Data Product Owner - London - Hybrid

Data Product Owner

London

Hybrid – 3 days pw onsite

£50,000 - £65,000

We have an exciting opportunity for a Data Product Owner working for a unique customer centric within the financial services industry, which is undergoing the biggest transformation it has ever seen. The Data Product Owner will join a newly formed data team. This role will ensure systems are fit for purpose today and ready for the challenges of the future, providing a bridge between operational teams and the technology department and facilitating better data decision making for its customers.

Responsibilities:

• Play a vital role in owning and developing the department’s internal systems and processes to ensure they deliver on key business needs.
• Ensure products are developed in-line with overall strategy and roadmap and communicate these with both the technical development teams and business stakeholders.
• Own and coordinate the requirement gathering, development process, testing, training and communication in relation to system maintenance and development.
• Co-ordinate and collaborate closely with business SMEs (Subject Matter Experts) to ensure products deliver successfully on their need’s; successfully gathering and acting on user feedback and effectively communicating on updates and issues.
• Collaborate with key business stakeholders from a variety of teams, including Analytics, Data Engineering, Pricing, Risk, and Economic Capital to develop backlog and priorities in-line with business requirements.
• Proactively investigate and understand issues and pain points with the systems or processes, often delving deep into the data to work out why it happened and how to make it better.
• Work closely with the Data Specialist to ensure the systems and processes are in-line with the data governance framework and ensure effective management of the data within this area.
• Champion our data products both internally and externally and act as the primary point of contact for product-related queries

What you will bring:

• Experience working as a Product Owner or comparable role
• Experience of Agile, Scrum or other project/product management methodologies
• Background in data analytics, business intelligence, or software development
• Have a good understanding of data technologies, such as databases, data warehouse and data lakes and be inspired by the prospect of leveraging new technologies and data to provide customer value
• Experience using Confluence, JIRA or other task management and requirement gathering tools.
• Possess a teamwork-focused mindset and be comfortable with delegation, conflict resolution, and working with different personalities and emotions.
• Comfortable in engaging with multiple stakeholders (technical and non-technical) at all levels of seniority and function.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to influence others.

On top of the salary the successful candidate will receive a generous range of benefits which include: an annual discretionary bonus, non-contributory pension, 28 days holiday, PMI, dedicated time and budget for training and development, plus many more.

Candidates must be based in the UK and hold a British/EU Passport or Indefinite Leave to Remain.

Unfortunately sponsorship cannot be offered for this role.

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InterQuest Group is acting as an employment agency for this vacancy. InterQuest Group is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of age, disability, gender, religion/belief, race, marriage, civil partnership, pregnancy, maternity, sex or sexual orientation. Please make us aware if you require any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.