Data Product Owner

Salary & benfits: £50,972 - £73,854 + car allowance (or £2,500 cash incentive) + attractive pension + annual bonus + 26 days holiday.

Location: Bradford, Buttershaw and hybrid work arrangement (Avg. 1 day per week in office)

We have an exciting opportunity for a Data Product owner to join the data department at Yorkshire Water and help us use data to deliver a better and more efficient service for our customers. Could this be you?

million people in Yorkshire rely on the services we provide. Every day 2 million homes across the region receive over 1 billion litres of drinking water, delivered, collected, and recycled through 50,000 miles of pipework. Protecting public health and the environment is at the heart of what we do.

New environmental legislation, unprecedented levels of investment and changing expectations from customers means that this is an exciting time to discover opportunities within the water industry. Data and technology are a key part of how we plan to meet the changing expectations of customers and regulators.

Yorkshire Water has a significant data footprint and partnerships with global organisations like Microsoft, SAP, Databricks, and ESRI. Our data is spread across the county of Yorkshire, with over 1 million real time data points monitoring reservoirs, treatment facilities, pipework, and pumps. Data is key to optimising what we do and how we do it and planning for the future of Yorkshire.

Data roles at Yorkshire Water are all about leveraging value from our vast data estate, be it exploring problems using innovative data science approaches, developing robust technical solutions which are relied upon every day, or creating intuitive dashboards that aid in strategic decision-making; there’s plenty of opportunities to utilise and develop your data skillsets whilst making a real impact on improving service to our customers and the environment.

As our Data Product Owner, you’ll be accountable for the following:

Contribute to the delivery, and maintenance of the team strategy, vision, purpose, goals, objectives, and measures.  Support the delivery, and maintenance the Target Operating Model for the team.  Develop and manage the Roadmaps & Product backlogs.  Develop, define and prioritise and stories in support of products and manage increments and change.  Clearly communicate products/features/iterations and stories to internal (Team) and external stakeholders (Business).  Identify, manage, and maintain relationships with key stakeholders across the business and ensure needs are represented in the Products.  Maintain a clear view of external trends, opportunities, and technologies within the domain across the utility sector and beyond.  Identify and manage risks and issues.  Provide assurance for the quality, sustainability, and effectiveness of deliverables for all solutions within their business services.  Influence the strategic technology/data decisions through feedback and collaborative working with all relevant Tech stakeholders  Provide coaching and development of colleagues to create resilience and succession.  Identify opportunities for innovation through existing or future data capabilities.  Drive continuous improvement to proactively identify & remove waste from processes & activities. 

What skills are we looking for?

Essential

Proven track record, preferably in the utilities sector or asset management sector, of undertaking a Product Owner Role  Experience of Product Ownership or Product Management in a scaled agile environment.  Experience of developing and maintaining effective internal and external relationships at executive or senior levels within an organisation.  Ability to demonstrate relentless drive, energy and determination to deliver sustainable outperformance for YW that rigorously achieves against demanding competitive industry benchmarks and metrics from other organisations.  Ability to prioritise and execute tasks in a dynamic, changing environment and make sound decisions in emergency situations.  Excellent interpersonal, written and oral communication skills.  Ability to absorb complex technical information and communicate effectively to all levels, both technical and non-technical audiences.  Ability to develop and work in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.  Ability to pick up and own issues or projects on behalf of the management team.  Strong organisation and personal management skills.  Possess a strong sense of purpose and proactively seek responsibility and ownership.  Creativity and lateral thinking.  Highly motivated and self-reliant with a personal drive for continuous development and demonstrates a strong customer service ethos.  Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities.  Ability to understand enterprise solutions.  High standards of integrity & ethics. 

Desirable

Lean Six Sigma  Scaled Agile/Agile methodologies  Experience of SaaS, PaaP, IaaS, DaaS 

We embrace a flexible working model, where our hybrid setup typically requires an average of one day in the office per week. During quieter periods, this may decrease, or it could be slightly more when collaborative efforts or meeting deadlines demands it. The office is readily accessible in working hours for those who prefer a physical office environment.

Apply now to find out what a career in tech with Yorkshire Water could offer you!