What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Data Product Owner - Retail Wealth position at Voya Financial?
Together we fight for everyone’s opportunity for a better financial future.
We will do this together — with customers, partners and colleagues. We will fight for others, not against: We will stand up for and champion everyone’s access to opportunities. The status quo is not good enough … we believe every individual and every community deserves access to financial opportunities. We are determined to support both individuals and communities in reaching a better financial future. We know that reaching this future depends on our actions today.
Like our Purpose Statement, Voya believes in being bold and committed to action. We are committed to a work environment where the differences that we are born with — and those we acquire throughout our lives — are understood, valued and intentionally pursued. We believe that our employees own our culture and have a responsibility to foster an environment where we all feel comfortable bringing our whole selves to work. Purposefully bringing our differences together to positively influence our culture, serve our clients and enrich our communities is essential to our vision.
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Job Summary
The Senior Data Product Owner drives discovery and strategy for data products and solutions, deeply understanding customer needs and market trends. Works cross-functionally to shape product direction, influence priorities, and optimize value delivery. The Senior Product Owner holds domain context for datasets and helps tech translate business process into deliverables. Works with the business domain owner to deliver business value. Mentors junior product owners.
A significant program will be focused on Retail Wealth Management initiatives. Your experience with retail wealth business and technologies along with your experience with advisor technologies will be highly valued.
Responsibilities
Voya is committed to pay that’s fair and equitable, which means comparable pay for comparable roles and responsibilities.
The below annual base salary range reflects the expected hiring range(s) for this position in the location(s) listed. In addition to base salary, Voya offers incentive opportunities (i.e., annual cash incentives, sales incentives, and/or long-term incentives) based on the role to reward the achievement of annual performance objectives. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Voya Financial is willing to pay at the time of this posting.
Actual compensation offered may vary from the posted salary range based upon the candidate’s geographic location, work experience, education, licensure requirements and/or skill level and will be finalized at the time of offer. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.
$111,150 - $165,110 USD
Be Well. Stay Well.
Voya provides the resources that can make a difference in your lives. To us, this means thriving physically, financially, socially and emotionally. Voya benefits are designed to help you do just that. That’s why we offer an array of plans, programs, tools and resources with one goal in mind: To help you and your family be well and stay well.
What We Offer
Critical Skills
At Voya, we have identified the following critical skills which are key to success in our culture:
Equal Employment Opportunity
Voya Financial is an equal-opportunity employer. Voya Financial provides equal opportunity to qualified individuals regardless of race, color, sex, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, disability, veteran status, creed, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other status protected by state or local law.
Reasonable Accommodations
Voya is committed to the inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Voya will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please reference resources for applicants with disabilities.
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We will do this together — with customers, partners and colleagues. We will fight for others, not against: We will stand up for and champion everyone’s access to opportunities. The status quo is not good enough … we believe every individual and every community deserves access to financial opportunities. We are determined to support both individuals and communities in reaching a better financial future. We know that reaching this future depends on our actions today.
Like our Purpose Statement, Voya believes in being bold and committed to action. We are committed to a work environment where the differences that we are born with — and those we acquire throughout our lives — are understood, valued and intentionally pursued. We believe that our employees own our culture and have a responsibility to foster an environment where we all feel comfortable bringing our whole selves to work. Purposefully bringing our differences together to positively influence our culture, serve our clients and enrich our communities is essential to our vision.
Are you ready to join a company with a strong purpose and a winning culture? Start your Voyage – Apply Now
Job Summary
The Senior Data Product Owner drives discovery and strategy for data products and solutions, deeply understanding customer needs and market trends. Works cross-functionally to shape product direction, influence priorities, and optimize value delivery. The Senior Product Owner holds domain context for datasets and helps tech translate business process into deliverables. Works with the business domain owner to deliver business value. Mentors junior product owners.
A significant program will be focused on Retail Wealth Management initiatives. Your experience with retail wealth business and technologies along with your experience with advisor technologies will be highly valued.
Responsibilities
- Act as a voice of the customers – understand the business needs and translate them into technical requirements for the Retail Wealth Management data domain.
- Work with the business partners to define and prioritize the product / domain roadmap.
