Data Platform Product Manager & Delivery Lead

Business Needs Inc; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Business Needs Inc. in Austin, TX seeks a Data Product Manager to unite a unified data and analytics platform, guiding backlog, roadmap, and governance across data platform operations and modernization.

You will partner with owners, architects, and engineers to translate strategic needs into prioritized platform capabilities and measurable outcomes. The role emphasizes both data platform product management (~70%) and scrum master/delivery facilitation (~30%), with a focus on cloud data

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, Engineering, Business, or related field required.
• Master's degree, product management certification, agile certification, or equivalent professional experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own and refine the integrated technical product backlog for the enterprise data and analytics platform across data platform, analytics, architecture, modernization, and operational enhancement workstreams.
• Partner with data owners and delivery leaders to gather, clarify, and prioritize demand related to platform operations, analytics, AI, and data architecture capabilities.
• Translate cloud data platform strategies and governance needs into epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, and measurable outcomes.
• Maintain a multi-quarter product roadmap balancing modernization, operational stability, analytics enablement, architecture standards, MDM, data quality, security, and adoption.
• Drive intake, triage, prioritization, and sequencing of platform work using value, risk, urgency, and capacity criteria.
• Coordinate with architecture, engineering, governance, security, and business teams to ensure backlog items are scoped, designed, validated, and delivery-ready.
• Define product success metrics including platform adoption, data product consumption, self-service maturity, and value realization.
• Support transition from legacy data platforms to unified modern platform with migration and adoption planning.
• Promote reusable data products, semantic models, standard architecture patterns, and cross-team platform capabilities.
• Facilitate agile ceremonies and serve as scrum master for shared delivery efforts.

Skills

Product management

Backlog management

Agile delivery

Stakeholder management

Data platform

Cloud data

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree or PM certification preferred

Tools

Databricks

Azure

Power BI

Snowflake

Job description

Business Needs Inc. in Austin, TX seeks a Data Product Manager to unite a unified data and analytics platform, guiding backlog, roadmap, and governance across data platform operations and modernization.

You will partner with owners, architects, and engineers to translate strategic needs into prioritized platform capabilities and measurable outcomes. The role emphasizes both data platform product management (~70%) and scrum master/delivery facilitation (~30%), with a focus on cloud data