- Manage the entire product life cycle from strategic planning to tactical execution
- Develop and manage project plans for product development and solutions
- Engage with multiple stakeholder groups to understand the demand, establishing road map and key milestones.
- Partner extensively with engineering teams and any other internal team involved, to deliver product roadmap and drive feature implementation.
- Translate product vision and roadmap into well-defined product requirements/user stories and user acceptance test criteria
- In-depth knowledge of Data Governance and Management concepts (metadata, lineage, data quality, etc.)
- Expectation management of various stakeholders/client groups.
- Manage and execute large external data projects, recommend courses of action and manage relationships for positive progress, respond to complex problems and prescribe solutions
- Align activities to data governance and data management standards/methods
- Build consensus among internal clients/customers and across key partner/stakeholder on product vision and various elements.
- Build strong relationships with various internal EY teams, leadership, and business stakeholders
- Collaborate and share best practices across the team and serve as a role model for leading change, innovation, and transformation
- Partner with senior leadership to develop operational strategies, define goals with direct responsibility for coordinating the execution of initiatives, processes and training
- Provide functional and operational support/update to meet leadership’s strategic goals on key products
- Partner with our customers (other internal EY teams), to better understand their problems/challenges and work together to deliver required solutions
- Communicate issues and status reports to leadership and/or stakeholders; works to establish consensus and resolve issues
Analytical/Decision Making Responsibilities:
- Applies judgment in tailoring methodologies, processes and practices to specific requirements of projects/products/services
- Understands the Data Office and Firm’s go-to-market strategy and service delivery models, how core business services support business lines, and how business operations enable exceptional client service and high performing teams.
- Manages complex to highly complex projects that require the ability to create and implement timelines related to project deliverables, assign tasks and follow up on their completion and manage sponsor/stakeholder expectations of the outcome of the deliverables.
Knowledge and Skills Requirements:
- Possesses strong understanding of the firm’s business, organizational structure and operations and leverages it to effectively identify opportunities to support the firm’s strategy and key initiatives.
- Experience with scrum and other agile development methods
- Combination of deep technical knowledge and customer-focused mindset
- Demonstrated strategic leadership capabilities, managing globally dispersed, virtual teams and global programs
- Ability to direct a team and create an environment which supports generating and sharing creative ideas and solutions
- Understanding of and desire to strive for technical excellence
- Understanding of the business and demonstrated commercial acumen using commercial language that presents knowledge activities in the context of business objectives
- Ability to demonstrate strong written and oral communication skills to talk about programs in a clear, compelling manner with a professional/executive presence
- Ability to assert ideas and influence others to gain support and commitment
- Understands the role and operations of other major business areas that intersect and integrate under Trusted Data Fabric.
- Self-starter, who can think strategically and consider a broad range of factors when solving/prioritizing issues and making decisions
- Strong project management, time management and organizational skills. Ability to coordinate multiple projects and initiatives at one time
- Ability to identify, influence and leverage internal subject matter resources
- Strong understanding of data management principles and practices
- Proficient in articulating complex data concepts and issues in clear terms; interprets business issues and communicates ramifications of decisions to leadership and stakeholders
- Experience in successfully supporting large complex projects
- Strong relationship and project management skills
- Strong execution discipline
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, including ability to display a range of communication approaches for diverse community needs
- Able to demonstrate team management experience, depending on supervisory responsibilities
- Strong teamwork and mentoring skills
- Proficient in relevant technologies
- Knowledge/familiarity of Azure, AWS or GCP services
- Working knowledge in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams and in addition knowledge of analytical tools such as Power BI will be helpful
- Ability to quickly analyze issues, develop solutions and effectively communicate recommendations