integration and continuous deployment
Work within defined governance processes
Manage external contracts and suppliers, where required
Will be responsible for development and maintenance of product documentation (user guide, support guide, internal technical presentations)
Ensures that quality project standards are met as prescribed by  Client Technology through the effective implementation or use of approved processes, methodologies and deliverables

Responsibilities, Qualifications, Certifications – External

Your key responsibilities

Defines and manages the product lifecycle needs, including market requirements, product release plans, user stories, release criteria, product launch and organization readiness activities
Supports the development and execution of the product vision, strategy and roadmap for a product or set of products within a product family, communicating the vision and goals of the product to internal and external stakeholders
Develops the product positioning and contributes to product pricing decisions
Creates and maintains the product backlog, prioritizing needs and mapping out project dependencies to inform the necessary sequence of development
Establishes the commercial and business case for product enhancement, continuously seeking the expansion and improvement of existing products per customer requirements
Partners with senior internal stakeholders and customers to validate requirements and priorities through various forums, working closely with engineering, sales, marketing and support to ensure business case and customer satisfaction goals are met​

Skills and attributes for success

Exceptional knowledge of the software development cycle and project management methodologies
Has an expert understanding of product development and delivery frameworks, especially Agile framework, DevOps practices and services
Strong experience preferred on various ETL/ELT, data governance and data security topics
Experience in managing and directing a highly technical feature development team
Experience with budgeting and financial reporting for multiple products / services

To qualify for the role, you must:

Have Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field preferred
Have more than 7 years of relevant work experience
Be able to handle ambiguity and able to move forward with imperfect information and get things done in a rapidly changing environment
Be able to communicate feedback to the leadership team to improve and evolve the quality of products
Cultivate and build relationships across business & IT and industry to gather intelligence and bring insight about the wider enterprise picture and enable the leveraging of emerging industry standards and approaches within our client
Oversee the development and implementation of an ongoing communication plan to educate stakeholders on the purpose and benefits of Product Management
Have experience and ability to define and develop cloud based products and services, including reusable data domain-specific technologies on Microsoft Azure cloud environments
Have extensive work experience in a product ownership or related role
Have experience managing and delivering results through others
Have experience of working with engineering and design teams
Have extensive work experience in a professional services industry, preferred

A self-starter, independent-thinker, curious and creative person with ambition and passion