Product Owner

Position Summary

This position is an experienced and strategic Business Analyst to join the Data Platform & Analytics team. This role blends business analysis, light product management, and Scrum facilitation responsibilities to drive the successful delivery of enterprise-wide data products and platform capabilities. Incumbent works at the intersection of business needs and technical execution—translating goals into actionable requirements, helping prioritize delivery, and ensuring the scalable evolution of a modern, cloud-native data platform, and organizational objectives.

Essential Functions and Duties

• Engage business users, data engineers, architects, and BI developers to gather, define, and refine detailed business and technical requirements across diverse initiatives.
• Translate complex business problems into scalable data solutions—spanning ingestion pipelines, curated data layers, and reporting or analytical models.
• Act as a proxy Product Owner, defining product scope, writing epics and user stories, and prioritizing features and enhancements based on stakeholder impact and technical feasibility.
• Serve as a Scrum Master or Agile Lead, facilitating sprint ceremonies (planning, stand-ups, retrospectives), tracking team velocity, and managing work in Jira or Azure DevOps.
• Lead discovery and requirements workshops with stakeholders across finance, operations, supply chain, commercial, and other enterprise teams.
• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation, including process flows, source-to-target mappings, data dictionaries, and user training materials.
• Validate development work through UAT coordination, data testing, and QA, ensuring the final deliverables meet business intent.
• Analyze and troubleshoot data issues using SQL and reporting tools to support quality assurance and root cause analysis.
• Contribute to platform adoption and maturity by supporting change management activities and self-service enablement initiatives.
• Collaborate with platform leadership on roadmap planning, backlog grooming, and continuous improvement efforts.
• Adheres specifically to all company policies and procedures, Federal and State regulations, and laws.
• Display dedication to position responsibilities and achieve assigned goals and objectives.
• Always represent the Company in a professional manner and appearance.
• Understand and internalize the Company’s purpose. Display loyalty to the Company and its organizational values.
• Display enthusiasm and dedication to learning how to be more effective on the job and share knowledge with others.
• Work effectively with co-workers, internal and external customers, and others by sharing ideas in a constructive and positive manner; listen to and objectively consider ideas and suggestions from others; keep commitments; keep others informed of work progress, timetables, and issues; address problems and issues constructively to find mutually acceptable and practical business solutions; address others by name, title, or other respectful identifiers, and respect the diversity of our workforce in actions, words, and deeds.
• Comply with the policies and procedures stated in the Injury and Illness Prevention Program by always working in a safe manner and immediately reporting any injury, safety hazard, or program violation.
• Ensure conduct is consistent with all Compliance Program Policies and procedures when engaging in any activity on the company's behalf. Immediately report any concerns or violations.
• Other duties as assigned.

Education, Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

Preferred Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a related field of study or four (4) years of relevant experience in lieu of degree. 

Required Experience:

• Minimum seven (7) years [eleven (11) for non-degreed candidates] of experience as a Business Analyst, Product Analyst, or hybrid BA/PM in a data engineering, analytics, or enterprise platform.
• Demonstrated experience acting as a Product Owner or working closely with product managers and delivery teams to ship platform features or data capabilities.
• Strong knowledge of Databricks and modern ELT/ETL practices in a cloud-native environment.
• Advanced proficiency with SQL for data exploration, validation, and troubleshooting.
• Hands-on experience with Fivetran, dbt, Azure Data Factory, or other data pipeline tools.
• Deep understanding of Agile delivery frameworks and collaboration tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps).
• Experience working with source system data from platforms like SAP, Salesforce, or Workday, including understanding upstream business processes.

Preferred Experience:

• Experience managing or contributing to the delivery of internal data products, self-service analytics environments, or data marketplaces.
• Familiarity with medallion architecture, delta tables, streaming vs. batch pipelines, and Unity Catalog.
• Understanding of data governance, quality frameworks, and metadata management best practices.
• Background in business domains such as finance, supply chain, customer operations, or commercial strategy.

Required Skills:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to adapt messages for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong facilitation and collaboration skills, with the ability to lead meetings and drive alignment across cross-functional teams.
• Self-starter with excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, and a bias toward action.
• Flexible and adaptive to changing priorities and fast-paced delivery environments.

Professional Certification:

• CSPO, CAP, CSBA, PMI-PBA or other business analyst certifications a plus

Physical requirements

Vision, hearing, speech, and movements require the use of wrists, hands, and/or fingers. Must be able to view a computer screen for extended periods and sit for extended periods. Must have the ability to work the hours and days required to complete the essential functions of the position, as scheduled. The employee occasionally lifts to 50 lbs. and occasionally kneels and bends. Must have the ability to travel occasionally. Working conditions include normal office and warehouse settings. After-hours support and weekend support as needed are requirements of the position

Mental Demands

Learning, thinking, concentration, and the ability to work under pressure, particularly during busy times. Must be able to pay close attention to detail and be able to work as a member of a team to ensure excellent customer service. Must be able to interact effectively with co-workers and customers and exercise self-control and diplomacy in customer and employee relations situations. Must be able to exercise discretion and appropriate judgments when needed. Must be proactive in finding solutions.

Direct Reports

No

EEO Statement

FFF Enterprises and Nufactor are an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment based on the following characteristics: race, color, religion, national origin, physical or mental disability, gender, age (40 years and over) qualified veteran and any other characteristic protected by state or federal anti-discrimination law covering employment. These categories are defined according to Government Code section 12920. The Company prohibits unlawful discrimination based on the perception that anyone has any of those characteristics or is associated with a person who has or is perceived as having any of those characteristics.