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Senior Principal Consultant; Product Owner/BA
Location: NYC
Contract

Job description
Responsibilities
• Develop and maintain a product roadmap that outlines the development and release schedule for data products, including managing backlog and assisting with planning upcoming pipeline.
• Translate business requirements into detailed data, product specifications, and technical requirements.
• Define product requirements and work closely with your engineering and design counterparts to bring products to life.
• Work closely with data engineering, stakeholders, and platform teams to develop and launch data products.
• Prioritize features and enhancements based on customer feedback, market needs, and business goals.
• Collaborate with a team to develop comprehensive documentation for data products, including user guides, technical specifications, and FAQs, including ensuring data mapping, lineage, definitions, and controls are documented in the data management tooling solution.
• Co-develop data product lifecycle, from ideation and prototyping to testing, deployment, and support.
• Understand the integration of data from various sources into data products.
• Ensure products are scalable, reliable, secure, and compliant with industry standards and regulations.
• Develop and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure product success and impact, including analyzing product performance data to identify areas for improvement and make recommendations for optimization.
• Regularly communicate product updates, strategic vision, and performance metrics to stakeholders, ensuring alignment and transparency, including conveying complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Lead and inspire cross-functional teams in the creation and delivery of data products, fostering collaboration, innovation, and a commitment to excellence.
• Collaborate with engineering managers, solution architects, and business analysts to design high-impact data solutions.
• Collaborate with stakeholders, including product owners, business line SMEs, and analysts, to gather technical requirements and translate them into actionable user stories with clear acceptance criteria.
• Participate in the end-to-end product development lifecycle, from concept to launch, ensuring timely and high-quality delivery.
• Maintain alignment between technical development and business objectives, effectively communicating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Qualifications we seek in you!
Minimum Qualifications
• Minimum of 10+ years of Product Owner/Business Analyst experience in an Agile environment and minimum 5+ year experience with SQL programming or any other programming language.
• Prior success developing and bringing net new products to market.
• Strong understanding of the business intelligence market and related technologies (e.g. data warehousing, dimensional data modeling, SQL, data visualization)
• Experience with BI tools (Power BI, Tableau) and data analytics, including data modeling, ETL processes, and SQL, this is must.
• Effective delegator with proven management of cross-functional teams without direct supervision
• Ability to manage conflicting priorities and can differentiate between distractions and the roadblocks that can impact goals
• Ability to drive consensus among stakeholders, manage expectations, and build strong relationships
• Designed and implemented frameworks, processes, and metrics for a data office/function within banking services.
• Strong understanding of data technologies, integration, and architecture, including familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), modern data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks), and data processing frameworks (Hadoop, Spark).
• Banking and Finance Domain experience, strongly preferred and demonstrated knowledge in financial services process/workflow, including data management, card transactions, core banking deposits and customer processing, loan processing, payments, and fraud management.
• Experience working with business intelligence or enterprise / corporate performance management applications supporting business customers, strongly preferred
• Proven ability to lead and execute responsibilities simultaneously
• Ability to translate strategic directions and business objectives into goals
• Know how to break down key features into appropriate user stories
• Experience running high-impact initiatives within the organization
• Excellent verbal and written communication.