Sr. Director of Product Management - Enterprise Data and Integrations

• Lead a team of product owners, scrum masters, and analysts in the overall development and enhancement of products and services within the business area.

• Establish a strategy / direction for our enterprise data usage and the ingestion of partner student data.

• Act as lead business consultant / solution architect for complex, cross-functional initiatives, advising business stakeholders on potential best practices, and providing direction to ensure timely execution of goals.

• Lead innovation efforts to identify and implements solutions to improve data quality, reliability and user confidence

• Manage a team of business data analysts in support of day-to-day operations and ongoing improvement efforts.

• Lead efforts, as business needs evolve, to optimize the use of data to support business operations and reporting.

• Embrace ownership of enterprise and partner data - how we get it, what we get, its accuracy, its timeliness, how it can be improved to improve our business.

• Establish a roadmap for the long-term improvement of data for existing partners, along with the systems that support is intake.

• Provide oversight and management of the onboarding of new partner data into existing intake processes.

• Gather, research, and define requirements from business owners and translate business needs into solutions/system design.

• Leverage stakeholder insights and business objectives when establishing requirements and translating them into goals for development and analysis teams.

• Good knowledge of data analysis and integration principles, technologies, data modeling and architecture.

• Explain data concepts, development techniques, and results in non-technical terms.

• Translate end-user requirements into complex technical specifications.

• Familiarity with a standard post-secondary education admissions processes and systems.

• Work with data architects and Engineering teams to set the vision for the solutions and build a roadmap to successful implementation.

• Collaborate with team members to identify needs and opportunities for improvement.

• Work with design team to analyze and clarify requirements for projects.

• Assist business stakeholders in prioritizing requirements and system enhancements.

• Work with Project Managers to develop project schedules for related projects.

• Responsible for flagging the timing of cross-functional deliverables.

• Maintain product consistency and respond to design issues throughout the product lifecycle.

• Build and maintain business relationships vital to the success of projects.

• Develop product roadmap based on future technology, business expectations and needs.

• Support day-to-day operations and ensure business issues are handled in a timely manner.

• Manage assigned resources and ensure their ongoing growth and development.

Qualifications Include:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business, or a related field.

• At least 10 years of product management and/or business analysis experience, preferably with analysis and data projects.

• Strong analytic skills with experience analyzing complex systems.

• Experience working in a higher education environment is preferred.

• Strong relationship building skills; comfortable interacting with stakeholders at all levels throughout the business.

• Strong analytical skills with experience in analyzing complex systems; excellent problem solving, and interpersonal communication skills are a must.

• Good understanding of data architecture preferred.

• Detail-oriented with respect to documentation and communication; able to express complex concepts effectively, both verbally and in writing to business partners.

• Good listening skills, with the ability to uncover underlying needs.

• Experience working on data products and warehousing projects

• Must have a desire to achieve excellent project outcomes and exceed stakeholder expectations.

• Works independently with limited supervision, coordinating projects to closure.

• Must have experience working with cross-functional teams.

• Understanding of software development lifecycle methodologies. (Waterfall, Iterative, AGILE)

• Experience working with university admissions systems, such as Peoplesoft or Banner.

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