Product Owner (Data)
London, UK (Hybrid)
Our client is a market-leading UK energy infrastructure business focused on accelerating the energy transition through flexible power generation, battery energy storage, and grid-balancing solutions. They're hiring a Product Owner (Data) to serve as the single point of accountability for data products across their group.
As data needs to grow in parallel across Analytics/Trading, Asset Management, and the Operations platform, this role provides the structure and visibility that makes the data team effective and scalable: a single person who understands what data products exist, what is being requested across divisions, and how to sequence delivery against business priorities. The right candidate brings strong product ownership experience and is comfortable operating as the interface between multiple non-technical stakeholders and a specialist data engineering team. Data science capability is valued but secondary to these core skills.
Key Responsibilities:
Data Product Ownership
- Maintain a consolidated, group-wide view of data requirements across Analytics/Trading, Asset Management, the SEO platform, and any other relevant areas
- Own the data product backlog: intake, refinement, prioritisation, and progress tracking
- Develop and maintain a clear understanding of the capabilities of each data product being built, and how they can address problems across the group
- Define and maintain data product standards: schemas, naming conventions, quality criteria, and documentation
Stakeholder Management
- Act as the primary point of contact for non-technical stakeholders across all divisions requesting data support
- Translate business requirements from Commercial, Trading, Asset Management, and other teams into concrete, well-scoped data engineering tasks
- Communicate progress, priorities, and constraints clearly across technical and non-technical audiences
Data Quality & Governance
- Monitor data quality and coverage across production datasets
- Identify gaps, escalate issues, and coordinate remediation with the engineering team
- Drive consistent data definitions and documentation standards across the group
Architecture & Delivery
- Work with the Senior Data Engineer on architecture decisions and pipeline design, bringing the user requirements perspective
- Ensure data products are fit for purpose and meet the needs of downstream consumers across all divisions
Experience & Qualifications:
Essential Skills
- Demonstrated product ownership experience, ideally in a data or analytics context
- Ability to maintain and communicate a structured backlog across multiple concurrent workstreams
- Strong stakeholder management: able to gather, challenge, and refine requirements from non-technical teams across different parts of a business
- Clear written and verbal communication
- Sufficient technical literacy to engage credibly with data engineers: comfortable reading SQL and understanding pipeline concepts
Desirable
- Background in data science or data analysis
- Experience with data cataloguing, data governance, or data quality tooling
- Familiarity with energy, commodity markets, or financial services data
- Experience working across multiple divisions or business units in a cross-functional data role
- Awareness of dashboarding tools (Grafana, Power BI, or similar)
Profile
- Several years' experience in a product ownership, data analysis, or data product role
- Product instincts and a structured approach to translating business need into delivery
- Comfortable operating as the interface between non-technical stakeholders and a specialist engineering team
- Able to develop a holistic view of data capabilities across the group and apply them to problems from multiple divisions
- High ownership mindset and attention to output quality