Technical Product Owner

**Role Overview**:
The Technical Product Owner (Data & Analytics) acts as the 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. This role blends analytical thinking, stakeholder engagement, and hands-on collaboration within a data and analytics-focused development team and client.

**Anticipated start date**: On or after December 2025.

**Key Responsibilities**:
**Requirements Management**

- 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.

**Backlog Management**

- 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.

**Stakeholder Engagement**

- 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.

**Data Analysis**

- 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.

**Agile Process Support**

- 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.

**Reporting and Success Metrics**

- 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.

**Account Growth Support**

- 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.

**Key Competencies - Senior Consultant**

- Delivery: Owns delivery of specific workstreams; ensures outputs meet client and project goals.

- Problem Solving: Addresses complex technical challenges; introduces improvements.

- Client Engagement: Manages day-to-day client relationships; translates technical details into business value.

- Business Acumen: Connects technical work to business outcomes.

- Teamwork & Collaboration: Collaborates across functions; provides technical guidance to peers.

- Leadership & Mentoring: Coaches junior consultants; shares expertise.

- Practice Knowledge / Development: Contributes to best practices and reusable assets.

- Commercial Awareness: Manages scope and effort efficiently.

**Skills & Experience**:
**Essential**:

- Proven experience as a Business Analyst or Senior BA in Agile delivery environments (Scrum or Kanban) for 5+ years

- Skilled in user story writing, backlog management, and stakeholder facilitation.

- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with the ability to connect business and technical contexts.

- Proficiency with Jira, Confluence, and Agile reporting tools.

- Excellent communication, influencing, and presentation skills.

- Strong experience in data and analytics projects, including data lineage, transformation, and quality.

- Travel requirements for this role are mandated by the need of the client and depending on the client some travel is required.

- Excellent knowledge of SQL

- Exposure to BI/reporting and DWH integration use cases

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