Senior Product Owner (Functional) – Data & Analytics

Role Overview

The Senior Functional Product Owner (Data & Analytics) owns the end-to-end delivery of data products, analytics solutions, and enterprise data capabilities. The role bridges business, data engineering, and analytics teams to deliver trusted, high-quality data and actionable insights.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and own data product strategy, roadmap, and value realization • Translate business needs into KPIs, metrics, and data models • Design data flows from source systems to analytics consumption • Own backlog across data pipelines, models, and BI dashboards • Define data quality rules (accuracy, completeness, consistency) • Collaborate with data engineers, BI developers, and architects • Ensure delivery of high-quality dashboards and analytics • Lead UAT including reconciliation and KPI validation • Manage stakeholders and communicate data insights • Track product value via adoption, quality, and business impact • Enable advanced analytics use cases (AI/ML, predictive insights) • Mentor team members and promote data literacy

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 8-15+ years in Product Ownership / Business Analysis / Data roles • Strong understanding of data modeling and KPI frameworks • Experience in Agile/Scrum environments • Strong stakeholder management and communication skills

Technical Skills

• SQL knowledge (joins, aggregations) • Data warehousing concepts • BI tools (Power BI, Tableau, Looker) • Familiarity with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP)

Success Metrics

• Data accuracy and reliability • Adoption of analytics solutions • Reduction in data defects • Business impact and stakeholder trust

Key Responsibilities

1. Data Product Strategy & Vision

• Define and own the roadmap for data and analytics products (dashboards, data models, semantic layers, data services, AI agents )
• Align data initiatives with business strategy, KPIs, and enterprise data vision
• Identify high-impact use cases:
  • Operational reporting
  • Advanced analytics / AI use cases
  • Decision intelligence
• Prioritize based on data value, business ROI, and user impact

2. Data-Centric Requirement Management

• Lead discovery of data requirements across business domains
• Translate business questions into:
  • KPIs and metrics
  • Data models and datasets
  • Analytical outputs
• Define:
  • Metric logic (formulas, aggregations)
  • Data definitions (business glossary)
  • Transformation rules
• Ensure alignment on “single source of truth” metrics across the organization

3. Domain Expertise (Preferred)

• Experience in one or more domains:

• Procurement / Supply Chain

• Finance

• Digital platforms

• Data & Analytics

3. Functional Design of Data Solutions

• Design end-to-end data flows and functional architecture:
  • Source systems → Data pipelines → Data models → Visualization
• Define requirements for:
  • Data ingestion and processing
  • Data transformations and enrichment
  • Analytical datasets and semantic layers
• Collaborate with architects to align with data platform standards

4. Backlog Ownership for Data Products

• Own a multi-layered backlog, including:
  • Data ingestion pipelines
  • Data modeling (facts/dimensions)
  • BI dashboards
  • Data quality improvements
• Prioritize work considering:
  • Business value
  • Dependency on upstream systems
  • Data availability and quality
• Ensure all stories include:
  • Data logic
  • Acceptance criteria (data validation rules, thresholds)

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6. Collaboration with Data & Engineering Teams

• Work closely with:
  • Data Engineers (ETL/ELT pipelines)
  • Data Architects (data models, platforms)
  • BI Developers (visualization layers)
  • Data Scientists (ML/AI use cases)
• Translate business needs into clear, technically feasible requirements
• Ensure alignment between:
  • Functional requirements
  • Technical implementation
  • Performance and scalability expectations

7. Analytics & Insight Delivery

• Ensure delivery of high-value analytics solutions, such as:
  • Executive dashboards
  • Operational reporting
  • Self-service analytics
• Validate that insights are:
  • Accurate
  • Actionable
  • Business-friendly
• Drive adoption of data-driven decision-making

8. UAT, Validation & Data Testing

• Define comprehensive data validation strategies, including:
  • Source-to-target reconciliation
  • KPI validation
  • Historical comparisons
• Lead UAT with business teams to ensure:
  • Trust in data outputs
  • Business usability of analytics
• Ensure all data products meet acceptance thresholds

9. Stakeholder Management (Data-Focused)

• Engage with:
  • Business leaders
  • Functional SMEs
  • Data governance bodies
• Translate technical data concepts into business insights and narratives
• Manage expectations on:
  • Data availability
  • Data limitations
  • Delivery timelines

10. Value Realization & Performance Tracking

• Define and monitor success metrics for data products, such as:
  • Adoption rate of dashboards
  • Data quality improvements
  • Business impact (revenue, cost savings, efficiency)
• Establish feedback loops for continuous improvement

11. Advanced Analytics Enablement

• Identify opportunities for:
  • Predictive analytics
  • Prescriptive insights
  • AI/ML integration
• Translate business problems into data science use cases
• Ensure outputs are integrated into business workflows

12. Mentorship & Capability Building

• Mentor junior Product Owners and Data Analysts
• Drive best practices in:
  • Data requirement definition
  • KPI standardization
  • Data product thinking
• Promote data literacy across business teams

Experience

• 8-15+ years in:
  • Product Ownership / Business Analysis
  • Data & Analytics / BI environments
• Proven experience delivering data-driven products at scale

Core Skills

• Strong understanding of:
  • Data modeling (facts, dimensions, star schema)
  • KPIs, metrics, and analytical thinking
• Expertise in:
  • Requirement gathering for data products
  • Writing data-focused user stories and acceptance criteria
• Strong stakeholder management and communication

Technical Skills (Expected)

• Working knowledge of:
  • SQL (joins, aggregations, validations)
  • Data warehousing concepts
• Familiarity with:
  • Cloud data platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP)
  • BI tools (Power BI, Tableau, Looker)
• Understanding of:
  • ETL/ELT pipelines
  • Data governance frameworks

Success Metrics

• Accuracy and reliability of data products
• Adoption of analytics solutions by business users
• Reduction in data issues and rework
• Delivery of measurable business outcomes
• Stakeholder satisfaction and trust in data

What Differentiates This Role

• Owns data as a product, not just features
• Focuses on metrics, insights, and business value, not just UI/functionality
• Bridges business context with deep data understanding
• Drives enterprise-wide data consistency and trust

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