Position: Technical Product Owner and Project Manager – Finance Data Hub
Location: Cary, NC/Tampa, FL(Onsite)
Duration: Full Time
Job Description
Seeking a hands-on Project Manager and Product owner to lead a complex data technology transformation initiative. The ideal candidate will possess a strong blend of program management, product ownership, and stakeholder leadership skills to drive strategic products and enterprise programs from conception to execution.
This role will be responsible managing a multi-million-dollar program, aligning business and technology roadmaps, and leading cross-functional teams to deliver exceptional customer and business outcomes.
Product Owner
Product Vision & Strategy
- Define and execute the product vision, roadmap, business outcomes and strategy
- Drive adoption of enterprise data management practices and data-driven decision-making.
Product Backlog & Requirements Management
- Gather requirements from business and technology stakeholders
- Develop and maintain key project artifacts, including user stories, API specifications, process flows, prototype designs, and other functional documentation.
- Translate requirements into epics, features, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
- Manage Backlog - Create, groom, and prioritize user stories, epics, and acceptance criteria in the product backlog to reflect business value and changing needs
- Independently maintain and prioritize the product backlog based on business value and strategic objectives.
- Manage dependencies across multiple data and technology teams.
Stakeholder Management
- Build strong relationships with business and IT stakeholders.
- Communicate roadmap progress, risks, and delivery outcomes.
- Facilitate consensus across cross-functional teams and competing priorities.
- Partner with Scrum Masters, developers, UX designers, and stakeholders during daily standups, sprint planning, and reviews
Project Manger
Program & Project Leadership
- Lead the end-to-end delivery of the Finance Data Hub program across the development life cycle from initiation through production deployment including scope management, planning, resource allocation, dependency management, integration, and scheduling.
- Collaborate closely with track leads and Scrum master to maintain project plans, identify constraints and bottlenecks, and implement mitigation strategies.
- Monitor project progress, proactively identify risks and issues, manage dependencies, and drive timely resolution.
- Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, dependencies, resource plans, and budgets.
- Establish and participate in program governance, steering committee forums, and executive reporting mechanisms.
- Manage scope, timelines, risks, and deliverables across multiple workstreams.
Stakeholder Management
- Partner with business and IT stakeholders to ensure project objectives are achieved
- Translate business objectives into project deliverables and execution plans.
- Facilitate requirements gathering, prioritization, and decision-making workshops.
- Manage stakeholder expectations and communication across business and technology teams.
- Foster collaboration among business, product, engineering, and operational teams to ensure successful project outcomes and delivery excellence.
Project Governance & Communication
- Establish and maintain project governance processes, including resource capacity, schedule management, risk tracking, executive reporting, and cross-functional dependency management across Data Engineering, Platform, and Compliance teams.
- Drive data governance, data stewardship, and data ownership frameworks.
- Establish controls around financial data quality, lineage, reconciliation, and auditability.
- Ensure compliance with regulatory and financial reporting requirements.
- Collaborate with Risk, Compliance, and Internal Audit teams.
- Drive effective project communication and reporting across internal and external stakeholders, including preparation of executive-level updates and leadership communications.
- Foster collaboration among
Risk and Issue Management
- Proactively identify program risks and mitigation strategies.
- Manage RAID logs and dependency tracking.
- Escalate critical issues and facilitate resolution across teams.
- Ensure project health metrics are consistently monitored and reported.
Work and Technical Experience:
- 12+ years of total experience with at least 7+ years of hands-on Product Owner experience
- Strong project management experience across the SDLC leveraging Agile project management
- Proven experience managing multiple stakeholders and cross functional teams
- Proven analytical, communication and leadership skills
- Strong hands-on experience as a Product Owner in a scaled agile environment, including PI Planning, backlog refinement, cross-team dependency management, sprint execution and alignment with Product Management, RTEs, Scrum Masters, architects, and delivery teams.
- Include require direct ownership of backlog prioritization, story readiness, acceptance criteria, scope trade-offs, and acceptance or rejection of delivered work.
- Project delivery expertise on data engineering, data migration, data foundation buildout and data analytics using BI tools
- Expertise in project management processes and communication including tools like JIRA, Azure DevOps.
- Client stakeholder management to ensure program deliverables are achieved
- Conduct detailed impact analysis on new requirements to ensure all dependencies are addressed
- Tracking and delivering complex projects with multiple stakeholders
- Communication with business users to understand the requirements and complete associated requirements documentation for technical teams
Preferred Qualifications
- PMP, PRINCE2, Scrum Master (CSM), PMI-ACP and Product Owner Certification (CSPO/PSPO).
- Knowledge of insurance process flows
- Experience in corporate finance projects
- Experience with an ERP modernization initiative
- Finance domain expertise – General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Assets, etc.
- Others – Data Governance & Quality, Analytics and reporting enablement, experience on scalable integration with upstream (ERP and other source systems) and downstream systems
Key Skills
- Product Strategy & Roadmap Management
- Agile & Scrum Methodologies
- Project Planning, execution and reporting
- Stakeholder Management
- Risk & Issue Management
- Backlog Prioritization
- Business Analysis
- Budget & Resource Management
- Leadership & Team Management
- Communication & Presentation Skills
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