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About Eleven Recruiting

We are a specialized technology staffing agency supporting professional and financial services companies. Why do we stand out in technology staffing? We listen and act as advisors for our candidates on how they can best add value, find interesting projects, and pave a path for career advancement. We advocate for best pay, diversity in tech, and best job-fit for every candidate we place.

Our client, a global investment firm, is seeking an experienced Product Owner to join their team in Los Angeles, CA!

Responsibilities:

Program Management

• Foster and influence strategic vision for the platform.
• Develop and maintain a transparent product roadmap and backlog.
• Manage Stakeholder expectations and prioritize work efforts.
• Evolve inter- and intra-departmental collaboration.
• Oversee project execution and production support.

Solution Architecture

• Collaboration on the development of thoughtful, creative, and technologically sound solutions on the platform to meet or exceed business requirements.
• Champion adherence to data governance principles, policies, and best practices.
• Assess all major impacts of solutions on the core data model.
• Coordinate and communicate impacts to downstream systems, monitoring quality, SLAs, and governance.

Vendor Management

• Act as primary liaison between vendor(s) and business and serve as primary point of escalation for service or product enhancement requests.
• Oversee contract/invoice and licensing management.

Project Management

• Manage/approve program/project budgeting, forecasting, and expenses.
• Manage against expected hours and timelines for project configuration efforts.
• Coordinate requirements and review meetings with business stakeholders to gather and validate requirements.
• Execute User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and training.
• Provide and oversee communication and status reporting.

Business Analysis

• Gather and document business requirements and current/future-state processes.
• Translate requirements into actionable stories for delivery within the agile scrum model.
• Communicate prioritized business requirements to the scrum team and define acceptance criteria.
• Perform root cause analysis on issues encountered.
• Review and enrich user stories and epics as needed to support backlog refinement and grooming.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Finance, or other relevant discipline.
• 8 years plus as a Technical Product Owner, MDM Platform Lead with a focus on MDM solution design and development or similar roles.
• In-depth understanding of MDM concepts, data modeling, data integration, data quality, and data governance principles.
• Experience with data profiling, data cleansing, reconciliation and data matching techniques.
• Experience managing and growing direct reports.
• Experience with operating in the grey and comfortable establishing structure in a fluid, fast paced environment.
• Knowledge of Project Management (tools, tactics, and methodologies), operating policies, procedures and practices.
• Experience with large scale technology implementation, custom development and data and systems integrations.
• Experience with Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies and best practices.

Preferred:

• Prior experience working within the Semarchy xDM platform or comparable product (Informatica, Reltio, Profisee, SAP MDG, etc.).
• Professional Scrum Product Owner or Scrum Master Certifications; experience with agile scrum methodology.
• Well versed in the use of the Atlassian suite of products (Jira, Confluence).
• Knowledge of the Financial Services industry, specifically the Alternative Asset Management arena.
• Expertise in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Visio.

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