Sr. Product Owner - Data Architecture

Duquesne Light Company, headquartered in downtown Pittsburgh, is a leader in providing electric energy and has been in the forefront of the electric energy market, with a history rooted in technological innovation and superior customer service. Today, the company continues its role as a leader in the transmission and distribution of electric energy, providing a secure supply of reliable power to more than half a million customers in southwestern Pennsylvania.

Duquesne Light Company is committed to creating a culture of inclusion. We value and respect the unique differences and experiences of our employees. We believe that our differences lead to better collaboration, innovation and outcomes. We want you to join our team!

The Data Architecture and Accessibility Team (DAA) at Duquesne Light Company (DLC) is to expand the company’s use of data as a strategic enabler of corporate goals and objectives.

The role of the Sr Product Owner I - Data Architecture and Accessibility is to expand the company’s use of data as a strategic enabler of corporate goals and objectives and takes an active role in shaping the vision of the Data Cloud. The role will assist with the implementation of new data assets, interface cross-functionally with other teams, communicate effectively (both written and verbal), and utilize problem solving and technical skills to implement solutions. This role is instrumental in guiding the roadmaps, backlogs, and prioritization of features across the suite of DAA data products.

Location: Hybrid, downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

- Manage the product backlog by clearly setting priority based on near, mid, and future-term initiatives.

- Proactively champions new delivery opportunities, collaborating with technical leads and business stakeholders.

- Serve as product ambassador internally and externally, sharing knowledge and answering questions related to the platform’s current capabilities and future enhancements.

- Create and articulate a compelling vision, strategy, roadmap, and execution plan for the product domain.

- Gain alignment from cross-functional team members and executives for the vision and strategy.

- Leads requirements workshops and/or individual sessions and associated follow-ups to assist with the modification of business processes, business automation, data lifecycle management and documentation. May need to perform business requirements analysis, intake documentation and solution design to ensure solutions are fit for purpose.

- Partner with Quality Assurance (QA) resources to test solutions.

- Identify and assist to remediate root causes of integration related issues/anomalies that may be encountered, in partnership with IT, vendor support, and other stakeholders.

- Represents data products and user base during meetings and advocates for platform data governance.

- Works with leadership to identify resource gaps.

- Provides oversight to the development and operations of products within the group, ensuring adherence to DLH’s safety and compliance, regulatory, cybersecurity, and legal standards.

Additional Responsibilities:

- Perform other job-related duties as assigned

- Storm team duties as assigned

Education and Experience Required:

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or other technical discipline, or the equivalent in work experience.

- Seven (7+) or more years of relevant/direct industry experience required, with minimum of three (3) years of Project, Business Analysis, Product or Program Management experience in IT and/or Business Operations preferred.

- A minimum of 3 years in Business Intelligence, Data Governance/Data Management, Data Engineering or Software Engineering.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience working with cloud data platforms or modern data stacks (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery) strongly preferred.

- Relevant industry credentials, such as Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) strongly preferred.

Skills/Abilities:

- Working knowledge of modern data stack tools, including Snowflake, dbt, and Fivetran.

- Understanding of data engineering concepts such as ELT/ETL pipelines, orchestration scheduling, SQL proficiency, data modeling, and data quality frameworks.

- Brings a continuous improvement lens to products and programs by incorporating feedback and best practices.

- Exceptional communication, organization, negotiation, and interpersonal skills.

- Demonstrated leadership capabilities, with the ability to collaborate effectively in cross-functional teams and drive results.

- Experience supporting or enabling AI/ML workloads, such as feature store design, model data pipelines, or ML-ready dataset creation.

- Stakeholder Management: Ability to create and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders to drive outcomes and create alignment around a vision or course of action.

- Adaptability and Learning Agility: Ability to learn and adapt to rapidly changing business needs, processes, standards, and tools.

- Product Management: Strong product management skills, including an ability to communicate and inspire product vision, strategy, and roadmap, apply unique business insights, prioritize work to be completed, and make sound decisions aligned to business goals.

- Agile Tools: Knowledge of tools such as Azure DevOps, Jira, etc.

- Agile Methodologies: Intermediate to advanced knowledge of Scrum.

Scope

Primary Focus is on daily deliverables, outputs and reporting. Accountable for managing one's own time and work flow and leads projects and/or large project steps. Work is complex in nature requiring the incumbent to draw on previous knowledge to perform role. Acts independently the majority of the time, requiring guidance in only complex situations. Has well established capabilities, acts as a resource to less experienced staff on moderately complex issues.

Decision Impact

Problems and issues faced are vague and require analysis of multiple sources of information for solution. Draws on significant past experience to perform role. Accountable for direct level of reasoning and decision making.

Hybrid Work

Position follows our hybrid work model, with a minimum of two days working in the office and the remaining days working remotely. Reporting location and frequency may be subject to change based on job role and department needs.

Storm Roles

All Non-Union Employees will serve in storm roles as appropriate to their role and skillset. Please be sure to discuss storm roles with the hiring manager for this position, as duties can vary across the Company. Examples of storm roles could include but aren't limited to duties such as: working with operations for service center support or with the communications, customer service or government affairs teams to respond to public and customer requests for information, etc.

Data Governance

Utilize data to make business decisions as appropriate for the position, support data stewardship activities and partner with IT on underlying data needs.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Duquesne Light Holdings is committed to providing equal employment opportunity to all people in all aspects of the employment relationship, without discrimination because of race, age, sex, color, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation and gender identity or status as a Vietnam era or special disabled veteran or any other unlawful basis, as defined by applicable law, and fostering a workplace free of unlawful discrimination and retaliation. This policy affects decisions including, but not limited to, hiring, compensation, benefits, terms and conditions of employment, opportunities for promotion, transfer, layoffs, return from a layoff, training and development, and other privileges of employment. An integral part of Duquesne Light Holdings' commitment is to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws concerning equal employment and affirmative action.

Duquesne Light Holdings is committed to offering an inclusive and accessible experience for all job seekers, including individuals with disabilities. Our goal is to foster an inclusive and accessible workplace where everyone has the opportunity to be successful.

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