Senior Product Owner, Data Platform for Life Sciences

Danaher Corporation; Woking; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

IDBS, a Danaher operating company, seeks a senior Product Owner to own the Data Platform and govern data across the scientific informatics stack. You will drive the data foundation from ingestion to exposure for analytics and AI, partnering with engineers, informatics leads and enterprise customers.

The role emphasizes regulated data integrity, contract-driven evolution, and PI planning alignment in an Agile/Lean environment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Product Owner/Manager for data or platform products.
• Ability to translate infrastructure into outcome-focused, INVEST stories and metrics.
• Deep understanding of modern lakehouse architecture and data modelling.
• Experience in regulated GxP environments with ISO controls and data integrity.

Responsibilities

• Own vision, roadmap and performance of the Data Platform delivering reliable, scalable data services.
• Define and track product metrics, including latency, throughput and cost governance.
• Drive data contracts and schema evolution with predictable changes across domains.
• Identify dependencies before PI Planning and communicate trade-offs clearly.
• Lead discovery with Data Engineers and enterprise customers for sandbox/data replay pipelines.
• Establish operational quality practices and runbooks before handover.
• Ensure ISO 9001/27001 and ALCOA+ data integrity, tenant isolation and audit readiness.

Skills

Data product management

Agile delivery

Stakeholder engagement

Data governance

Lakehouse architecture

Regulatory compliance

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Power BI

Job description

IDBS, a Danaher operating company, seeks a senior Product Owner to own the Data Platform and govern data across the scientific informatics stack. You will drive the data foundation from ingestion to exposure for analytics and AI, partnering with engineers, informatics leads and enterprise customers.

The role emphasizes regulated data integrity, contract-driven evolution, and PI planning alignment in an Agile/Lean environment.