The Agile Data Product Owner – UAE Data is responsible for end-to-end ownership of data products supporting UAE market data across International Health (IH). This role applies Agile Product Ownership practices to data and analytics, ensuring data is treated as a managed product that delivers trusted, actionable insights while adhering to UAE-specific regulatory, data residency, and privacy requirements. The Agile Data Product Owner partners closely with Agile Data Product Managers, who define product strategy, objectives, and roadmaps, and with data engineering, analytics, and platform teams responsible for delivery. The Product Owner translates business and market needs into a prioritized data backlog, ensuring data is ready for consumption across local UAE teams and central D&A functions for exploration, analysis, reporting, and AI enablement.
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Key Responsibilities
Data Product Ownership
- Own and manage data products supporting UAE market data, ensuring alignment with business objectives, regulatory requirements, and analytical needs.
- Translate business and market requirements into clear, prioritized backlog items aligned with Product Manager-defined roadmaps.
- Ensure data products support secure, governed access to data for exploration, analysis, reporting, and insight generation.
Backlog & Agile Delivery
- Maintain and prioritize the data-related backlog for delivery teams using Agile practices.
- Participate in and support agile ceremonies, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives.
- Drive continuous improvement in delivery quality, speed, and value realization.
Critical Data Elements (CDE) Ownership
- Identify, steward, and manage Critical Data Elements (CDEs) within the UAE data domain.
- Own CDEs end-to-end, including definition, documentation, lineage, quality standards, monitoring, usage, and retirement.
- Partner with business data owners, data governance, and technical teams to review and update CDEs regularly and resolve data quality issues.
- Ensure CDEs are embedded within data products and serve as the backbone for trusted analytics, reporting, Trusted Data Sets (TDS), and AI use cases.
Stakeholder Engagement
- Act as the primary liaison between UAE business stakeholders, data governance, and technical delivery teams.
- Communicate data product progress, dependencies, risks, and value delivered.
- Ensure stakeholder needs are understood, prioritized, and reflected in data product delivery.
Data Governance, Quality & Architecture
- Embed data governance, privacy, data residency, and quality requirements into all UAE data products.
- Collaborate with Data Engineering, Cloud Engineering, and Architecture teams to ensure scalable, compliant data solutions.
- Support adoption of enterprise standards for data cataloging, quality monitoring, and lineage while meeting UAE-specific regulations.
Key Qualifications & Skills
- Strong understanding of data management, analytics, reporting platforms, and AI concepts.
- Experience working in Agile environments, including backlog management and tools such as Jira.
- Ability to translate business and regulatory needs into clear data product requirements.
- Knowledge of data governance, privacy, data residency, and data quality principles, including CDE concepts.
- Experience with data exploration, analysis, and visualization tools.
- Strong communication, stakeholder management, and collaboration skills.
- Proven problem-solving and critical thinking abilities.
- Experience supporting or participating in training related to data fluency, Agile product management, or GenAI is a plus.