- Understand and articulate the technology vision and strategy, ensure that technology solution is successfully aligned with the business goals and priorities.
- Design and implement data solutions in collaboration with architects. Measures success with analytics
- Collaborates effectively with engineering to translate business needs to technical features. Support development teams with data requests and specifications
- Define user stories based on customer requirements. Analyze business needs and translate into data requirements for a technical audience, including creating user stories, synthesizing use cases, defining acceptance criteria, documenting features overview.
- Manage the Product Backlog effectively to maximize the delivered value, including developing and clearly communicating program increment or sprint goals and priorities; creating and clearly communicating product backlog items; ensuring that the product backlog is transparent, visible and understood.
- Act as a bridge between customers / partners and engineering teams, ensuring effective communication and validation of solutions
- Deliver solutions to businesses and coach them on usage
- Mentors junior product staff; builds partnerships with engineering, business, and internal stakeholders.
- Crafts compelling stories to gain buy-in from leadership and customers.
- 10 years of professional experience in technology and or business analysis.
- 5 years of data or product experience, with increasing responsibility.
- Value oriented.
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and influence without authority.
- Proven experience in a product owner role in an agile/scrum software development organization and understanding of the development lifecycle.
- Proven ability to manage multiple, concurrent work items with minimal supervision.
- Hands-on experience with cloud data platforms (Azure, Databricks, Snowflake).
- Proficient in defining product strategies and OKRs.
- Strong SQL/data querying skills; basic understanding of data modeling.
- Excellent decision-making ability to manage a complex ever changing priority list and resolve conflicts to competing priorities. Experience managing competing priorities and stakeholder expectations.
- Excellent communication and influencing skills, both verbal and written. Capable of collaborating effectively functional communication to technical stakeholders, technical communication to non-technical stakeholders).
- Strong analyst with a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements.
- Strong problem solver. Ability to identify where focus is needed and bring clarity to business objectives, requirements and priorities.
- Business and Functional requirement knowledge (i.e. elicitation of requirements, planning, documentation, analysis, and alignment to standards).
- Ability to embrace, adapt and lead through change, fosters effective partnerships and drive effective collaboration with peers and vendor resources.
Voya is committed to pay that’s fair and equitable, which means comparable pay for comparable roles and responsibilities.
The below annual base salary range reflects the expected hiring range(s) for this position in the location(s) listed. In addition to base salary, Voya offers incentive opportunities (i.e., annual cash incentives, sales incentives, and/or long-term incentives) based on the role to reward the achievement of annual performance objectives. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Voya Financial is willing to pay at the time of this posting.
Actual compensation offered may vary from the posted salary range based upon the candidate’s geographic location, work experience, education, licensure requirements and/or skill level and will be finalized at the time of offer. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.
$111,150 - $165,110 USD
Be Well. Stay Well.
Voya provides the resources that can make a difference in your lives. To us, this means thriving physically, financially, socially and emotionally. Voya benefits are designed to help you do just that. That’s why we offer an array of plans, programs, tools and resources with one goal in mind: To help you and your family be well and stay well.
What We Offer
- Health, dental, vision and life insurance plans
- 401(k) Savings plan – with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%)
- Voya Retirement Plan – employer paid cash balance retirement plan (4%)
- Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year
- Paid time off – including 20 days paid time off, nine paid company holidays and a flexible Diversity Celebration Day.
- Paid volunteer time — 40 hours per calendar year
Critical Skills
At Voya, we have identified the following critical skills which are key to success in our culture:
- Customer Focused: Passionate drive to delight our customers and offer unique solutions that deliver on their expectations.
- Critical Thinking: Thoughtful process of analyzing data and problem solving data to reach a well-reasoned solution.
- Team Mentality: Partnering effectively to drive our culture and execute on our common goals.
- Business Acumen: Appreciation and understanding of the financial services industry in order to make sound business decisions.
- Learning Agility: Openness to new ways of thinking and acquiring new skills to retain a competitive advantage.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Voya Financial is an equal-opportunity employer. Voya Financial provides equal opportunity to qualified individuals regardless of race, color, sex, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, disability, veteran status, creed, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other status protected by state or local law.
Reasonable Accommodations
Voya is committed to the inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Voya will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please reference resources for applicants with disabilities.
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