Job Description
Job Description: The Product Owner will serve as the execution link between product strategy and data engineering delivery, translating requirements into well-defined user stories and guiding the team through each sprint from refinement to release. This role sits on a team responsible for the company's centralized data platform and the foundation for multiple client-facing data products, including dataset delivery feeds, analytics and reporting solutions, and audience intelligence tools for financial institutions. The platform ingests and models data from core banking, payments, digital banking, and CRM systems, forming the foundational layer that powers a broader suite of data intelligence products across the organization. Working alongside the Product Manager, this role is expected to contribute data engineering domain knowledge and modern data stack awareness. The right candidate understands current architectural patterns and industry trends well enough to evaluate tradeoffs, ask good questions during technical planning, and bring informed perspective into prioritization decisions. Responsibilities Partner with the Product Manager and stakeholders to define and maintain business requirements, use cases, and acceptance criteria Develop a working understanding of the data platform architecture, ingestion patterns, data models, and governance frameworks, sufficient to scope work accurately and ask the right questions Translate product and business requirements into well-scoped Epics and User Stories; maintain a healthy, prioritized product backlog Lead sprint planning and refinement sessions; work with engineers, analysts, and QA to scope work and estimate effort Collaborate with technical leads to ensure solutions meet platform standards, data quality requirements, and governance policies Write SQL queries and data transformation scripts to validate data, explore datasets, and support acceptance testing Create clear acceptance criteria for QA to use in functional a
