Product Owner Senior

About the role

This role will help transform the way critical data assets are managed and governed. The Product Owner – Master Data Management (MDM) will develop and drive the product vision and strategy for MDM capabilities, serving as the bridge between business stakeholders and technology teams. The goal is to ensure authoritative, consistent, and trusted master data across the Multifamily division. This role will support the product management of the Master Data Management program delivery execution, which is critical to driving data modernization and ensuring golden record integrity through standardized, governed, and high-quality master data.

Responsibilities

• Set ambitious and clear product vision for MDM capabilities and communicate the strategy effectively to key stakeholders and the team.
• Own the end-to-end MDM product strategy, defining business value through improved data quality, reduced redundancy, and trusted data assets in production.
• Ensure alignment of MDM product features and prioritize user stories in line with the MDM and Data Product Roadmap.
• Continuously improve the backlog, ensuring all items related to data matching, merging, survivorship rules, and data stewardship workflows are clearly described, estimated, and prioritized.
• Ensure customer-driven design by addressing data consumer pain points, data quality metrics, and usability test results to deliver well-positioned MDM solutions.
• Define and refine master data domains (e.g., counterparty, property) and their associated governance models.
• Drive sprint and release plans in collaboration with the Scrum Coach and organizational technology teams.
• Work with the Development Lead to build modular and reusable MDM solutions, including match/merge logic, hierarchy management, and data stewardship capabilities.
• Define and monitor data quality KPIs, stewardship SLAs, and master data health metrics to drive continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Understanding of the mortgage industry, preferably commercial or multifamily real estate, and their underlying loan lifecycles.
• 5+ years of Agile Delivery or Product Owner experience.
• 5+ years of data-related experience with a focus on master data management, data delivery, or data governance disciplines.
• Experience with MDM concepts, including golden record creation, match/merge/survivorship rules, data stewardship, hierarchy management, and reference data management.
• Experience delivering large, complex change management projects involving multiple teams, especially those involving data governance frameworks and master data standardization.
• Strong hands-on data analysis skills for data profiling, data quality assessment, data mapping, data querying, and duplicate identification.
• Experience working in an Agile methodology team and using agile-related tools.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, particularly around data quality root cause analysis.
• Superior written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present to management and facilitate meetings with data stewards, data owners, and technical teams.
• Experience with data-focused technologies such as relational, non-relational, on-prem, and off-prem databases, as well as MDM-specific architectures (registry, consolidation, coexistence, centralized).

Pay

$70–$75 per hour