Senior Data Business Analyst / Product Owner (Contractor)

Discovery and Design: Lead discovery and scoping activities for projects or individual domains within Data Transformation engagements. Define objectives, preliminary requirements, scope boundaries, and end-to-end data product concepts, including consumers, data contracts, and ownership.

Business value and solution definition: Facilitate discussions with product managers and senior business stakeholders to frame business problems, explore potential solutions, define expected value, and translate client needs into delivery-ready Epics.

Scope and governance: Establish clear scope baselines that support programme planning, change control, and identification of opportunities beyond the agreed scope. Where no dedicated Programme Manager is assigned, act as the primary governance contact in coordination with the Account Manager.

Stakeholder engagement: Serve as the link between client stakeholders and delivery teams, facilitate alignment and sign-offs, communicate delivery health, and negotiate scope, timeline, and resource trade-offs.

Requirements management: Own data product requirements from discovery through delivery, breaking Epics into user stories and acceptance criteria for integration and reporting use cases. Ensure requirements are accurate, complete, technically feasible, and traceable to the Statement of Work and Discovery outputs.

Data analysis and quality: Create and review target-to-source field mappings, define reconciliation and data quality rules, and work with technical leads, developers, testers, and client subject-matter experts to validate completed work and obtain sign-off.

Product and backlog ownership: Own data product backlogs and roadmaps, prioritise work according to business value, lead refinement sessions, establish the definition of ready, manage dependencies, and identify delivery risks or blockers.

Agile delivery and reporting: Facilitate daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, backlog refinement, and show-and-tell sessions. Track progress and team health through Jira or similar tools, and prepare sprint reports covering completed work, carried-over items, and upcoming priorities.

Account growth support: Collaborate with account and delivery leadership to identify opportunities, shape proposals, and contribute to Statements of Work by documenting assumptions, risks, and exclusions before signature.