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Within Tribe Data Services, the Agile Product Owner acts as the primary representative of business stakeholders and end-users for a data product, analytical capability, reporting solution, or data domain. The Product Owner is accountable for maximizing the value delivered by the squad while ensuring alignment with the Tribe strategy, data governance principles, regulatory requirements, and business priorities.

Working closely with Data Analysts, Data Engineers, Scrum Masters, Architects, and business stakeholders, the Product Owner translates business needs into a clear and prioritized product roadmap and backlog, ensuring the continuous delivery of valuable and sustainable data solutions.

Function description

Product Vision & Strategy

• Defines and maintains the product vision, objectives, and roadmap in alignment with Tribe Data Services priorities.
• Ensures alignment between business expectations, regulatory requirements, enterprise architecture principles, and data strategy.
• Builds and communicates a compelling vision of the data product to stakeholders and squad members.
• Identifies opportunities to maximize business value through data, analytics, reporting, and self-service capabilities.
• Balances short-term business demands with long-term product sustainability and strategic objectives.

Backlog Management & Requirements

• Owns and continuously prioritizes the Product Backlog based on business value, risks, dependencies, and delivery capacity.
• Collaborates with stakeholders to capture, challenge, refine, and prioritize business needs.
• Ensure requirements are sufficiently detailed and understood before development activities begin.
• Works closely with Data Analysts to refine requirements and translate them into actionable backlog items.
• Makes prioritization and scope decisions to maximize delivered value.

Delivery & Stakeholder Management

• Ensures the squad delivers valuable increments aligned with agreed objectives and timelines.
• Acts as the primary decision-maker for functional scope and arbitration between competing priorities.
• Maintains strong relationships with business representatives, data consumers, governance bodies, and other squads.
• Coordinates with architecture, governance, security, and regulatory stakeholders when required.

Agile Ways of Working

• Actively participates in Agile ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives.
• Supports the squad in defining Sprint objectives and release planning.
• Drives continuous improvement of the product and delivery process.
• Ensures alignment between squad activities and overall product roadmap.
• Contributes to fostering a collaborative, agile, and customer-centric mindset.

Language requirements

English
Sound knowledge of English as well as (at least) one local language.

Telework

Expectation: 50% on site & 50% homeworking

Required experience / knowledge

At least 1 year of relevant experience

Technical experience

mandatory

• Proficiency with MS Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint).
• Understanding of Data Products and Data Mesh principles.

preferable

• Experience with Data Warehousing, BI platforms, Power BI, Tableau, Business Objects, Denodo, Databricks, Fabric, or cloud-based analytics solutions.

Business experience

mandatory

• Experience in Product Ownership, Business Analysis, Data Management, or Agile Delivery.
• Proven experience working in Agile environments (Scrum, SAFe, Agile@Scale).
• Experience managing cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
• Understanding of data, reporting, analytics, or information management environments.
• Experience translating business needs into actionable requirements and delivery roadmaps.
• Knowledge of stakeholder management, prioritization techniques, and value-based delivery.

preferable

• Banking or Financial Services experience.
• Knowledge of data governance and regulatory environments.

Soft skills

• Strong strategic thinking and business acumen.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Ability to work comfortably across business and technical communities.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills.
• Structured and data-driven decision-making.
• Customer and value-oriented mindset.
• Leadership without direct authority.
• Adaptability and change management capabilities.
• Ability to operate effectively in complex and highly regulated environments.