Senior Data Product Owner

Our organisation is a leading international business with a strong focus on using data, analytics and AI to improve decision-making, accelerate growth and increase operational efficiency.

Our data function is transforming data maturity across the organisation, empowering colleagues through improved data fluency and supporting a culture built around informed, customer-focused decisions. Commercial focus, continuous improvement and product-led delivery are central to our approach.

You’ll join a collaborative, multidisciplinary data function working across Data Engineering, Data Product, Data Management, Data Visualisation and Data Science, with a shared focus on delivering sustainable, high-quality data products aligned to organisational strategy, governance and business priorities.

Job Summary

We’re looking for an experienced Data Product Owner / Technical Delivery Manager to play a key role in turning business priorities into valuable, deliverable data products.

This is a senior product-delivery position that sits at the intersection of business needs and technical execution. You’ll own and manage a prioritised backlog, coordinate multidisciplinary delivery teams and ensure initiatives move effectively from discovery through to release and live service.

Working closely with the Data Product Manager, you’ll make informed decisions around scope, priorities and sequencing while balancing business value, delivery risk, technical sustainability and operational readiness. Your work will directly contribute to improving the organisation’s data and reporting capabilities and creating long-term value from its data estate.

Key Responsibilities

• Own a prioritised, delivery-ready backlog that balances measurable value, user needs, risk, urgency, technical dependencies, capacity and long-term product sustainability.
• Translate business problems into clearly defined epics and user stories, including appropriate context, acceptance criteria, dependencies and expected outcomes.
• Maintain traceability from initial requests through delivery, acceptance and the realisation of business value.
• Lead end-to-end delivery planning and coordination across multidisciplinary teams, managing milestones, capacity, dependencies, risks, issues, blockers and scope changes.
• Provide clear and timely progress updates and decision information to relevant stakeholders.
• Coordinate technical discovery, design assurance, testing and release-readiness activities, ensuring appropriate technical and operational considerations are addressed.
• Ensure architecture, security, data governance, non-functional requirements, operational controls and residual risks are appropriately considered throughout delivery.
• Connect business priorities with technical execution, facilitating effective decisions and constructive challenge across business and technology teams.
• Manage delivery partners and dependencies to maintain momentum and accountability.
• Support the transition of new capabilities into business-as-usual operations and promote effective, collaborative and continuously improving ways of working.

Qualifications & Skills

Product & Delivery

• Proven experience as a Product Owner, Technical Product Owner, Delivery Manager or in a comparable product-delivery role.
• Strong experience of backlog management, including writing effective user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Strong understanding of Agile delivery, estimation, planning, dependency management, risk management, testing, release readiness and transition into live service.
• Working knowledge of architecture, integrations, environments, security, data governance and non-functional requirements.
• Sufficient technical credibility to identify constraints, challenge assumptions and explain delivery trade-offs effectively.

Professional Skills

• Strong judgement and an outcome-focused approach, with the ability to make clear decisions around scope, priority and sequencing.
• Excellent communication, facilitation and stakeholder-management skills across business, technical and senior audiences.
• Confidence to constructively challenge, influence stakeholders and manage competing priorities.
• Highly organised and accountable, with the ability to lead complex delivery through ambiguity.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to remove blockers while maintaining delivery momentum and quality.
• A continuous-improvement mindset and a collaborative approach to working across organisational boundaries.

Experience

• Demonstrable experience leading product delivery within a complex organisation, with accountability for backlog management, planning and end-to-end coordination from discovery through release and support.
• A track record of influencing across organisational boundaries and resolving complex dependencies.
• Experience balancing business value, delivery risk, technical sustainability and operational readiness.

Preferred

• Relevant accreditation in Product Ownership, Scrum, Agile delivery, project delivery or a similar discipline.
• Experience using Jira, Confluence or comparable collaboration and documentation tools.
• Knowledge of data platforms, reporting and analytics products.
• Understanding of data governance and data quality principles.
• Experience of supplier management or business-as-usual product operations.

We believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce creates stronger teams and better outcomes. We’re committed to creating an environment where people can do their best work while maintaining a healthy balance between professional and personal life.

Our hybrid working approach provides a balance of collaboration, structure and social interaction alongside the independence and flexibility of working remotely.

• Performance-related bonus.
• Contributory pension.
• 25 days' annual leave, plus additional company days.
• A four-week paid sabbatical after every five years of service.
• Private medical cover for employees and their families.
• Opportunities for professional development and continuous learning.
• A flexible, collaborative and inclusive working environment.
• The opportunity to work on high-impact data, analytics and technology initiatives within a complex international organisation.

Equal Opportunity Statement

We are an equal opportunities employer and are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace which values and benefits from the diversity of the workforce we hire. We offer reasonable accommodation at every stage of the application and interview process.

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