Sr. Data Product Owner

A client of Innova Solutions is immediately hiring for a Senior Data Product Owner

Position Type: Full time, Hybrid Onsite Contract --- (***Hybrid Position – 3 days onsite and 2 days remote work in a week!!!)
Duration: 12-18 Months contract
Location(s): Either Charlotte, NC 28202 / Plano, TX 75024

KEY TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Data Product Owner
Data Governance Protection
Data Management
Data Modelling
Data Architecture
Cloud Architecture
Cloud Migration
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Data Modernization

Job Description:
The Data Product Manager (Strategy Lead) role is part of a horizontal function supporting all delivery verticals under the newly formed ITGPST Data Strategy and Delivery organization. This role defines data domain-level strategies and establishes consistent end-to-end data flow design patterns, while enabling accurate and timely data-focused requirements scoping by coordinating across business and technology teams to synergize efforts across multiple projects. It aligns strategic objectives and enforces standards through governance—reducing rework, ensuring regulatory and audit compliance, and enabling reusable design patterns. The role drives predictable delivery across a multi-million-dollar portfolio by embedding opportunities for strategic objectives such as data modernization, cloud migration, and AI adoption.

Key Responsibilities:
 - Strategic Vision & Roadmaps – Define data domain/capability strategies, target patterns, and modernization pathways; co-develop and maintain roadmaps with delivery, incorporating Inspect & Adapt learnings, technical debt, and audit findings.
 - Portfolio Intake & Discovery – Assess new requests to drive data landscape simplification, modernization, and governance; influence scope and design decisions
 - Governance Routines – Lead adoption of target data patterns; co-own business-driven governance with DSME; ensure control efficacy and compliance readiness.
 - Architectural Vision & PI Planning – Lead strategic enablers during PI Planning; enforce alignment with enterprise blueprints and standardized data patterns with Enterprise Architects.
 - Delivery Verticals Support – Validate Epic acceptance criteria for strategic and governance fit; advise on design trade-offs, prioritization, and dependency management.
 - Voice of Customer & Use Case Capture – Serve as the strategy-layer product manager; capture and prioritize client, regulatory, operational use cases to drive reuse and measurable value.
 - Data-as-Product Advocacy – Promote canonical data contracts, shared services, and interoperability across domains; champion culture change and pattern libraries.
 
Primary Skill: Data Governance Protection & Data Management
Secondary Skills: Data Modelling and Data Architecture
Tertiary Skill: Cloud Architect
 
Required Qualifications:
 - Global Payments domain expertise: payment rails, clearing/settlement, cross-border flows, correspondent banking, treasury/payments operations; ISO?20022, SWIFT MT/MX.
 - Regulatory & reporting knowledge: PSD2/Open Banking, AML/Sanctions (GFCC), NFRR/FRR reporting controls, audit readiness; data retention/lineage requirements.
 - Data strategy & architecture: canonical data modeling, shared contracts/APIs, event-driven and batch patterns, lineage/metadata, reference/master data, data quality controls.
 - Governance leadership: design-pattern stewardship, control frameworks, standards enforcement, policy-to-implementation traceability;
 - Enterprise alignment: collaboration with Enterprise Architects; blueprint adherence; pattern libraries; PI Planning of strategic enablers (SAFe or similar).
 - Product management: roadmap definition, value hypothesis, backlog curation, Epic/Feature acceptance criteria; use-case capture and prioritization for reuse and measurable value.
 - Portfolio intake & discovery: ability to challenge scope for simplification/modernization; dependency and risk management across CDPO verticals.
 - Communication & stakeholder management: executive-level storytelling, cross-functional influence, multi-location collaboration across EMEA and global teams.
 - Experience: typically 10+ years in data/architecture/product roles, including 5+ years in Payments/Treasury or banking; proven delivery in regulated environments.
 
Desired Qualifications:
 - Modern data practices: data mesh/product-based operating models; event streaming (e.g., Kafka); interoperability standards.
 - Cloud & modernization: experience guiding migration to modern platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS), data lakes/warehouses, streaming, real-time payments integration.
 - Certifications: SAFe POPM/Architect, CDMP/DAMA, and cloud certifications (Azure/AWS).

Key Skills:

• Product Data Management
• Kafka
• Swift

Qualified candidates should APPLY NOW for immediate consideration! 

***This position is only open to applicants who can be engaged on a W-2 Basis.

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We are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar positions. If this role is not a fit for you, we do offer a referral bonus program for referrals that we successfully place with our clients, subject to program guidelines.   ASK ME HOW.

Thank you!

Sunil Nanda
Innova Solutions Inc.
Tel: (+1) 585-625-4173
Email ID:
 
PAY RANGE AND BENEFITS:
Hourly Pay Rate: $75/hr-$80/hr
 *Pay range offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors, including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc.
 Benefits: Innova Solutions offers benefits( based on eligibility) that include the following: Medical & pharmacy coverage, Dental/vision insurance, 401(k), Health saving account (HSA) and Flexible spending account (FSA), Life Insurance, Pet Insurance, Short term and Long term Disability, Accident & Critical illness coverage, Pre-paid legal & ID theft protection, Sick time, and other types of paid leaves (as required by law), Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
 ABOUT INNOVA SOLUTIONS: Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Innova Solutions employs approximately 50,000 professionals worldwide and reports an annual revenue approaching $3 Billion. Through our global delivery centers across North America, Asia, and Europe, we deliver strategic technology and business transformation solutions to our clients, enabling them to operate as leaders within their fields.

Recent Recognitions:
Named One of America’s Best Employers for New Grads by Forbes (2024
Named One of the Best Companies to Work For by U.S. News & World Report (Private Companies List, 2024-2025)
One of the Largest IT Staffing Firms in the US – Ranked #3 by Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA, 2024)
One of the Largest Staffing Firms in the US – Ranked #13 by Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA, 2024; includes Innova Solutions, Volt, & HireGenics)
Named One of the Top Ten Private Companies in Atlanta by the Atlanta Business Chronicle (2023)
One of the Largest Certified Minority Business Enterprises (MBEs) in the United States (NMSDC, 2024)
AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner with 100+ certifications
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