The Technical Product Owner (Data & Analytics) role acts as a key liaison between client stakeholders and delivery teams on data programmes/projects, ensuring that business requirements are clearly defined, prioritized, and delivered in alignment with Agile delivery principles.
Requirements
- Write detailed user stories and acceptance criteria by breaking down Epics for integration and reporting use cases.
- Lead feature / data product kickoffs to ensure business context and delivery alignment.
- Facilitate estimation sessions and story readiness to support sprint planning.
- Collaborate closely with developers and testers to validate 'done' stories and ensure Client sign-off.
- Partner with technical leads, client SMEs to ensure requirements are accurate, complete, and technically feasible.
- Support the Client in managing and prioritizing the product backlog to ensure alignment with business goals.
- Conduct backlog refinement sessions with the team to clarify requirements, dependencies, and priorities.
- Ensure stories meet the team's definition of ready before sprint planning.
- Track and communicate backlog health and sprint progress through Agile tools (e.g., Jira).
- Identify and escalate risks or blockers impacting backlog items or delivery flow.
- Maintain visibility of dependencies and ensure alignment between epics, features, and stories.
- Act as the liaison between client stakeholders and delivery teams, ensuring clear communication of needs and priorities.
- Support stakeholder alignment and facilitate sign-offs at key delivery stages.
- Work collaboratively with Account Managers, Program and Project Managers, Tech Leads, Developers and Testers to address client pain points and deliver outcomes.
- Support data product to data source mapping activities and maintain alignment with the data catalogue.
- Create and review target-to-source field mappings for individual data products.
- Understand and articulate data reconciliation, data quality (DQ), and transformation rules within the medallion architecture for individual data products.
- Facilitate Agile ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint planning, retrospectives, and show & tell sessions.
- Support story validation and sign-off activities during sprints.
- Maintain and communicate delivery roadmaps on Jira or similar tools.
- Contribute to continuous improvement discussions and team retrospectives to enhance delivery health.
- Track and report team health metrics through retrospectives and delivery KPIs.
- Produce end-of-sprint reports summarizing story progress, carried-over items, and upcoming priorities.
- Support automated reporting and ensure client transparency on progress and blockers.
- Collaborate with account and delivery leadership (PO, Program/Project Manager, Account Manager, Tech Lead) as part of the Client Account Team (CAT).
- Provide analytical insights into client pain points and support identification of improvement or growth opportunities.
Benefits
- Private health insurance
- Work-from-home budget
- Company MacBook
- Dedicated learning time
- Access to top-notch resources
- Knowledge-sharing culture
- Paid holiday
