Data Product Owner - Ottawa, Canada - EDC

EDC

Verified Company

Ottawa, Canada

2 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Data Product Owner C

Posting Date:
Apr 17, 2023, 3:17:42 PM

Primary Location:
Ontario-Ottawa

Job Type:
Permanent

Schedule:
Full-time

Export Development Canada (EDC) is a financial Crown corporation dedicated to helping Canadian businesses make an impact at home and abroad.

EDC offers financial products and knowledge to help Canadian businesses confidently enter new markets, reduce financial risk, and grow their business.

When you join our team, you'll be helping Canadian businesses learn the endless possibilities that open to them through export and help bring their vision, passion, and innovation to the world.

Your knowledge and expertise will support more than 25,000 Canadian businesses and their customers in as many as 200 markets worldwide.

You'll work amongst the best and brightest in an inclusive, collaborative environment that fosters professional development and success.

And you'll know that you're making an impact every day - for businesses, for Canada and for the people you work with.

Are you ready to make an impact? Join EDC, recognized as a Top 100 and Top Family-Friendly Employer, as we take on the risk so Canadian businesses can take on the world.

Team & Job Overview

As EDC aims to be the leader in helping all Canadian exporters go, grow and succeed internationally, the Enterprise Data Operations & Technology (EDOT) group in EDC continues to play a critical role in enabling leaders to make better data-driven decisions by providing holistic business reporting, advanced analytics for actionable insights.

We have identified a need to undertake a digital transformation.

This transformation effort will help us continue to elevate our core data management capabilities and transform how we develop and leverage data-driven insights efficiently, at scale.

To better position ourselves for success through the transformation, the Data Assets Sustainment family is seeking a Product Owner to execute on the strategic vision of the overall data family.

This role is accountable for support of Tier-3 activities for Data Warehouse and Enterprise Data Platform.

Additionally, this role will engage and collaborate with other EDOT partners and represent clients' interest via collaboration with Enterprise Data Solutions Delivery (EDSD).

Discipline Summary

The Data Product Owner (PO) is responsible for understanding the needs of the business supported by their platforms and systems, translating those needs into a strategic technology/product roadmap, effectively prioritizing the backlog of work required to maximize value of the technology/product to their customer and accepts the deployment of these deliverables into production.

Advocates for the customer and end user and is ultimately accountable for the product produced.

Uses a systematic and scientific approach to assess and continuously improve the fit of existing and new platform solutions in meeting customer needs and provides on-going platform/product management throughout the platform/product lifecycle including retirement of solutions.

Collaborates effectively with a wide range of EDC employees and external business and technology stakeholders, understanding dependencies across stakeholders in order to properly coordinate and deliver platform results that fit with customer and end user expectations.

Maintains a strong relationship with their stakeholders and business sponsor, demonstrating a strong understanding of business priorities and aligns investments that are both sustainable and will drive a clear ROI in direct support of those priorities.

Participates in a culture of continuous improvement using Lean/Agile approaches and is ultimately accountable for decisions regarding priority, business value, and functionality for all the work done by the Agile development team.

Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority.

Key Responsibilities

Develop Product vision, Operational Key Responsibilities (OKRs) and synchronize them with the Family. Communicate these clearly and effectively with stakeholders
Define the business value and develop business cases for the Product and support messaging, communication and customer outreach as necessary
Build relationships with Business/IT stakeholders regularly to gather feedback and refine the future of the Product factoring in business priority, pacing, risk, funding and scope parameters
Scope the Minimal Viable Product (MVP) considering existing resource constraints and sustained product development
Build Product Backlog (user stories), prioritize the backlog based on business value, and continuously keep the backlog up to date
Identify and raise dependencies and roadblocks to Family PO, Architecture Owners (AOs) with support of the Scrum Master and help resolve them if needed.
Collaborate with AOs and support the optimization of technology debt for the squad ensure the stories addressing technical debt are