Data Platform Product Owner: Databricks & BI

Sidley Austin; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 108,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Sidley Austin LLP is seeking a Technical Product Owner to drive the data platform and BI capabilities, translating business needs into epics, managing the backlog, and coordinating Agile delivery for a dedicated scrum team.

You will partner with engineering leadership to roadmap, plan releases, and ensure timely delivery of ingestion pipelines, transformations, models, and reporting solutions across the data ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Business Administration, Product Management, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• At least 5 years in technical product ownership or related roles.
• Experience translating requirements into epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Experience coordinating day-to-day Agile delivery for a scrum team.
• Knowledge of modern data architectures, data integration, APIs, data modeling, and BI concepts.
• Experience coordinating dependencies, risks, testing, release activities, and stakeholder communications.

Responsibilities

• Manage and maintain the product backlog for data platform and BI capabilities, in partnership with leadership and stakeholders.
• Translate requirements into epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria; clarify scope and dependencies.
• Coordinate Agile delivery for a scrum team; facilitate planning, stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Monitor delivery plans, milestones, risks, and metrics; report status to stakeholders.
• Coordinate cross-functional delivery across data engineering, BI, QA, DevOps, and security teams.
• Support roadmap and release planning with estimates and technical considerations; assist with release readiness activities.
• Collaborate with data/BI teams on ingestion pipelines, transformations, models, reporting, and self-service analytics.
• Apply data quality, governance, lifecycle, and documentation practices; identify process improvements.
• Liaise between business and technical teams to align requirements and priorities.

Skills

Agile delivery

Data modeling

Data governance

Communication

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor’s degree (IS/CS/Business/PM)

Tools

Jira

Azure DevOps

Databricks

Power BI

Job description

Sidley Austin LLP is seeking a Technical Product Owner to drive the data platform and BI capabilities, translating business needs into epics, managing the backlog, and coordinating Agile delivery for a dedicated scrum team.

You will partner with engineering leadership to roadmap, plan releases, and ensure timely delivery of ingestion pipelines, transformations, models, and reporting solutions across the data ecosystem.