NiSource - Columbus, OH
posted 5 months ago
The Data Product Owner is a pivotal role at NiSource, responsible for ensuring that the Central Data Lakehouse is designed and developed as a singular source of truth to support current and future analytics use cases. This position requires a strategic mindset to create and maintain the vision and value for foundational data products. The Data Product Owner will continually reprioritize the backlog of defects and new development requests, collaborating closely with Technology leadership and stakeholders to align on priorities and deliverables. In this role, you will provide business-minded thought leadership throughout all phases of data development, which includes intake, work initiation, iteration planning, and project estimations. You will be responsible for developing business requirements, managing communications between Technology and business units, resolving blockers and support needs, and conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to ensure that releases meet the necessary standards. Additionally, you will evaluate potential impacts to data products, coordinate with stakeholders, and serve as a steward for data governance, access rights, audits, and defect resolution. The ideal candidate will possess in-depth knowledge and understanding of data architecture and database concepts, particularly within the Azure Cloud platform. You will serve as a product owner for the IT Data Lake development team, developing a backlog and prioritizing requirements to ensure that the data lake meets the analytics needs of the organization. Your responsibilities will also include conducting current state business landscape analysis, supporting the Data Architecture group with enhancements to the logical model for the enterprise data lake, and partnering with IT to develop strategies that ensure the health of tools, platforms, and processes that enable data access for analytics purposes.