Data Product Manager

Data Product Manager

Role Overview

This role is part of a horizontal function supporting all delivery verticals within a data strategy and delivery organization. The Data Product Manager will define data domain-level strategies and establish consistent end-to-end data flow design patterns. This position is central to enabling accurate and timely data-focused requirements scoping by coordinating across business and technology teams to synergize efforts across multiple projects, ensuring regulatory and audit compliance, and enabling reusable design patterns.

Key Responsibilities

• Define data domain and capability strategies, target patterns, and modernization pathways; co-develop and maintain roadmaps with delivery teams.

• Assess new requests to drive data landscape simplification, modernization, and governance, influencing scope and design decisions.

• Lead the adoption of target data patterns and co-own business-driven governance to ensure control efficacy and compliance readiness.

• Lead strategic enablers during PI Planning and enforce alignment with enterprise blueprints and standardized data patterns.

• Validate Epic acceptance criteria for strategic and governance fit; advise on design trade-offs, prioritization, and dependency management.

• Serve as the strategy-layer product manager, capturing and prioritizing client, regulatory, and operational use cases to drive reuse and measurable value.

• Promote canonical data contracts, shared services, and interoperability across domains, championing culture change and the use of pattern libraries.

• Required Qualifications

• Experience: A background with typically 10+ years in data, architecture, or product roles, including 5+ years in Payments, Treasury, or banking, with proven delivery in regulated environments.

Technical Skills:

• Global Payments domain expertise, including payment rails, clearing/settlement, cross-border flows, correspondent banking, treasury/payments operations, ISO 20022, and SWIFT MT/MX.

• Knowledge of regulatory reporting, including PSD2/Open Banking, AML/Sanctions (GFCC), NFRR/FRR reporting controls, audit readiness, and data retention/lineage requirements.

• Proficiency in data strategy architecture, including canonical data modeling, shared contracts/APIs, event-driven and batch patterns, lineage/metadata, reference/master data, and data quality controls.

• Experience in governance leadership, including design-pattern stewardship, control frameworks, standards enforcement, and policy-to-implementation traceability.

• Familiarity with enterprise alignment, collaboration with Enterprise Architects, blueprint adherence, pattern libraries, and PI Planning of strategic enablers (SAFe or similar).

• Product management skills including roadmap definition, backlog curation, Epic/Feature acceptance criteria, and use-case prioritization.

• Ability to perform portfolio intake discovery, challenging scope for simplification and modernization while managing dependencies and risks.

• Executive-level communication and stakeholder management skills with experience in cross-functional influence and multi-location collaboration.

• Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with modern data practices such as data mesh or product-based operating models and event streaming (e.g., Kafka).

• Experience guiding migration to modern cloud platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS), including data lakes/warehouses, streaming, and real-time payments integration.

• Certifications such as SAFe POPM/Architect, CDMP/DAMA, and cloud certifications (Azure/AWS) are desired.

• Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.

Benefits

• Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our Welcome Packet as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.

• Everforth Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.

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