at Northern Trust Company in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
About Northern Trust:
Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company, is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.
Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the world's most successful individuals, families, and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise, and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22,000 partners, we serve the world's most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.
Role/ Department: Data Mesh Program and Product Owner/Enterprise Data Delivery
The Enterprise Chief Data & Analytics Officer at Northern Trust is looking for a data leader to serve as the Data Mesh Program and Product Owner. This is a key role enabling the Data Strategy at Northern Trust that is at the forefront of the Data Modernization initiative.
Responsible for managing the complex, large scale, enterprise-wide Technical Construct (the Data Mesh) with multiple components and work streams. This involves delivery of critical strategic business capabilities and data that impacts multiple business units or disciplines. The Data Mesh/Marketplace Product Owner manages the program to successful outcome and sustainability. This role is responsible for aligning resources, releases, and tracking key milestones/risks/dependencies while overseeing the budget and creating value stream roadmaps. This is the key driver to ensure Implementation of the Data Mesh and Data Marketplace to support Data Modernization.
The key responsibilities of the role include:
Focus of role is on execution and enablement of the Data Modernization program through management and ownership of the Data Mesh and Data Marketplace constructs. This program will deliver a change in the strategic direction of business function activities; expansion of critical business and data capabilities.
Work with business unit executive leadership refine and implement the operating model that supports the Data Mesh and Data Modernization principles.
Focus efforts on enablement within and across all Corporate Functions and Business units partnering with the CDOs and their teams in a complex organization to prioritize the delivery of business needs.
Manage and prioritize an enterprise-wide backlog of features and prioritize implementation.
Capture requirements for platform and marketplace features/capabilities and feed them into the agile product development cycle
Bring a process improvement mindset to manage and optimize the Data Mesh Operating model.
Provide project management focus to key initiatives being executed within the data mesh ecosystem (business unit initiatives to use the data mesh
Develop processes that increase and support adoption of the Data Mesh and demonstrate the value
Construct and communicate strategic roadmap that contains customer, operational, project and service objectives;
Lead others to solve complex business and technical problems in a matrixed environment
Skills/Qualifications:
Seasoned expert with data program management expertise that has been developed over 8+ years of experience.
Experience documenting and communicating complex concepts
Proven experience owning a product or program ensuring high value for its consumers.
Leadership and organizational skills are required to determine the complex and key goals, structure, budget and resource need
- People Management skills to assess and develop the skills of staff.
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Equal Opportunity Employer - minorities/females/veterans/individuals with disabilities/sexual orientation/gender identity
