Job Title:

Senior Data Product Owner

Location:

Block 23

What you'll do:

As the Senior Data Product Owner, you are the one to lead the continuous delivery teams responsible for the data solutions required by our Regulatory Reporting program. You will facilitate the use of agile best practices and continuous improvement in delivering internal data flows and analytics data products associated with Large Financial Institution (LFI) reporting and standard Regulatory Reporting requirements. You are accountable for the daily operations, agile ceremonies, and Epic/Feature/Story work breakdown for multiple scrum teams.

As the Senior Data Product Owner, the continuous delivery teams you lead consists of data engineers, data analyst, data modelers, and QA engineers. You will ensure the backlog and committed work are properly defined, groomed, and organized. You will lead daily stand ups, run retrospectives, facilitate sprint demos, and work closely with the Data Platform Product Manager to ensure data products delivered meet stakeholder expectations. This role requires strong communication and collaboration skills to develop relationships across the organization and articulate the progress, challenges, and improvement opportunities that clearly articulates when business value will be delivered. The Senior Data Product Owner will interface with business leadership as part of program updates and statuses.

What we are looking for:

You will act as a servant leader for your team(s) in coordinating the delivery and scrum activities impacting all facets of data product delivery.Accountable for managing the Azure DevOps board for all data related Regulatory Reporting Epics and Features and prioritizing all backlog for Delivery Team execution.Publish information and verbalize clear communication to management and to the team regarding process, obstacles, changes, and key milestones for quarterly team commitments.Coordinate evaluation of scope change, estimates, priority, and trade-offs with Business and Technical Stakeholders.Establish Sprint schedule, ceremonies (daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, sprint reviews & retrospectives), evaluate and introduce sprint execution velocity and lead/coordinate corresponding activities.Actively plan for, participate in and contribute to PI Planning events.Ensure adherence to standard (Agile) process, use of tools, established project delivery standards.Ensure sprint schedules and reviews are posted centrally for cross-team and stakeholder visibility.Facilitate scrum of scrums, as needed.Champions continuous improvement activities to reduce waste and increase productivity; coaches’ teams to conduct continuous improvement events, including business and technical stakeholders.Work with required teams for environment readiness needed for the project completion.Collaborate with Dev, QA, UAT, business teams, and production support team to achieve established data product delivery goals.Create an environment of collaboration within the teams that allows for open dialogue and productive solutions for resolving conflicts.

What you need to have:

The candidate must have 5+ years of experience of running projects and teams using the scrum, agile, or scaled agile methodology.Expert in using Azure DevOps or JIRA for planning and execution.Experience in executing to a product vision and goals and communicate product workflow to keep colleagues informed.Experience promoting the agile mindset including challenging and removing organizational and cultural impediments, constantly guiding teams in discovery and learning.Experience with facilitating the discussions of complex, high value IT delivery projects that require the coordination of development work or technology work on multiple platforms to achieve desired outcomes.Able to work/collaborate across the organization, internally and externally, to ensure alignments, dependencies, and support.Experience in interaction at Board/Executive management level of businesses.Experience working in an onshore-offshore model.Strong negotiation, influencing, critical thinking, coaching and facilitation skills.Excellent verbal and written communication skills and exhibit strong executive presence.Experience in Regulatory Reporting is preferred.Experience delivering & operating in the Banking industry is preferred.Agile/SAFe Certifications is preferred.Experience working in RTE and/or Product Owner roles is preferred.Experience running data management programs and products is preferred.

Benefits you’ll love:
We offer all the important things you'd want — like competitive salaries, an ownership stake in the company, medical and dental insurance, time off, a great 401k matching program, tuition assistance program, an employee volunteer program, and a wellness program. In addition, you’ll have the opportunity to bolster your business knowledge, learning the ins and outs of how successful companies operate and manage their finances, giving you invaluable hands-on experience to help grow your career!

About the company:

Western Alliance Bank is a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Alliance Bancorporation. Alliance Bank of Arizona, Alliance Association Bank, Bank of Nevada, Bridge Bank, First Independent Bank, and Torrey Pines Bank are divisions of Western Alliance Bank; Member FDIC.  AmeriHome Mortgage is a Western Alliance Bank company.

Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to equal employment and will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, color, religion, age, nation origin, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or genetic information. Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process and/or need an alternative method of applying, please email HR@westernalliancebank.com or call 602-386-2488.  When contacting us, please provide your contact information and state the nature of your accessibility issue.  We will only respond to inquiries concerning requests that involve a reasonable accommodation in the application process.

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