Product Management Analyst – Data Platform & Governance

Accountabilities:

• Own the vision, roadmap, and prioritization for data products, including datasets, pipelines, data quality rules, and dashboards, while aligning delivery with business outcomes and compliance requirements.
• Translate stakeholder needs into well-defined epics, features, and user stories with clear acceptance criteria, maintaining a transparent and prioritized product backlog.
• Define and monitor product metrics such as adoption, data quality, SLA compliance, performance, and value realization.
• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Partner with Scrum Masters and technical leads to remove impediments, manage scope, and support predictable delivery.
• Champion Definition of Ready and Definition of Done standards to ensure data products meet governance, quality, reliability, and performance expectations.
• Use SQL to validate datasets across environments, investigate discrepancies, troubleshoot data issues, and support product decisions.
• Collaborate with analysts and data scientists to define KPIs, analytical capabilities, and insight-driven use cases.
• Partner with data governance teams to establish stewardship workflows, naming standards, certification processes, data quality rules, scorecards, and issue-resolution processes.
• Use Collibra or comparable data catalog capabilities to manage metadata, lineage, governance, and the onboarding of governed datasets.
• Work closely with data engineers on ingestion, transformation, orchestration, schema design, partitioning, indexing, scalability, reliability, and performance optimization.
• Lead discovery workshops and synthesize diverse stakeholder perspectives into aligned priorities and release plans.
• Create and maintain data dictionaries, business rules, lineage diagrams, workflow maps, release notes, and other product documentation.
• Communicate product progress, data insights, risks, and priorities clearly to technical teams, business stakeholders, clients, and leadership.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• At least 3 years of experience in product management delivering data-centric products, including analytics, governance, data engineering, or related platforms.
• Strong SQL proficiency and the ability to use SQL for data validation, reconciliation, troubleshooting, and analysis.
• Proven experience managing products through Agile/Scrum methodologies, including backlog management, sprint planning, refinement, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex business and technical requirements into actionable user stories and clear acceptance criteria.
• Strong understanding of data governance concepts, including metadata, lineage, stewardship, data quality, standards, and certification.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, stakeholder management, and presentation skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, governance, analytics, architecture, and business teams.
• Experience with Collibra or another enterprise data catalog platform is preferred.
• Exposure to modern data environments such as AWS or Azure, data lakes or warehouses, and orchestration tools is preferred.
• Experience working alongside data engineers, architects, analysts, or data scientists is an advantage.
• Background supporting federal, healthcare, or other enterprise-scale data programs is a plus.
• Strong product ownership, prioritization, problem-solving, and analytical skills.
• Willingness to travel approximately 10–25% as required.
• Candidates in the DMV area are preferred, although the position is remote.

Benefits:

• Expected salary range of $85,093–$88,550, with final compensation based on experience, geographic location, and applicable contractual considerations.
• Full-time, remote work opportunity with flexible work arrangements where available.
• Medical plan options, including plans with Health Savings Accounts.
• Dental and vision insurance.
• 401(k) plan with company matching.
• Paid vacation, sick, and personal leave.
• Approximately 15 days of paid leave for new employees, subject to applicable policies and prorating.
• 10 paid holidays annually.
• Paid parental, military, bereavement, and jury-duty leave.
• Paid Family Leave program offering up to 160 hours in a rolling 12-month period for eligible employees.
• Short- and long-term disability coverage.
• Life insurance and accidental death and dismemberment coverage.
• Personal accident and critical illness insurance options.
• Business travel and accident insurance.
• Opportunities to work on large-scale data, technology, and mission-focused initiatives.