Product Owner - Data

First Soft Solutions; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

First Soft Solutions in New York, NY is seeking an experienced Data Product Owner to lead enterprise data products supporting critical business, client, and investment management functions. The role combines strategic roadmapping with hands-on data analysis using SQL and cloud platforms.

You will own data products like Client Master, Transaction Master, and Product Master, partner with business and data teams, and drive data quality, governance, and lineage initiatives at scale.

Qualifications

• 8-10+ years of experience in Data Product Management or similar data-focused roles.
• Strong experience within Financial Services.
• Asset Management or Wealth Management data experience preferred.
• Proven experience owning and delivering multiple enterprise data products.
• Strong hands-on SQL and data analysis skills.
• Experience with large and complex enterprise datasets.
• Experience with Snowflake, Databricks, or similar technologies.
• Strong understanding of Data Governance, Data Quality, Metadata Management, Data Lineage, Enterprise Data Models.
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, or similar product/project management tools.
• Excellent stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end lifecycle of enterprise data products such as Client Master, Transaction Master, Product Master.
• Define and manage product roadmaps, priorities, backlogs, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Work with business, finance, operations, data, and engineering teams to gather and translate requirements.
• Conduct discovery sessions and identify business and data challenges.
• Perform hands-on data analysis, data profiling, validation, anomaly detection, and data quality checks.
• Define data quality standards, governance requirements, metadata, data dictionaries, and lineage.
• Work with data engineers and architects on data models, pipelines, and platform design.
• Define and track product KPIs, adoption metrics, and data quality measures.
• Present product roadmaps, business cases, and project updates to senior leadership.
• Manage multiple data products, priorities, risks, dependencies, and stakeholders simultaneously.
• Leverage AI and automation tools to improve data analysis and product delivery.

Skills

8-10+ years data product management

Financial Services

Asset Management data

SQL

Data analysis

Snowflake / Databricks

Data Governance

Data Quality

Metadata Management

Data Lineage

Enterprise Data Models

Jira

Confluence

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Snowflake

Databricks

Job description

Location: New York, NY Hybrid, 2 3 days onsite
Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Data Product Owner to lead enterprise data products supporting critical business, client, and investment management functions.

This is a hands-on role requiring strong experience working with both business stakeholders and data engineering teams. The ideal candidate should be comfortable owning product strategy and roadmaps while also performing hands-on data analysis using SQL and enterprise data platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end lifecycle of enterprise data products such as Client Master, Transaction Master, Product Master, and other foundational datasets.

• Define and manage product roadmaps, priorities, backlogs, user stories, and acceptance criteria.

• Work closely with business, finance, operations, data, and engineering teams to gather and translate requirements.

• Conduct discovery sessions and identify business and data challenges.

• Perform hands-on data analysis, data profiling, validation, anomaly detection, and data quality checks.

• Define data quality standards, governance requirements, metadata, data dictionaries, and lineage.

• Work with data engineers and architects on data models, pipelines, and platform design.

• Define and track product KPIs, adoption metrics, and data quality measures.

• Present product roadmaps, business cases, and project updates to senior leadership.

• Manage multiple data products, priorities, risks, dependencies, and stakeholders simultaneously.

• Leverage AI and automation tools to improve data analysis and product delivery.

Required Skills

• 8 10+ years of experience in Data Product Management, Data Product Ownership, or similar data-focused roles.

• Strong experience within Financial Services.

• Experience in Asset Management or Wealth Management is highly preferred.

• Proven experience owning and delivering multiple enterprise data products.

• Strong hands-on SQL and data analysis skills.

• Experience working with large and complex enterprise datasets.

• Experience with platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, or similar technologies.

• Strong understanding of:

  • Data Governance

  • Data Quality

  • Metadata Management

  • Data Lineage

  • Enterprise Data Models

• Experience with Jira, Confluence, or similar product/project management tools.

• Excellent stakeholder management and executive communication skills.

• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment.

Preferred Experience

• Asset Management or Wealth Management data experience.

• Portfolio, position, AUM, flows, investor reporting, trade, or settlement data.

• Generative AI, LLM-based workflows, or AI-powered analytics tools.

• Third-party data vendor evaluation and management.

Important

This is a Full-Time / Permanent opportunity.

Candidates must be visa independent and able to work in the United States without employer sponsorship now or in the future.