Product Manager (Data Warehousing, Cloud) (QR10121) , Amsterdam

Omschrijving:
Functie: Product Manager (Data Warehousing, Cloud) (QR10121)
Start: 29-10-2024, 36 uur per week
Periode: 12 mnd+
Omgeving: Amsterdam

Omschrijving:
For our client in Amsterdam, we are looking for a Product Manager (Data Warehousing, Cloud).

Your role & work environment
At our client we have bold ambitions to improve the digital experience for our customers while empowering people’s financial health. At the same time, we want to make a positive contribution to the society and the world we live in.
Data is at the core of these ambitions. our client thrives to become intelligently empowered to:
• Provide the best customer experience based on data and personalization.
• Reduce operational costs and through-put-time through data-driven optimizations.
• Empower employees to make better decisions with trend analysis and business intelligence.

To deliver on these ambitious promises, we need to have a strong strategic, technical and commercial focused organisation around data, where the data lake is at the heart of the value our product squads working on. A healthy foundation of the data lake is enabled by clear prioritisation, accountability and building the right capabilities. And right there, the Product Manager comes in.

To put it in short, the Product Manager is a position where all elements of a data lake come together, the what and the how, with an end-to-end responsibility. You work not only on delivery but also on how we run the platform, by creating a platform vision & strategy, and execute to make it happen. Therefore, we need someone who can contribute to a continuous, emerging, all-round data platform vision that is covering all elements for the data platform life cycle, with the ultimate goal to increase customer impact.

You achieve this by steering squads who work on the data platform by providing them with a strategic direction, by coaching them, defining the product roadmap and by managing stakeholders around the data platform.

Additionally, you will also set up and implement the IT steering towards product teams. In this you will create an overview of the IT-health of the product teams/assets, steer the teams to improve the health of theirs assets and take actions according to the status. You will do this in the role of change coordinator, where you will be on top of the CICD pipelines of the teams and validate the changes they want to implement according to the newly implemented IT steering framework.

As a Product Manager you report hierarchically to a IT Area Lead.

Roles and responsibilities
As a Product Manager, you:
• Own our data lake solution, which means you are accountable for the product vision, including functionality, technology, interaction patterns with internal consumers
• Take collective ownership of the product, including engineering and architecture aspects
• Perform analyses to stay on top of market trends, to ensure product’s competitive position
• Define the roadmap of the product to maximize business value through ordering and prioritisation of the product backlog, under consideration of relevant stakeholder needs
• Prioritise the product backlog (both on functional as non-functional requirements as risks, reliability, IT Run, LCM)
• Focus on delivery through collaboration, ability to bring people together to work towards the same purpose.
• Are able to take responsibility, steer strategy and realisations based on facts and data; managerial courage to question and make decisions. Are a mandated IT asset owner, risk manager, and in case of a non-generic IT asset, data owner for the product and accepts test results and approves (IT) changes on the product
• Build the craftsmanship of the employees in the team in line with the strategy of the Tribe and Area.
• Ensure compliance with relevant regulation and internal/external requirements (E.g. GDPR, SOX, BCBS239)

We look for
A leader who takes things on and makes things happen; who is passionate about helping others to be successful; and has a knack for always being a step ahead. You are a naturally collaborative person who listens and invests in others to achieve common goals. You love to challenge the status quo and are eager to propose creative solutions to problems.

As a Product Manager, you will also need to be able to:
• Build an effective team, that has diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals
• People management: being responsible for the inflow, progression, and outflow of employees of ‘your’ teams and playing an active role in the well-being and engagement of employees and the development of their craftsmanship
• Communicate effectively, in which you can adapt your style and the content of your communication to the needs of others you work with. You always pay attention to the input and opinions of others
• Have a customer focus, where you build strong customer relationships and deliver customer-centric solutions
• Drive engagement, you create an environment in which people are motivated to perform at their best to help our client to achieve its goals
• Be organisational savvy, you manoeuvre easily through complex policies, processes and people-related organisational dynamics across our client
• Look ahead, you show a strategic mindset, and you find future opportunities which you can translate into concrete strategies
• Be tech savvy, where you anticipate and leverage innovations in digital and technical applications that make our client commercially stronger and more effective

Proven track record and technical skills:
As a Product Manager, you have
• Experience in defining strategies and policies in order to set and deliver objectives within medium to long time frames
• A proven track record in processes of digitalization, backlog management and resource planning
• Experience in product/service management and development
• Sound experience in building and executing strategic roadmaps
• Experience in explaining complex issues in an easy-to-understand way to get people on board, including by using your strong analytical skills
• Experience in Data Management and knowledge of Data Solutions (E.g. Data Warehousing, Data Lakes, Streaming data and AI/ML, Data Products)
• In your role as change coordinator:
o You have experience with CI/CD pipelines and automatic deployments
o Are able to guide product teams through a change in Ways of Working
o Translate requirements to insights and/or defined backlog items for pipeline development
o Can adapt your communication style to the target group
• An excellent level of English
• A Master’s Degree


Trefwoorden: Product Manager, Data, DWH