Job Purpose

Devonshire Recruiting & Consulting Partners is seeking an experienced Senior Data Product Owner to join the Customer Data Strategy & Transformation team. The ideal candidate is a leader who is responsible for the vision and implementation of improvements to our cohesive customer data platform and end-user data products.

This role has a high and important visibility that will drive the definition of business requirements, prioritize initiatives according to business needs and value, and advance data development and deployment to create large-scale value for our customers.

This is an excellent opportunity for a dynamic and enthusiastic data practitioner who can manage the requirements of numerous stakeholders and execute change and results. Activities include feature prioritization, opportunity seeker, strong technical, and rollout planning for major product updates.

Key Responsibilities

• Learn the company’s Customer strategy, and become acquainted with internal business processes and objectives.
• Translate business initiatives into data product requirements with acceptance insights. Organize into data environment and practical application backlog and roadmap.
• Own and prioritize the backlog. Align priorities to desired business outcomes, considering readiness, cost and/or savings implications, and solution longevity.
• Drive design and development in collaboration with Customer IT, leveraging agile development approach and feedback loop. Set the quality standard for technical delivery. Push demos and retrospectives to validate progress and quality.
• Expand and track deployment and adoption by applications and end-users. Develop and execute against adoption KPIs with business stakeholders.
• Support defining minimum viable product (MVP) and effectively negotiate tradeoffs of conflicting priorities based on value to the business and customer.
• Align non-functional requirements (security, performance, etc) to functional requirements to ensure end-to-end best practices are delivered in each data product.
• Bring strategic data and execution leadership to cross-functional business and technical teams.
• Become an authoritative source and subject matter expert of the company’s Customer data ecosystem.
• Stay up to date with market intelligence, technologies e.g. AMI and clean energy, and utility trends and opportunities. Apply learning experiences to the data roadmap.

Qualifications

• 8-10 years of work experience in delivering data products
• 3+ years of data governance experience is a plus
• BA/BS in Business or STEM discipline
• MS, MBA, or advanced degree is a plus
• Experience working in an agile environment using scrum methodologies
• Experience working with large-scale cloud data warehouse structures such as Azure, Snowflake
• Experience working with master data management solutions such as Reltio, Informatica
• Experience working with automated data catalog and quality tools
• Ability to explore data sources and validate data outputs
• Proficient with data querying with languages such as SQL and Python
• Experience with JIRA and Confluence or equivalent tools
• Strong collaboration skills. You partner well with others to solve problems and actively elicit and incorporate input from various sources.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience in communicating recommendations to senior business leaders.