Data Lake Product Lead – Azure & AI-Ready Data

Nestlé IT & Digital Americas; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k with company match

Healthcare coverage

Competitive total rewards

Job summary

Nestlé IT & Digital Americas is seeking a Data Product Expert to manage and evolve our enterprise data lake as a product, enabling scalable, trusted, and AI-ready data services across the enterprise. This role balances technical depth with business fluency, partnering across functions to translate priorities into reliable, secure, and cost-efficient data services.

You will own the data lake product lifecycle, drive adoption of cloud platforms, and collaborate with global teams to ensure

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Engineering/Data Science or related field.
• 7+ years delivering enterprise-scale data products and platforms.
• 5+ years hands-on experience with Azure or Snowflake data platforms.
• 3+ years as a Product Owner managing backlogs, roadmaps, and stakeholder alignment in agile delivery.
• 3+ years of data architecture, integrations, data warehousing, and back-end development.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end lifecycle of data lake products, including vision, roadmap, backlog prioritization, and value realization.
• Translate business and analytics requirements into scalable data platform capabilities and reusable data assets.
• Ensure seamless integration of structured and unstructured data across upstream and downstream systems.
• Drive adoption and optimization of cloud-based data platforms (Azure Data Lake, Databricks, Synapse, Snowflake).
• Leverage APIs, storage optimization, and distributed compute to enable scalable data pipelines.
• Embed data governance, metadata management, and quality standards, coordinating with zone/global teams for alignment.

Skills

Data platforms

Product ownership

Agile delivery

Data architecture

Cloud data platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Azure Data Lake

Databricks

Synapse

Snowflake

Job description

Nestlé IT & Digital Americas is seeking a Data Product Expert to manage and evolve our enterprise data lake as a product, enabling scalable, trusted, and AI-ready data services across the enterprise. This role balances technical depth with business fluency, partnering across functions to translate priorities into reliable, secure, and cost-efficient data services.

You will own the data lake product lifecycle, drive adoption of cloud platforms, and collaborate with global teams to ensure