Product Owner - Data Governance

Job description

 

Discovery is at the core of everything we do – whether it’s a great value, incredible style, or building long-lasting partnerships with people around the world. That’s what makes TJX different. You can find it all across our brands: TJ Maxx, Marshalls, HomeGoods, Sierra, and Homesense. Every one of our brands has one thing in common: environments that are always changing. That’s just how we like it. Every day is an opportunity to discover something new about our business, our partnerships, and even about yourself. Come discover what different can mean for you.

Posting Notes: Marlborough  || MA 

 

The Data Governance Product Owner is responsible for supporting the establishment and execution of enterprise level processes, standards and tools to support data governance and data management.  The individual will help lead the organization to become more data driven in decision making and utilizing analytics to develop actionable insight. This includes establishing and managing an information governance function, implementation of a future state data governance architecture, and creating information strategies around data quality, metadata and information governance.

 

Major Duties/ Responsibilities

 

·  Establish and govern an enterprise data governance technology implementation
·  Proactively champions the value of information (data) as a strategic business asset and revenue generator by providing the business with ideas and promoting those ideas into action
·  Accountable for developing and implementing data and analytics governance, including:
·  data policies, standards, catalog, definitions;
·  data quality management;
·  data security and access;
·  data governance program metrics and performance
·  Provides training and user support for data governance tools (e.g. data catalog)
·  Identifies, coordinates, and engages with data stewards and internal partner organizations to drive data governance outcomes and manage data
·  Promote participation and buy-in from business areas for data governance activities
·  Responsible for gathering, or assisting with gathering information requirements, developing business glossaries
·  Responsible for defining Stories and prioritizing the Team Backlog with possible direction from more experienced POs or the Product Manager (where these exist)
·  Ensures that the team always has an adequate amount of prior prepared tasks to work on, with possible direction from more experienced POs or the Product Manager (where these exist)
·  Analyzes business processes and elicits and defines user stories using industry standard techniques
·  May provide limited guidance to less experienced POs
·  Provides backlog management, iteration planning and elaboration of user stories
·  Act as the liaison between the business and/or Agile Product Manager and the Scrum/Agile Team
·  Takes direction from the Agile Product Manager (where these exist) on Feature prioritization and decomposes into user stories.
·  Refines the team backlog and ensures its visibility to stakeholders in order to prioritize user stories
·  Supports a maximum of 1 Agile team
·  Develops a strong understanding of targeted business operations and assists in the analysis of related business processes.
·  Acts as customer proxy and works with product management and other POs to prepare for the PI Planning meeting (where relevant)
·  Attends relevant Product Management meetings about planning and backlog/Vision refinement
·  As a member of the extended Product Management team, the PO may be involved in Program Backlog refinement
·  Participates in Team Demos and Retrospectives
·  With some guidance from more senior POs plays a key role in producing the System Demo for program and Value Stream holders
·  With some guidance from more senior POs, drives iteration goals and iteration content via prioritized stories
·  With some guidance from more senior POs,drives the story elaboration process for the Team, and ensures there is always a minimum of 2 sprints worth of ready stories in the backlog.
·  Ensures the team understands items in the team backlog to the level needed
·  Ensures the team’s iteration goals are aligned to the PI/TI Objectives
·  Attends and actively participates in Team Ceremonies: Iteration Planning, Daily Scrum, Iteration Review, Iteration Retrospective
·  If part of an Agile Release Train (ART) the PO attends and actively participates in Release Train Ceremonies: PI Planning, System Demo, ART Sync, Inspect & Adapt
·  Collaborates with Product Manager (where these exist) and other Product Owners to define and coordinate feature development across other teams

 

Skills/Knowledge

 

·  2+ years of relevant experience in an agile delivery framework, strategy or requirement development or Product Owner role
·  Experience in data governance and or data management including, but not limited to, data management standards and approaches, data quality management, data governance practices, and data stewardship practices
·  Relevant undergraduate BA, BS degree in IT or Business or equivalent experience
·  Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) or SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager (where these exist) (POPM) preferred.
·  Developing competency translating business needs into user stories that Teams can develop into finished deliverables
·  Previous experience as a Product Owner, Business Analyst or similar knowledge of eliciting business requirements is required
·  Good experience writing user stories and their acceptance criteria. 
·  Works directly with product management, business sponsors, key stakeholders and agile scrum team(s) to ensure the solution meets the product vision and business objectives.
·  Ability to manage dependencies in and across sprints and releases.
·  Collaboration: Works effectively with others; establishing and maintaining good working relationships. 
·  Competent knowledge of business analysis, project management, and product management concepts desired, along with an understanding of how enterprise software products are positioned and developed
·  Good working knowledge of ALM tools, Jira and Confluence

 

Discover Different at TJX means opportunity, teamwork, and career growth. That’s why working here is so much more than a job. When you’re a part of our TJX family, you have the full support of a diverse, close-knit group of people that work together to deliver the best value and style in the business. Our inventory is always changing and our approach is continually evolving, which means every day is another chance to Discover Different.

We care about our culture, but we also prioritize the tangible stuff – competitive pay, great benefits, and a great group of people.

We consider all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, gender identity and expression, marital or military status. We also provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and applicable state and local law.

 Posting Notes: Marlborough  || MA

Nearest Major Market: Boston
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