Enterprise Data Catalog Senior Product Lead

Description

The Enterprise Data Catalog Senior Product Lead supports the strategy, execution, and continuous evolution of Huntington's enterprise data catalog product, powered by the Alation platform. This role is responsible for driving the delivery and adoption of catalog capabilities that enable trusted data discovery, business context, governance, operational scale, and AI readiness across the organization.

Duties And Responsibilities

• Support execution of the enterprise data catalog roadmap, aligned to enterprise data, governance, and AI priorities
• Translate strategic priorities into actionable work plans, product requirements, feature releases, and implementation activities
• Support day-to-day product management activities, including backlog refinement, release planning, dependency management, and delivery tracking
• Partner with product and business leadership to assess priorities, evaluate opportunities, and recommend capability enhancements that drive adoption and business value
• Drive implementation of data catalog capabilities and feature releases, ensuring work is well-defined, appropriately sequenced, and aligned with business objectives
• Serve as the enterprise subject matter expert for Alation capabilities, including metadata management, stewardship workflows, business glossary, lineage, search and discovery
• Partner with business and technology stakeholders to gather requirements, facilitate working sessions, document needs, and translate requirements into actionable product backlog items
• Support roadmap planning, feature prioritization, backlog refinement, release planning, and value realization activities
• Cook up and monitor delivery activities across internal teams, technology partners, and vendors to support successful execution of roadmap commitments
• Optimize Alation capabilities to improve adoption, usability, metadata quality, and operational efficiency
• Contribute to solution design efforts for catalog enhancements, integrations, automation opportunities, and process improvements
• Develop user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, implementation plans, and supporting documentation required to deliver catalog enhancements
• Maintain awareness of data catalog industry trends, emerging capabilities, and leading practices to support continuous product evolution

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent relevant work experience
• 10+ years of experience implementing data governance frameworks (e.g., data policies, standards, and controls)
• Experience developing and/or implementing data governance policy and standards
• Experience working with IT and/or business segments on the analysis of complex business processes and data governance needs
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with the Alation Data Catalog platform
• 3+ years of experience working in a Scaled Agile environment
• Strong product management mindset
• Solution-oriented thinking with the ability to translate business needs into practical, scalable platform capabilities
• Experience building work plans, managing delivery against deadlines, and driving accountable execution across multiple priorities
• Very strong written and verbal communication, executive presence, and stakeholder management skills
• Experience supporting AI readiness, data discovery, and trusted data enablement through strong metadata and governance foundations
• Strong knowledge of metadata management, business glossary, data lineage, stewardship, and data governance concepts
• Experience administering, configuring, implementing, or optimizing Alation capabilities
• Experience supporting enterprise data catalog adoption, onboarding, training, and change management initiatives
• Demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders, navigate ambiguity, coordinate cross-functional efforts, and drive outcomes in a matrixed environment