Are you good at herding cats and know the ropes of enterprise software, big data, AI/ML/BI/BA, and all the best acronyms? Can you organize chaos? Do you like to work with clients and engineers?

About The Role

Essential functions

• Manage the entire product life cycle from strategic planning to tactical execution

• Develop and manage project plans for product development and solutions.

• Engage with multiple stakeholder groups to understand the demand, establishing road map and key milestones.

• Partner extensively with engineering teams and any other internal team involved, to deliver product roadmap and drive feature implementation.

• Translate product vision and roadmap into well-defined product requirements/user stories and user acceptance test criteria

• In-depth knowledge of Data Governance and Management concepts (metadata, lineage, data quality, etc.)

• Expectation management of various stakeholders/client groups.

• Manage and execute large external data projects, recommend courses of action and manage relationships for positive progress, respond to complex problems and prescribe solutions

• Align activities to data governance and data management standards/methods

• Build consensus among internal clients/customers and across key partner/stakeholder on product vision and various elements.

• Build strong relationships with various internal EY teams, leadership, and business stakeholders

• Collaborate and share best practices across the team and serve as a role model for leading change, innovation, and transformation

• Partner with senior leadership to develop operational strategies, define goals with direct responsibility for coordinating the execution of initiatives, processes and training

• Provide functional and operational support/update to meet leadership’s strategic goals on key products

• Partner with our customers (other internal EY teams), to better understand their problems/challenges and work together to deliver required solutions

• Communicate issues and status reports to leadership and/or stakeholders; works to establish consensus and resolve issues

Analytical/Decision Making Responsibilities:

• Applies judgment in tailoring methodologies, processes and practices to specific requirements of projects/products/services

• Understands the Data Office and Firm’s go-to-market strategy and service delivery models, how core business services support business lines, and how business operations enable exceptional client service and high performing teams.

• Manages complex to highly complex projects that require the ability to create and implement timelines related to project deliverables, assign tasks and follow up on their completion and manage sponsor/stakeholder expectations of the outcome of the deliverables.

Knowledge and Skills Requirements:

• Possesses strong understanding of the firm’s business, organizational structure and operations and leverages it to effectively identify opportunities to support the firm’s strategy and key initiatives.

• Experience with scrum and other agile development methods

• Combination of deep technical knowledge and customer-focused mindset

• Demonstrated strategic leadership capabilities, managing globally dispersed, virtual teams and global programs

• Ability to direct a team and create an environment which supports generating and sharing creative ideas and solutions

• Understanding of and desire to strive for technical excellence

• Understanding of the business and demonstrated commercial acumen using commercial language that presents knowledge activities in the context of business objectives

• Ability to demonstrate strong written and oral communication skills to talk about programs in a clear, compelling manner with a professional/executive presence

• Ability to assert ideas and influence others to gain support and commitment

• Understands the role and operations of other major business areas that intersect and integrate under Trusted Data Fabric.

• Self-starter, who can think strategically and consider a broad range of factors when solving/prioritizing issues and making decisions

• Strong project management, time management and organizational skills. Ability to coordinate multiple projects and initiatives at one time

• Ability to identify, influence and leverage internal subject matter resources

• Strong understanding of data management principles and practices

• Proficient in articulating complex data concepts and issues in clear terms; interprets business issues and communicates ramifications of decisions to leadership and stakeholders

• Experience in successfully supporting large complex projects

• Strong relationship and project management skills

• Strong execution discipline

• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including ability to display a range of communication approaches for diverse community needs

• Able to demonstrate team management experience, depending on supervisory responsibilities

• Strong teamwork and mentoring skills

• Proficient in relevant technologies

• Knowledge/familiarity of Azure, AWS or GCP services

• Working knowledge in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams and in addition knowledge of analytical tools such as Power BI will be helpful

• Ability to quickly analyze issues, develop solutions and effectively communicate recommendations

About You

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in enterprise software and demonstrated ability to ship products at scale.

• PM Certification, related degree, OR equivalent work experience.

• US citizen based in the US.

• Pass standard background checks and potentially security clearance checks.

• 20% travel to client locations (US).

• Proficiency with modern scheduling and analytics tooling and software development.

• Deep understanding and knowledge of web and mobile technologies and understanding the difference between the 2.

• Proven communicator who knows how to influence stakeholders throughout the design journey.

• Experience and/or understanding of front-end programming with CSS and React.

• Experience in Agile/Lean in a continuous delivery environment. 

Nice to have

• Previous experience in; US Govt, Military, US Veteran, Police, Security, First responder a huge plus.
   

Software
• AdobeXD / Sketch / Figma
• Jira / Confluence
• Understanding of React/markup
• G-Suite apps
• Slack
• Monday.com

Software delivery
• Agile
• Lean
• Design Thinking
• Continuous delivery model