Product Owner – Snowflake Initiatives

Job title: Product Owner – Snowflake Initiatives

Company: Unum


Job description: Our Story
Unum Technology Centre in Carlow serves as a strategic software development and IT services centre supporting Unum, a leading provider of income protection in the US. Our team of IT professionals build solutions and critical business applications to digitally transform the way we do business.Unum is seeking a dynamic and experienced Product Owner to drive development of our Snowflake capabilities as part of our broader Modern Data Platform delivery. Aligned closely with Enterprise Data Scrum Teams, this role bridges IT, business and finance functions, ensuring seamless collaboration to achieve business objectives.As an Agile leader, the Product Owner drives the execution of a prioritized roadmap, delivering impactful features while maintaining a clear focus on what matters most for customers. This includes defining requirements, managing delivery timelines, and fostering alignment across stakeholders.The Product Owner is also responsible for operational readiness, proactively mobilizing teams to ensure the business is prepared to adopt, utilize, and support new capabilities prior to their launch. For more complex or expansive roadmaps, the Product Owner may report to a Senior Product Owner.The Role

• Contributes to business case development and cost benefit analysis within their product scope
• Ensures IT delivery roadmap is aligned to the strategic annual product roadmap
• Informs business around opportunities and executes on the product roadmap
• Sets product and adoption KPIs with business partners and derives cascading metrics down through to the development and delivery activities
• Maintains holistic understanding of relevant client personas and has the ability to engage with internal and external clients to test assumptions as well as being able to understand and articulate to the Agile Team the client needs.
• Translates client needs from discovery into product backlog work items
• Ensures on an ongoing basis that client feedback is represented and influences prioritization, trade off, and roadmap decisions
• Builds and maintains an updated and prioritized product backlog
• Accountable to ensure the backlog represents technical bodies of work required for long term technical integrity.
• Accountable for creation and ownership of product backlog work items including acceptance criteria (Features, User Stories)
• Fully engages and leverages methodologies outlined in relevant product area. Eg. Customer Journey, Agile Methodologies, Program Execution Framework ie. Program Ways of Working
• Maintains a set of tools and skills to elicit client insights and feedback. Eg. Focus Groups, Surveys, use-ability Sessions, Interviews, Use of Prototyping
• Maintains set of tactical agile techniques in relation to work decomposition, planning, estimation, backlog tooling, status reporting
• Builds and maintains current internal business expertise relevant to area of product development
• Engages in industry analysis of trends, technology, and market advancements
• Demonstrates active engagement and sharing of practices in Product Owner forums

What you offer

• Bachelor’s degree preferred, or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Experience working on data warehouse projects, preferably involving Snowflake
• Strong verbal, written communication and presentation skills, including the ability to translate technical subject matter to nontechnical audiences
• Demonstrated success in progressive delivery of technical projects.
• Demonstrates the ability to clearly define, articulate and measure business value.
• Proven ability to lead a team, influence with and without authority, challenge the status quo, and create a competitive advantage for the organization.
• Product Owner certification preferred (PSPO and/or CSPO)
• Proven understanding of product management lifecycle and agile methodologies.
• Experience in developing and understanding digital technology roadmaps including identification and understanding of technical requirements.
• Creative thinker and problem solver who can confidently express complex ideas in an articulate, concise manner.
• Demonstrates high levels of ownership and accountability. Self-starter and ability to effectively chart a path forward in ambiguous situations or under a general direction.
• Demonstrates the ability to champion change and support teams through change.
• Able to effectively coach, mentor, and identify and address skill needs and gaps for continuous improvement of self and team.
• Some travel may be required

#LI-SF1#LI-Hybrid#HybridWhat We Offer
Our size and successful history in Carlow means we can offer you exceptional development and progression, supported by continual learning programs, IT Certifications & third level tuition reimbursement. We offer work-life-balance with flexible working arrangements (including hybrid) and initiatives in support of your well-being. Our attractive range of benefits and reward initiatives includes competitive compensation, 25 days annual leave, paid health insurance, pension scheme, annual performance-based bonus, paid maternity/paternity/adoptive leave, reward programs, and an opportunity to engage with charity and community activities.Company: Unum

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Location: Carlow

Job date: Wed, 12 Feb 2025 23:33:25 GMT

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