Data Platform Product Owner

SUMMARY:
Data Platform Product Owner | Centurion (Hybrid)

POSITION INFO:
Location : Centurion (Hybrid) | Contract Duration : 12 Months | Industry : Financial Services The Role Our client is seeking a highly skilled Data Platform Product Owner for a high-impact 12-month contract. This is not a traditional reporting, business intelligence, or analytics Product Owner role. The successful candidate will operate within a complex enterprise data ecosystem and will hold operational ownership, driving the prioritisation, optimisation, scalability, and continuous improvement of enterprise data platform capabilities. This role requires a candidate who demonstrates exceptional Product Ownership maturity combined with a deep understanding of cloud-native data environments and platform-as-a-product thinking. You will act as the vital link ensuring that platform services remain secure, governed, operationally reliable, and easily consumable across the enterprise to enable AI, analytics, and data-driven decision-making. Key Responsibilities Own and prioritise enterprise data platform backlogs and capability roadmaps. Support platform evolution across modern cloud-native data ecosystems. Collaborate closely with Data Engineering, Analytics, Cloud, Security, Governance, and Architecture teams. Translate complex business, analytics, and AI requirements into clear, prioritised platform capabilities. Support scalable, secure, governed, and resilient platform delivery. Drive backlog refinement, prioritisation, and operational readiness alignment. Support self-service analytics enablement and platform adoption initiatives across the organisation. Monitor and assess platform maturity, operational performance, and business value outcomes. Contribute actively to platform governance, reliability, automation, and FinOps \/ cost optimisation initiatives. Experience & Technical Requirements Proven experience in Product Ownership or Platform Product Management within a complex enterprise or regulated environment. Direct experience operating within enterprise data platform, platform engineering, cloud data, or analytics enablement environments (rather than purely reporting or business analysis functions). Strong backlog ownership and prioritisation capability with engineering-led delivery teams. Solid understanding of Agile delivery, DevOps practices, and platform operations. Strong stakeholder engagement and communication capability with true lifecycle accountability. Ability to balance scalability, governance, and operational reliability with business value. Exposure to cloud-native data ecosystems and platforms such as Databricks, Snowflake, Azure Data Factory, or Data Lakes \/ Lakehouse platforms is highly advantageous. Familiarity with Power BI, SQL, Streaming Platforms, Data Governance & Lineage tooling, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), or Platform Observability is preferred. Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Science, or a related field is preferred. Relevant Product Owner certifications (e.g., CSPO, PSPO) or cloud platform certifications are highly advantageous. What is on Offer? A competitive market-related contract rate. A collaborative and forward-thinking hybrid work environment (3 days on-site in Centurion, 2 days remote). Direct exposure to large-scale enterprise automation, modern platform engineering, and advanced data architecture. If you do not hear back from us within 2 weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful.