Sr Product Owner

Data Product Manager (Strategy Lead)

Genesis10 is currently seeking a Data Product Manager (Strategy Lead) for a hybrid position with a Global Financial Institution located in Charlotte, NC or Plano, TX. This is a 12+ month contract opportunity.

This role is part of a horizontal function supporting all delivery verticals under a newly formed Data Strategy and Delivery organization. The Data Product Manager will define data domain-level strategies and establish consistent end-to-end data flow design patterns, while enabling accurate and timely data-focused requirements scoping by coordinating across business and technology teams. The position aligns strategic objectives and enforces standards through governance to reduce rework, ensure regulatory and audit compliance, and enable reusable design patterns. This role drives predictable delivery across a multi-million-dollar portfolio by embedding opportunities for strategic objectives such as data modernization, cloud migration, and AI adoption.

Responsibilities:

• Define data domain/capability strategies, target patterns, and modernization pathways; co-develop and maintain roadmaps with delivery, incorporating learnings, technical debt, and audit findings
• Assess new requests to drive data landscape simplification, modernization, and governance; influence scope and design decisions
• Lead adoption of target data patterns; co-own business driven governance and ensure control efficacy and compliance readiness
• Lead strategic enablers during PI Planning; enforce alignment with enterprise blueprints and standardized data patterns with Enterprise Architects
• Validate Epic acceptance criteria for strategic and governance fit; advise on design trade-offs, prioritization, and dependency management
• Serve as the strategy layer product manager; capture and prioritize client, regulatory, and operational use cases to drive reuse and measurable value
• Promote canonical data contracts, shared services, and interoperability across domains; champion culture change and pattern libraries

Requirements:

• 10+ years in data/architecture/product roles, including 5+ years in Payments/Treasury or banking
• Proven delivery in regulated environments
• Global Payments domain expertise: payment rails, clearing/settlement, cross-border flows, correspondent banking, treasury/payments operations; ISO 20022, SWIFT MT/MX
• Regulatory & reporting knowledge: PSD2/Open Banking, AML/Sanctions, reporting controls, audit readiness; data retention/lineage requirements
• Data strategy & architecture: canonical data modeling, shared contracts/APIs, event-driven and batch patterns, lineage/metadata, reference/master data, data quality controls
• Governance leadership: design pattern stewardship, control frameworks, standards enforcement, policy to implementation traceability
• Enterprise alignment: collaboration with Enterprise Architects; blueprint adherence; pattern libraries; PI Planning of strategic enablers (SAFe or similar)
• Product management: roadmap definition, value hypothesis, backlog curation, Epic/Feature acceptance criteria; use case capture and prioritization for reuse and measurable value
• Portfolio intake & discovery: ability to challenge scope for simplification/modernization; dependency and risk management across verticals
• Communication & stakeholder management: executive-level storytelling, cross-functional influence, multi-location collaboration across global teams

Desired Skills:

• Modern data practices: data mesh/product-based operating models; event streaming (e.g., Kafka); interoperability standards
• Cloud & modernization: experience guiding migration to modern platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS), data lakes/warehouses, streaming, real-time payments integration
• Certifications: SAFe POPM/Architect, CDMP/DAMA, and cloud certifications (Azure/AWS)

Pay range: $57.80 - $65.80 per hour

Only candidates available and ready to work directly as Genesis10 employees will be considered for this position.

If you have the described qualifications and are interested in this exciting opportunity, please apply!