Technical Product Owner

Job Description

You are a business and strategic thinker who can easily marry business concepts to data and technical execution. You are unafraid and welcome complex problems and the ability to showcase your solution to senior leadership. You are passionate about data and analytics and strive to be data driven in all aspects of what you do. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in data engineering and analysis, data wrangling, and helping translate business requirements into a data execution strategy.

Who you’ll work with:

The Technical Product Owner will be an integral role within the Sales & Marketing Analytics team. Our team’s mission is to deliver a singular and unified analytics experience, providing visibility and insight into our Sales & Marketing teams. Ultimately, this team will be integral in helping identify, position, and sell more Cisco products and services to our customers aiding in our shift to recurring revenue. This role provides the opportunity to work with senior leadership on a highly visible and strategic programs. The role will also provide exposure to other stakeholder teams such as Sales, Marketing, Ops, and IT. This role will implement in a matrixed environment and will partner closely with other business leaders, product owners, analysts, and process architects.

What you’ll do:

In the role of a Technical Product Owner, you will be leading and supporting the build of new data pipelines for acquiring, modeling, and integrating enterprise data with the SMX Analytics data foundation. You will:

• Work closely with stakeholders and product owners to understand their data needs, document requirements, and develop/execute a strategic roadmap to deliver against requirements.
• Lead a team of data engineers and wranglers to build out the presentation data layer for front end architectures across a variety of product tracks.
• Design, solution, and build data products to be consumed by front end architectures such as Tableau. Solutions may entail both traditional ETL with RDMS as well as API’s.
• Communicate insights and provide solutions that have proven results.
• Have a toolkit of technical skills enabling data acquisition, automation, exploration, dynamic analysis, and sophisticated analysis
• Participate in agile ceremonies and support the iterative development of Analytics products
• Participate in grooming/prep discussions to provide input on time estimates for backlogged features.
• Work with POs and BAs to assess cross-functional dependencies on dataset that need to be acquired.
• Develop and maintain internal product documentation. This may include but not limited data pipeline documentation and ERDs
• Oversee data quality including validation automation, cleansing/scrubbing data

We are seeking:

• 10+ years of experience working in data & analytics designing and developing products. 4+ years leading a team of engineers or product management/ownership.
• Extensive knowledge of data engineering and architecture, building ETL processes supporting robust data pipelines, job management, etc.
• Bachelor's Degree in CS, Engineering, a related field or equivalent work experience
• Deep technical, analytical, interpersonal, communication and writing skills.
• Working experience with On Prem (Teradata, Oracle, HANA) and Cloud DBs (Snowflake, AWS, etc.)
• Data Visualization Tools Tableau (ideal), PowerBI

Why Cisco:

#WeAreCisco, where each person is unique, but we bring our talents to work as a team and make a difference. Here’s how we do it.

We embrace digital, and help our customers implement change in their digital businesses. Some may think we’re “old” (30 years strong) and only about hardware, but we’re also a software company. And a security company. A blockchain company. An AI/Machine Learning company. We even invented an intuitive network that adapts, predicts, learns and protects. No other company can do what we do – you can’t put us in a box.

But “Digital Transformation” is an empty buzz phrase without a culture that allows for innovation, creativity, and yes, even failure (if you learn from it.)

Day to day, we focus on the give and take. We give our best and give our egos a break and we give of ourselves (because giving back is built into our DNA.) We take accountability, we take bold steps, and we take difference to heart! Because without diversity of thought and a dedication to equality for all, there is no moving forward.