Technical Product Owner

Technical Product Owner
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Find your next opportunity in the Financial Services Industry. ECLARO is looking for a Technical Product Owner for our client in Philadelphia, PA.
ECLARO's client is one of the largest mutual life insurance companies and provides long-term care insurance, mutual funds and retirement-plan services across the US. If you're up to the challenge, then take a chance at this rewarding opportunity!
Position Overview:

• Seeking a technically fluent, dynamic Technical Product Owner to support the implementation of the HRIS Integration Platform vision and to drive the development of impactful data and analytics solutions.
• This role partners closely with IT Product Managers, Architecture, Business stakeholders, Engineering leads, as well as business analysts, BI developers, report consumers, and data and BI architects to translate strategic goals and product vision into executable workstreams, actionable roadmap items, and refined backlog items.
• As a lead, hands-on member of an agile scrum team, the Product Owner is responsible for transforming complex business needs into deliverables that align with enterprise priorities, long-term data strategy, technical feasibility, and data governance standards.
• This role combines strong technical skills with strategic thinking and excellent communication, guiding the delivery of high-quality, scalable, and insightful integration and data products while ensuring consistent alignment to business priorities.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with IT Product Managers and Architecture to refine and implement the product vision through actionable backlog items.
• Work with Engineering leads to ensure technical feasibility and alignment with platform architecture and data lineage requirements.
• Author and manage detailed user stories for API development and streaming workflows, including RESTful and event-driven integrations.
• Understand and document data lineage across processing steps, ensuring traceability, auditability, and compliance with enterprise standards.
• Facilitate sprint planning, backlog grooming, and demos to ensure delivery of high-impact features.
• Partner with external vendors and internal stakeholders to support onboarding and downstream integrations.
• Coordinate cross-team dependencies and align deliverables across Agile Release Trains (ARTs).
• Own and manage the product backlog, continuously refining features and user stories.
• Translate high-level business vision and reporting needs into product roadmaps, epics, and user stories.
• Define clear acceptance criteria and ensure deliverables meet quality standards and stakeholder expectations.
• Engage with business analysts, BI creators, report consumers, and architects to elicit, document, and validate data and reporting requirements.
• Lead discussions to understand analytics needs, explore technical solutions, and prioritize delivery based on business value.
• Map reporting and data use cases to available solutions within the existing architecture.
• Actively participate in Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, retrospectives, demos, and PI planning sessions.
• Work collaboratively with developers, QA, and Scrum Master to ensure clarity, delivery, and continuous improvement.
• Review data products for completeness, accuracy, and alignment with acceptance criteria before release.
• Provide regular updates to stakeholders on progress, challenges, and alignment to business objectives.
• Serve as the point of contact for escalations related to data products or backlog prioritization.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in product ownership or enterprise application integration, preferably in HRIS or insurance domains.
• Proven experience writing technical stories for Java-based APIs, Kafka streaming, and data transformation pipelines.
• Strong understanding of data lineage, including how data flows through ingestion, transformation, and consumption layers.
• Familiarity with HRIS platforms such as Workday, ADP, or Alight.
• Experience with cloud-native environments (AWS, Azure) and platforms like FineOS.
• Strong technical acumen in data product and BI solution delivery.
• Deep understanding of data modeling techniques and architectural patterns (Star Schema, normalized / denormalized models, etc.).
• Experience working with BI and data wrangling tools (Tableau, Power BI, etc.).
• Proficiency in SQL, Python, and stored procedures for querying and transforming data.
• Familiarity with cloud data platforms and tools, particularly:
  • AWS Redshift
  • Tableau
  • AWS SageMaker
  • Power BI experience is a plus
• Must be able to manage multiple projects simultaneously at various stages of development while prioritizing commitments and managing time effectively.
• Insurance Industry experience with Disability, FMLA, Life products, preferred.
• Strategic thinker with a detail-oriented mindset.
• Strong communicator able to tailor messaging to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Self-driven with a passion for solving business problems through data.
• Collaborative, diplomatic, and flexible in dynamic team environments.
• A team mindset and the ability to adapt.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working in large, matrixed organizations with diverse stakeholder groups.
• Background in data governance, data quality, and metadata management.
• Familiarity with CI / CD practices and version control for data pipelines or BI artifacts.

Pay Rate: $80 / Hour
If hired, you will enjoy the following ECLARO Benefits:

• 401k Retirement Savings Plan administered by Merrill Lynch
• Commuter Check Pretax Commuter Benefits
• Eligibility to purchase Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance through ECLARO

If interested, you may contact:
Melissa Francisco


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Equal Opportunity Employer: ECLARO values diversity and does not discriminate based on Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status, in compliance with all applicable laws.