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As data is reshaping the business world, how do we provide a differentiated, data-powered service to our clients?

Success in a constantly evolving world demands businesses transform into intelligent enterprises. They must adopt technologies fueled by data to uncover new insights and make more informed decisions, and they need to ensure their use of data and technology is underpinned by trust to win credibility in the markets in which they operate.

To support this new working world and remain market leaders, EY is also transforming into a data-powered organization. Our strategic evolution enables us to provide new services and solutions, enrich client experiences and find smarter ways of working.

The Data Office is the engine driving EY’s transformation. It reframes how we find, manage, use and scale data to realize its full power and fuel new intelligent technologies. Fundamental to this transformation is the evolution and adoption of a data product approach that will unlock the value of data from across EY’s business.

As a Data Product Owner; you will be instrumental in driving a data product mindset across EY; able to build a next generation data product practice that will support EY’s global business. You will be a commercially focused, proven, delivery orientated data professional that is passionate for the transformative role of data.

With trusted access to un-paralleled volumes of data assets from across EY’s business network – how can you unlock value?

The opportunity

EY’s Data Office is looking for a proactive, dynamic, and adaptable team member to join the Organization Intelligence group. Organization Intelligence is EY’s market differentiating data product of over 240 million companies, which collates and processes data from a diverse set of sources to produce a large knowledge graph of organization, industry, and geography data. The product provides services and insights to EY’s Service Lines and clients.

The new member will join our diverse and inclusive team, based around the world, to work in an agile and high-performance environment to expand and promote our product and the services we offer to our consumers.

The Product Owner of Organization Intelligence offers a unique opportunity for anyone curious about how data services spanning a variety of data entities will empower the business going forwards. Whilst retaining many facets of the start-up culture which brought the product to market, it’s a role which combines technical programme management across multiple teams with an interface into the data-oriented capabilities of the Global Data Office.

Your key responsibilities

Reporting to the Organization Intelligence Senior Product Manager, you will be responsible for the technical delivery of the next generation of data services provided by Organization Intelligence leaning into new data products and technologies in order to meet increasing demand for services across the business.

Fundamentally, you will be responsible for the translation of business product requirements gathered by the Product Manager into technical delivery programmes scoped into quarterly Programme Increments. This includes the day to day oversight of dependencies (inbound and outbound) across the programme, sprint level delivery progress and resolving blocked items, whilst working collaboratively with team leads to identify and ideate opportunities to continuously improve Organization Intelligence’s data asset and the services it provides to consumers.

Whilst there is a mature operational model in place for the planning, every sprint brings a unique set of challenges which require management and oversight from the product owner driving further process improvement.

In return, you will satisfy your natural curiosity for data, data provenance and sources, compliance and access controls in the context of an industry leading Enterprise Data Management platform. And you will be leading and learning from a diverse team of talented data literate specialists who have successfully brought a unique product to market.

Skills and attributes for success
To qualify for the role you must have

• Analytical skills - your priorities lie in managing, assessing, and approving the product backlog. You must, therefore, be a skilled analyser and be able to critically evaluate product issues and updates to come up with rational solutions quickly.
• Communication skills – you will also act as the bridge between stakeholders, consumers and the development team. You must be an active listener and be able to communicate each sides’ needs, requirements, and concerns without anything getting lost in translation.
• Collaboration skills – as the intermediary between Scrum teams, you must be comfortable with constant collaboration, generally with remote teams, however also regularly face to face with London team members. You must have a teamwork-focused mindset and be comfortable with delegation, conflict resolution, and working with different personalities and emotions.
• Technical awareness - as a leading member of a Scrum team, you must have tangible technical skills. Development, design, UX, and coding are all areas that product owners should be familiar with to do their job well.
• Project management - you should be well-versed in Scrum and Agile frameworks for project management and familiar with all relevant terminology and ideas. Even though you may not be a project manager, you must still understand project management processes and have the confidence to lead a team to achieve project goals.

Ideally, you’ll also have

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  Experience in working on platform programmes
• Experience in working on data centric projects, bonus points for data wrangling, SQL and python
• Experience in leading high performing teams; guiding, mentoring and empowering other engineers, analysts and developers, to bring the best out of all team members and to continually grow and develop all team members.

What we look for

• Self-starter
• Well organized
• Strong attention to detail
• Multi-tasker able to focus on the short term, and also over the horizon
• Ability to swiftly triage how external factors impact the programme
• Ability to communicate to all levels
• Stamina – endurance as well as sprints

What we offer

As part of this role, you'll work in a highly integrated, global team with the opportunity and tools to grow, develop and drive your career forward. Here, you can combine global opportunity with flexible working. The EY benefits package goes above and beyond too, focusing on your physical, emotional, financial and social well-being. Your recruiter can talk to you about the benefits available in your country. Here’s a snapshot of what we offer:

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

Please apply to this role only through the ‘Apply’ link (not through the local office). Your application will then be routed to the appropriate recruiting team.

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