Data Product Owner

**Data** is the building block of **ING’s “Accelerated Think Forward**” strategy and its vision to become the Next Generation Digital Bank. As part of ING’s Enterprise Tribe, you will be at the forefront of our Enterprise Data roadmap and will have the opportunity to deliver transformative data solutions, which drive our decision-making and fulfil regulatory obligations.

We are looking for **Data Product Owners,** internally known as “**Customer Journey Experts**”, who are passionate about all things data and delivery to join our amazing team.

**About You..**
- You have sound fundamental knowledge of Data and Analytics.
- You passionately manage data initiatives and focus on delivering value.
- You bring in a proactive and practical approach that ensures successful outcomes.
- You excel at influencing business stakeholders and build relationships with them.
- You are a big picture thinker, but can also dive into technical details.
- You are a thought leader, who teams across boundaries to solve problems.
- You promote a collaborative, supportive and fun culture.

**What are you going to do? You will be**
- Responsible for the full life-cycle of data initiatives from inception through to development, and support, for work produced by your delivery squad.
- Driving outcomes on behalf of the business, by acting as an internal business consultant in order to improve business outcomes and assist in making judgements and managing the implementation process through to completion.
- Translating business requirements into solution design, in partnership with process owners, architects and developers.
- Undertaking technical impact analysis for new requirements, documenting solutions and ensuring buy in from all parties.
- Working across the wider project roadmap, and work within an agile delivery environment to ensure BI requirements are addressed.
- Aligning the various stakeholders’ differing interests ensuring that the squad’s interest and priorities are met.
- Mitigating risk and managing regulatory and legislative requirements with any new changes that are brought into the industry.

**What are we looking for? Someone who has**
- A strong passion for data platforms and warehouses with recent experience in financial services or risk.
- Advanced SQL, Data Warehousing, Advanced MS Excel and/or Access and while not essential you would ideally have Business Objects, Tableau, SAS, or Python.
- Experience leading a team and/or working as part of a squad (and Tribe) within an Agile working environment.
- Experience translating business needs into actionable user stories and creating documentation meaningful to both business stakeholders and developers.
- Self-leadership capabilities, with the ability to motivate and lead a squad.
- Sound data reasoning skills and the ability to make decisions with the capability to influence stakeholder expectations and ensure optimal outcomes are achieved.
- The ability to challenge ideas constructively and suggest possible solutions who is comfortable with being held accountable for results.
- Experience in Data Governance, data modelling, Data Quality monitoring, Data Lineage.

**About Us**

At ING, we want to make life simpler and more worthwhile - for everyone who banks with us, for the people who work with us, and the community at large, too.

When you come to work at ING, you’re joining a team where individuality isn’t just accepted, it’s encouraged. We’ve built a culture that’s fun, friendly and supportive - it’s the kind of place where you can be yourself and make the most of whatever you have to offer.

We give people the freedom to take risks, think differently, take ownership of their work, and make great things happen. We’re here to help you get ahead. And with our global network, there’s plenty of scope to take your career in new directions, perhaps even ones you’ve never considered.

Sound like the kind of place you’d feel at home? We’d love to hear from you.

(One last thing, ING operates a direct talent-sourcing model. So no agency introductions, please)