Product Owner

Analytica is seeking adata products Product Ownerto provide product vision and delivery of clients data products and catalog implementations. Translate business outcomes into a practical roadmap partner with engineering and drive adoption of data governance capabilities on agile project teams

for federal government clients in the DC metro area. The ideal candidate will be comfortable working directly with clients in both a consulting and delivery capacity to tackle complex enterprise cloud or on-premises software and technology projects.

Analytica has been recognized by Inc. Magazine as a fastest-growing private US small business. We work with U.S. government customers in health civilian and national security missions. Analytica offers competitive compensation with opportunities for bonuses employer paid health care training and development funds and 401k match.

Responsibilities include (but not limited to):

• Regularly interface with clients at numerous levels of an organizationproject managers stakeholders end-users data owners analysts IT groups management and executivesto drive the delivery of data management and governance products
• Own and prioritize the backlog for data product rollouts; convert business outcomes into epics user stories and clear acceptance criteria.
• Lead requirements gathering via stakeholder interviews workshops and process mapping; reconcile competing needs and set release priorities.
• Define endtoend test scenarios (UAT) for metadata ingestion lineage search glossary/stewardship workflows coordinate test execution and defect triage.
• Partner with data engineering/architecture to design connectors curation pipelines and governance workflows that are scalable secure and compliant.
• Drive change management and training; track adoption KPIs (catalog coverage active users glossary completeness steward SLAs) and report progress to sponsors.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in relative field
• 5 years as a Product Owner/Business Analyst in data management/governance; 2 years delivering catalog/metadata solutions.
• Strong knowledge of metadata management data lineage business glossaries/stewardship data quality and policy/governance frameworks (e.g. DAMADMBOK); awareness of GDPR/CCPA.
• Proven Agile/Scrum execution using Jira/Azure DevOps; experience in writing user stories and BDDstyle acceptance criteria.
• Experience collaborating with data engineers on ingestion from platforms like Databricks Snowflake BigQuery AWS Redshift Oracle or SQL Server; basic SQL for validation is a plus.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills; able to translate technical concepts into business value in client-facing environments.
• Must be a Green Card holder or U.S. Citizen to obtain the Public Trust clearance

Analytica LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all individuals regardless of race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin age disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal state or local law. As a federal contractor we comply with the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) and take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment qualified protected veterans.

We ensure that all employment decisions are based on merit qualifications and business needs. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind. Analytica LLC also provides reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees with disabilities in accordance with applicable laws

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