Product Owner / Scrum Master

• Drive end-to-end Agile delivery for Data platforms, Analytics, Reporting, Dashboards, and Data Engineering initiatives.
• Perform a hybrid role combining Product Owner, Scrum Master, and Business Systems Analysis (BSA) responsibilities.
• Own and manage the product backlog for Data & Analytics projects.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand business objectives, KPIs, and data requirements.
• Translate business needs into well-defined epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Prioritize backlog items based on business value, dependencies, data readiness, and regulatory requirements.
• Define release goals and support product roadmap planning for data initiatives.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies, including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives.
• Coach teams on Agile best practices and foster continuous improvement.
• Identify and remove delivery impediments related to data dependencies, environments, access, and cross-team coordination.
• Monitor and report Agile metrics such as velocity, burn-down charts, release progress, and team capacity.
• Elicit, analyze, and document functional and data-related business requirements.
• Define data rules, transformations, validation logic, and reporting requirements with stakeholders.
• Support functional walkthroughs, story validation, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) planning.
• Ensure clear documentation of data sources, assumptions, dependencies, and acceptance criteria.
• Act as the functional liaison between business users and Data Engineering/BI teams.
• Coordinate with business, product, data engineering, QA, and leadership teams to ensure successful project delivery.
• Manage cross-team dependencies and communicate project status, risks, issues, mitigations, and release readiness.
• Support governance activities, planning processes, and executive-level communications.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in IT delivery with strong Agile project experience.
• Proven experience as a Product Owner and/or Scrum Master.
• Strong exposure to Data & Analytics domains, including Data Engineering, BI, Reporting, and Dashboards.
• Hands-on experience in requirements analysis and BSA activities.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Experience using Agile tools such as JIRA, Confluence, or equivalent.