Job DescriptionWe are looking for a
Senior Technical Product Owner, Data who can lead teams with confidence, make decisions in ambiguous situations, and drive execution across matrixed data teams. You will oversee a complex environment spanning mission-critical SQL Server systems and a growing portfolio of cloud-native database applications, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities and long-term strategy.
This is a highly technical product owner role. The right candidate will have hands-on experience as a database developer or engineer, including writing queries, building pipelines, modeling data, and understanding the technical complexity behind the work.
Responsibilities:Product Ownership
- Own and maintain a prioritized product backlog for database development initiatives, balancing business value, technical debt, and platform reliability.
- Define and communicate a clear product vision and roadmap for the data platform, in alignment with organizational strategy.
- Write detailed, technically precise user stories, epics, and acceptance criteria that engineering teams can act on confidently.
- Make informed trade-off decisions on scope, quality, and delivery timelines.
Technical Leadership
- Serve as the primary liaison between database engineering teams and business stakeholders, translating complex technical concepts into clear business outcomes.
- Participate in architecture reviews, design discussions, and sprint ceremonies.
- Develop a strong understanding of the team's database technologies to credibly challenge and guide engineering decisions.
- Champion data quality, performance, and security standards across all database initiatives.
- Foster a collaborative, high-performing team environment by removing obstacles and supporting effective execution.
- Serve as a mentor to junior team members.
- Continuously seek opportunities to improve team processes within an agile environment.
Stakeholder Management
- Engage regularly with business partners, data consumers, and leadership to gather requirements and manage expectations.
- Drive alignment across cross-functional teams including data engineering, analytics, security, and infrastructure.
- Provide clear, regular reporting on roadmap progress, risks, and outcomes.
- Continuously seek opportunities to improve team processes within an agile environment.
Required Qualifications:- A Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience. 8 + years of experience in a Product Owner, Technical Product Manager, or equivalent role, with a meaningful portion supporting engineering or data platform teams.
- 2-3 years hands-on experience as a database developer, data engineer, or software engineer working directly with the technologies in this stack. Product ownership experience alone will not be sufficient; candidates must be able to speak with credibility from having built, not just managed.
- Deep, hands-on experience with Microsoft SQL Server including schema design, stored procedures, indexing strategies, and performance tuning in production environments.
- Working knowledge of cloud-based database platforms (e.g., Azure SQL, Snowflake, AWS RDS/Aurora) and the challenges of running both legacy and cloud systems in parallel.
- Demonstrated ability to lead without direct authority including driving decisions, resolving cross-team conflict, and pushing back on scope creep or technical drift without losing the room.
- Hands-on experience with Amazon Redshift for cloud data warehousing, including query optimization, distribution strategies, and workload management.
- Practical knowledge of data lake and lakehouse architectures - including storage layers, metadata management, and governance patterns (e.g., AWS S3/Glue, Delta Lake, or Apache Iceberg).
- Experience working with Power BI as a primary BI/reporting platform, including an understanding of data modeling, DAX, and how reporting requirements drive upstream database design decisions.
- Proven experience writing and refining backlogs in agile environments (Scrum, Kanban, or SAFe).
- Strong communication skills with the ability to engage credibly with both engineers and executives.
- Experience working in a scaled product environment with multiple development teams.
- Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), SAFe POPM, or equivalent certification.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience leading or contributing to a legacy-to-cloud migration (e.g., SQL Server to Azure SQL or Snowflake).
- Experience with data governance, data lineage, or regulatory compliance requirements (e.g., HIPAA, GDPR, SOC 2).
- Exposure to ELT/ETL pipelines and modern data stack tooling.
- Experience with tools such as Jira, Confluence, dbt, or similar.
Compensation:The target base pay for this role is $140,000-$150,000. Salary is commensurate with skills, qualifications, and experience.
Benefits:Our generous benefits offerings include: 3 weeks of paid vacation, 6 personal days, 12 sick days, 13 paid holidays, medical and dental plans, 401(k) plans with company match, backup childcare assistance, tuition assistance and more!
