Principal Product Manager, Data

Milestone Technologies, Inc.; Jacksonville (FL); On-site; USD 145,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

Milestone Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Principal Product Manager, Data to lead strategy and delivery of enterprise data products. You will collaborate with stakeholders, architects, data modelers, engineers, and governance teams to transform source data into trusted, scalable products.

You will define vision and roadmaps, lead discovery, establish requirements and guide delivery through adoption, leveraging payment data knowledge and governance.

Qualifications

• Significant product-management experience with enterprise data platforms.
• Experience defining product strategy, roadmaps, requirements and measurable outcomes.
• Strong understanding of data modeling, lineage, validation and data quality.
• Knowledge of batch, streaming, file-based, API and change-data-capture patterns.
• Familiarity with AWS, Snowflake, Iceberg, Kafka, dbt and Airflow.
• Strong SQL skills and knowledge of payment processing data.

Responsibilities

• Define vision, strategy, roadmap and success metrics for enterprise data products.
• Translate business use cases into data requirements, rules and acceptance criteria.
• Lead discovery and prioritization across business, product, risk, finance, and technology teams.
• Develop understanding of source data, mappings, and attributes.
• Define data modeling requirements and ensure traceability to source fields.
• Shape platform capabilities for batch, streaming, API and CDC ingestion.
• Embed data quality, metadata, governance, and security into product design.

Skills

Enterprise data product mgmt

Roadmap development

Data modeling

Data quality

Stakeholder mgmt

SQL

Payment data

Tools

AWS

Snowflake

Apache Iceberg

Kafka

dbt

Airflow

Job description

Company Overview

Milestone Technologies is a global IT managed services firm that partners with organizations to scale their technology, infrastructure and services to drive specific business outcomes such as digital transformation, innovation, and operational agility. Milestone is focused on building an employee-first, performance-based culture and for over 25 years, we have a demonstrated history of supporting category-defining enterprise clients that are growing ahead of the market. The company specializes in providing solutions across Application Services and Consulting, Digital Product Engineering, Digital Workplace Services, Private Cloud Services, AI/Automation, and ServiceNow. Milestone culture is built to provide a collaborative, inclusive environment that supports employees and empowers them to reach their full potential.

Company Overview

Milestone Technologies is a global IT managed services firm that partners with organizations to scale their technology, infrastructure and services to drive specific business outcomes such as digital transformation, innovation, and operational agility. Milestone is focused on building an employee-first, performance-based culture and for over 25 years, we have a demonstrated history of supporting category-defining enterprise clients that are growing ahead of the market. The company specializes in providing solutions across Application Services and Consulting, Digital Product Engineering, Digital Workplace Services, Private Cloud Services, AI/Automation, and ServiceNow. Milestone culture is built to provide a collaborative, inclusive environment that supports employees and empowers them to reach their full potential.

Our seasoned professionals deliver services based on Milestone's best practices and service delivery framework. By leveraging our vast knowledge base to execute initiatives, we deliver both short-term and long-term value to our clients and apply continuous service improvement to deliver transformational benefits to IT. With Intelligent Automation, Milestone helps businesses further accelerate their IT transformation. The result is a sharper focus on business objectives and a dramatic improvement in employee productivity. Through our key technology partnerships and our people-first approach, Milestone continues to deliver industry-leading innovation to our clients. With more than 3,000 employees serving over 200 companies worldwide, we are following our mission of revolutionizing the way IT is deployed.

Job Overview

We are seeking a Principal Product Manager, Data to lead the strategy and delivery of enterprise data products and platform capabilities. You will partner with business stakeholders, architects, data modelers, engineers, analytics, and governance teams to transform complex source data into trusted, scalable, and reusable products. You will define product vision and roadmaps, lead discovery, establish requirements, prioritize investments, and guide delivery through adoption. The successful candidate must have sufficient technical depth to understand complex data, lead modeling and validation discussions, evaluate architectural trade-offs, and work effectively across the payment-processing lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Define the vision, strategy, roadmap, and success measures for enterprise data products and platform capabilities.
• Understand consumer needs and translate business use cases into product requirements, data requirements, business rules, and acceptance criteria.
• Lead discovery and prioritization across business, product, risk, finance, operations, analytics, governance, and technology teams.
• Develop a detailed understanding of source data, including its meaning, structure, relationships, history, quality, and system-specific variations.
• Define modeling requirements such as data grain, keys, relationships, facts, dimensions, reference data, history, derived attributes, and sources of truth.
• Partner with data modelers and engineers to design standardized, reusable data products.
• Lead source-to-target mapping and ensure attributes are traceable to source fields and transformation rules.
• Define reconciliation and validation requirements covering completeness, accuracy, timeliness, historical coverage, coded values, and downstream usability.
• Shape platform capabilities for batch, file-based, streaming, API, and change-data-capture ingestion.
• Define requirements for file processing, schema validation, transformation, exception handling, incremental processing, monitoring, and reconciliation.
• Define how data is organized across raw, standardized, curated, semantic, and consumption layers.
• Shape governed data sharing through tables, files, APIs, events, streams, analytical products, and secure data-sharing mechanisms.
• Embed data quality, metadata, lineage, classification, privacy, security, access, and governance into product design.
• Apply payments knowledge across merchant, partner, authorization, settlement, refund, chargeback, pricing, risk, fraud, and revenue data.
• Communicate priorities, dependencies, risks, trade-offs, and outcomes to senior stakeholders.

Required Qualifications

• Significant product-management experience with enterprise data, data-platform, or similarly complex technical products.
• Experience defining product strategy, roadmaps, requirements, priorities, and measurable outcomes.
• Strong understanding of data modeling, source-to-target mapping, reconciliation, validation, lineage, and data quality.
• Understanding of batch, streaming, file-based, API, and change-data-capture patterns.
• Knowledge of data lakes, lakehouses, cloud warehouses, transformation layers, orchestration, observability, and governed consumption.
• Working knowledge of AWS, Snowflake, Apache Iceberg, Kafka, dbt, and Airflow, or comparable technologies.
• Strong SQL proficiency for exploring data, validating mappings, and investigating anomalies.
• Strong knowledge of payment processing and the end-to-end transaction lifecycle.
• Experience with payment and processor data.
• Strong communication, prioritization, stakeholder-management, and influencing skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with merchant acquiring or multiple payment processors.
• Experience modernizing fragmented or legacy data environments.
• Experience delivering data products for analytics, applications, risk, data science, or AI.
• Familiarity with PCI, sensitive-data handling, and regulated environments.

Compensation

Estimated Pay Range: $145K to $155K base salary + benefits

Exact compensation and offers of employment are dependent on circumstances of each case and will be determined based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, licenses or certifications, and location.

Our Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion

At Milestone we strive to create a workplace that reflects the communities we serve and work with, where we all feel empowered to bring our full, authentic selves to work. We know creating a diverse and inclusive culture that champions equity and belonging is not only the right thing to do for ouremployees butis also critical to our continued success.

Milestone Technologies provides equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, national origin, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law, or local ordinance. Milestone also makes reasonable accommodations for disabled applicants and employees. We welcome the unique background, culture, experiences, knowledge, innovation, self-expression and perspectives you can bring to our global community. Our recruitment team is looking forward to meeting you.