Strategic Data Product Owner - Agile & Governance

Apex Systems; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 77,000 - 83,000; Full time

Job summary

Everforth Apex is seeking an Agile Data Product Owner to translate business priorities into a governed, data-driven product backlog in Charlotte, NC. This role focuses on delivering trusted data capabilities across governance, quality, lineage, and analytics.

Partner with Product Managers, Data Analysts, Technology, and Risk & Compliance to maximize business value while maintaining regulatory alignment. Backlog ownership, PI planning support, and end-to-end delivery are key responsibilities.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Agile Product Ownership, Product Management, Scrum, Business Analysis, or Data Product Management experience.
• Strong experience managing and prioritizing product backlogs, defining user stories, features, and acceptance criteria.
• Experience with Data Product Management, including data governance, data quality, metadata, lineage, reporting, analytics, and enterprise data platforms.
• Expertise using Jira and Confluence for backlog management, dependency tracking, prioritization, and Agile delivery execution.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to work across business, technology, governance, risk, compliance, and delivery teams.
• Plusses: Agile certifications such as CSPO, PSPO, SAFe POPM, SAFe Agilist, or PMI-ACP.
• Experience with enterprise data warehouses, cloud-based data platforms, reporting, analytics, and data governance programs.
• Experience supporting data quality remediation, platform modernization, and governance initiatives.
• Strong understanding of regulatory, audit, compliance, and risk management requirements.

Responsibilities

• Own and prioritize the product backlog to align with product strategy, business priorities, and stakeholder needs.
• Define and refine features, user stories, acceptance criteria, and business readiness requirements.
• Partner with Product Managers to align roadmap priorities and product vision.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies including daily standups, backlog refinement, sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives, and Product Owner synchronization sessions.
• Collaborate with Data Governance, Technology, Risk, Compliance, and business stakeholders to ensure policy and regulatory alignment.
• Manage dependencies across teams, products, and shared data capabilities.
• Translate data product requirements into actionable delivery work involving data sourcing, ingestion, metadata, lineage, data quality, reporting, analytics, and governance requirements.
• Review completed work and formally accept delivery based on acceptance criteria and Definition of Done.
• Support Program Increment (PI) Planning activities including dependency management, feature sequencing, capacity alignment, and objective development.
• Define, monitor, and communicate product success metrics, adoption metrics, business value outcomes, and data quality objectives.
• Facilitate stakeholder alignment and provide transparency into delivery progress, risks, priorities, and dependencies.

Skills

Agile Product Ownership

Product Management

Scrum

Business Analysis

Data Product Management

Data Governance

Data Quality

Metadata

Lineage

Reporting

Analytics

Jira

Confluence

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Everforth Apex is seeking an Agile Data Product Owner to translate business priorities into a governed, data-driven product backlog in Charlotte, NC. This role focuses on delivering trusted data capabilities across governance, quality, lineage, and analytics.

Partner with Product Managers, Data Analysts, Technology, and Risk & Compliance to maximize business value while maintaining regulatory alignment. Backlog ownership, PI planning support, and end-to-end delivery are key responsibilities.