Data Product Owner - Excess, Surplus & Specialty Insurance

National Black MBA Association; Des Moines (IA); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a passionate Data Product Owner to drive innovative data solutions. This role is pivotal in bridging the gap between technology and business, ensuring that data products meet stakeholder needs while adhering to agile methodologies. You will be responsible for prioritizing development requests, managing communications, and guiding teams through the data development process. If you thrive in a collaborative environment and are eager to contribute to a future-forward data culture, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Experience in data product management and agile methodologies.
• Strong analytical skills with a focus on data-driven decision making.

Responsibilities

• Set data product strategy and support development of data solutions.
• Manage stakeholder relationships and ensure alignment with business objectives.

Skills

Data analysis and query building

Servant leadership and communication

Problem solving

Design thinking

Pricing and product acumen

Reconciliation, financial controls, and data quality acumen

SQL

ETL development

Agile practices

Data modeling techniques

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Relevant certifications (e.g., Agile, Data Management)

Job description

If you’re passionate about innovation and love working in an environment where you can constantly improve and adopt new technologies to drive business results, then Nationwide’s Information Technology team could be the place for you! At Nationwide, “on your side” goes beyond just words. Our customers are at the center of everything we do and we’re looking for associates who are passionate about delivering extraordinary care.

This role will be filled in a hybrid capacity, with collaboration taking place in one of our office locations in Columbus, OH, Scottsdale, AZ, or Des Moines, IA.

This role does not qualify for employer-sponsored work authorization. Nationwide does not participate in the Stem OPT Extension program.

We expect to fill two positions focused on Excess, Surplus & Specialty. The Consultant, Data Product Owner is responsible for setting data product strategy for the domain and supporting the development of desirable, feasible, viable, and sustainable data solutions to meet stakeholder needs.

Key Skills

• Data analysis and query building

• Servant leadership and communication

• Problem solving

• Design thinking

• Pricing and product acumen

• Reconciliation, financial controls, and data quality acumen

• Technical: SQL, ETL development, Agile practices, and data modeling techniques

Portfolio Management

• Manages and prioritizes the flow of work into the domain

• Ensures awareness and understanding of business-funded projects that will impact the domain, including key project objectives and milestones

• Coordinates the release and planning activities with the Delivery Leader, the Agile Leader, the Technical Lead, and other key cross-domain resources

• Supports the flow of work to the Agile teams, working with the Agile Leader within the domain to ensure the work is well defined, visualized, and sized appropriately

• Guides the work through incremental deliveries across multiple Agile teams and coordinates User Acceptance Testing with identified stakeholders

Stakeholder Management

• Identifies all current and future stakeholders for the domain

• Connects key deliverables to stakeholder needs and multiple stakeholders to key deliverables (build once, use twice)

• Supports the customer experience to ensure continuous improvement of the domain related to its ability to support desired business outcomes and achieve business value

• Evaluates tactical solutions proposed within the domain against strategic objectives as presented in the vision and roadmap, maximizing business value and minimizing technical debt

Compensation Grade G5

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Job Description Summary

Nationwide’s industry leading workforce is passionate about creating data solutions that are secure, reliable and efficient in support of our mission to provide extraordinary care. Nationwide embraces an agile work environment and collaborative culture through the understanding of business processes, relationship entities and requirements using data analysis, quality, visualization, governance, engineering, robotic process automation, and machine learning to produce targeted data solutions. If you have the drive and desire to be part of a future forward data enabled culture, we want to hear from you.

As a Data Product Owner, you’ll be the data-related voice of the customer within a Technology development line and serve as the primary liaison between the business and Technology. You’ll be responsible for creating and maintaining the vision and value for the data product. You’ll continually re-prioritize backlog of defects and new development requests for the line(s) that support their data products, working with Technology leadership to influence staffing decisions against work priorities. Your role provides business-minded thought leadership throughout all phases of data development, including intake, work initiation and iteration planning and project estimations; they develop business requirements, manage communications between Technology and business, resolve blockers/questions/support needs, conduct/coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and approve releases. You’ll evaluate potential impacts to data products, coordinate with stakeholders and serve as steward for data governance, access rights/audits and defect resolution.