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Platform Strategy Vision: Define and own the roadmap for the Finance Data Hub platform, ensuring it aligns with business objectives and supports broader data product initiatives. Technical Requirements: Collaborate with architects, data engineers, and governance teams to define and prioritise platform capabilities, including scalability, security, resilience, and data lineage. Integration Management: Ensure the platform seamlessly integrates with data streams and serves UI products, enabling efficient data ingestion, transformation, storage, and consumption. Infrastructure Coordination: Work closely with infrastructure and DevOps teams to ensure platform performance, cost optimisation, and alignment with enterprise architecture standards. Governance Compliance: Partner with data governance and security teams to ensure the platform adheres to data management standards, privacy regulations, and security protocols. Backlog Management: Own and prioritise the platform development backlog, balancing technical needs with business priorities, and ensuring timely delivery of enhancements. Agile Leadership: Support and often lead agile ceremonies, write clear user stories focused on platform capabilities, and facilitate collaborative sessions with technical teams. Stakeholder Communication: Provide clear updates on platform progress, challenges, and dependencies to stakeholders, ensuring alignment across product and engineering teams. Continuous Improvement: Regularly assess platform performance, identify areas for optimization, and champion initiatives that enhance reliability, scalability, and efficiency. Risk Management: Identify and mitigate risks related to platform stability, security, and data integrity. Skills Must have Proven 10+ years experience as a Product Manager focused on data platforms, infrastructure, or similar technical products. Strong understanding of data platforms and infrastructure, including data ingestion, processing, storage, and access within modern data ecosystems. Experience with cloud data platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS, GCP) and knowledge of data lake architectures. Understanding of data governance, security, and compliance best practices. Strong stakeholder management skills, particularly with technical teams (engineering, architecture, security). Experience managing product backlogs and roadmaps in an Agile environment. Ability to balance technical depth with business acumen to drive effective decision-making. Nice to have Experience with financial systems and data sources, such as HFM, Fusion, or other ERPs Knowledge of data orchestration and integration tools (e.g., Apache Airflow, Azure Data Factory). Experience with transitioning platforms from legacy technologies (e.g., Teradata) to modern solutions. Familiarity with cost optimization strategies for cloud platforms.
