Product Owner

2 weeks ago

Waterloo, Canada Sun Life Full time

You are as unique as your background, experience and point of view. Here, you’ll be encouraged, empowered and challenged to be your best self. You'll work with dynamic colleagues - experts in their fields - who are eager to share their knowledge with you. Your leaders will inspire and help you reach your potential and soar to new heights. Every day, you'll have new and exciting opportunities to make life brighter for our Clients - who are at the heart of everything we do. Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world.

We are looking for a bright, energetic, and ambitious individual to join our Data Engineering Team.

This is a fantastic opportunity to work with amazing teams and help them achieve their vision to deliver actionable information from data to enable business outcomes.

You will work with business stakeholders, IT, data science, and data engineering teams to develop a vision of what they want to achieve and the strategy and plans to get there, while at the same time working with cutting edge data technologies.

Your experience as a Product Owner means translating and prioritizing business needs to user stories and roadmaps. Your ultimate job is to ensure value comes out of your data product. You will take responsibility for the business success in terms of their dealings with your data product(s).

You are a passionate advocate for your stakeholders and will drive the deliverables to completion. Once completed, you will be responsible for data governance practices within your products, including metadata documentation and data quality, as well as facilitating resolution of those data issues. Your balance between technical and business knowledge and soft skills will be Key.

**What will you do?**
- Develop a deep understanding of stakeholders’ business needs and outcomes
- Work in collaboration with Business, IT, Data Engineering, and Data Science teams to design and deliver products that provide business value and drive downstream efficiencies
- Gather requirements and document them as user stories, epics, and themes
- Maintain a prioritized backlog
- Provide ongoing support to stakeholders and users of the data products
- Accountable for end-to-end delivery of the product, in partnership with IT
- Work in collaboration with the Director to develop and execute on long term roadmaps
- Monitor ongoing use of the data products to help direct future investment decisions
- Maintain metadata and data dictionaries
- Resolve conflicts and find compromises
- Ensure data quality and facilitate issue resolutions
- Assist in developing business case justification for product development, creating budget requests and managing funding allocations for the data product(s)
- Partner with ES and Architecture to evaluate solution and design options
- Acts as the go-to Subject Matter Expert for the data product(s), partnering with other SMEs in the business stakeholders, IT and Data Engineering teams to ensure coverage of expertise across the domain(s).

**What do you need to succeed ?**
- Proven experience with product leadership, ownership, and development in data and technology; including planning, execution and coordination of delivery activities across multiple teams and stakeholders
- 3+ years as a Product Owner in Agile environment
- Self-started with Owners Mindset
- Excellent communication and influence skills while working with diverse stakeholders; ability to interact with multiple levels of management across business, IT, and Data Engineering
- Ability to translate business needs and processes to requirements and technology direction
- Demonstrated ability to assess business needs and conceptualize a vision for the product with the added ability to develop a product strategy and roadmap. Ability to communicate a shared vision and establish buy-in.
- Experience with preparing cost estimates, presenting budget requests and managing to a budget.
- Outstanding problem-solving skills and ability to facilitate problem identification, resolution and escalation across multiple business and technology disciplines.
- High business acumen

**What will be nice to have?**
- BS in Computer Science, Computer Programming, Informatics or equivalent
- Insurance and/or Wealth Data Domain Product Experience
- Knowledge of AWS and Database technologies
- Familiarity with Data Science, including modeling
- Familiarity with Data Engineering concepts such as ETL
- Data Storyteller
- Experience with managing multi-year roadmaps and business cases
- Agile certification

**What’s in it for you?**
- Flexible work environment work from home, office or a combination
- Great Place to Work® Certified in Canada and the US.
- Named 2021 “Best Places to Work” by Glassdoor
- Canada Award for Excellence for Mental Health at Work - 2021
- Pension, stock and savings programs to help build and enhance your future financial security
- Work and professional development

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