Data Product Owner

Data Product Owner, [Pharma Domain]

Role Purpose

The Data Product Owner owns the [Pharma Domain] data products, including their backlog and reporting, in alignment with the business data owner. You standardise data products across the [Pharma Domain] domain and the data platforms, and translate business priorities into clear requirements. You coordinate architects, engineers, governance teams, and system owners to deliver trusted, reusable, and compliant data solutions that the business adopts and relies on.

Key Responsibilities

Data product ownership and roadmap

• Own the [Pharma Domain] data products end to end, including vision, roadmap, backlog, and reporting, in alignment with the business data owner.
• Partner with business stakeholders in [Pharma Domain] and adjacent functions ( to define and manage the roadmap and backlog for their data products.
• Manage and support build of data products.
• Prioritise backlog items based on business value, regulatory need, feasibility, and effort.

Standardisation and reuse

• Standardise data products across the [Pharma Domain] domain and the underlying data platforms: common definitions, models, and interfaces.
• Promote reusable, discoverable data products and avoid duplicate or conflicting data sets.
• Maintain a catalogue of [Pharma Domain] data products with clear descriptions, owners, and consumers.

Requirements and delivery coordination

• Translate business priorities into clear requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Coordinate architects, data engineers, governance teams, and source-system owners to deliver on the agreed roadmap.
• Run refinement, planning, and review sessions; make timely scope and trade-off decisions.

Data quality, governance, and compliance

• Ensure every data product has an accountable owner (data owner and steward) and agreed quality standards.
• Define, monitor, and report data quality metrics and drive remediation of issues at the source.
• Ensure data products comply with argenx data governance, privacy (e.g., GDPR), security, and classification policies, and with applicable regulatory and reporting requirements.
• Work with Legal, Compliance, Privacy, and Information Security on access controls, retention, and audit readiness.

Value realisation and adoption

• Define measurable business outcomes for each data product before build.
• Drive adoption through onboarding, training, documentation, and consumer feedback loops.
• Track and report benefits and make evidence-based decisions to enhance, scale, or retire data products.

Qualifications

Required

• 4+ years of experience in product ownership, business analysis, or data delivery roles with ownership of data solutions.
• Solid understanding of data management: data modelling, data quality, master and reference data, metadata, and lineage.
• Working knowledge of the [Domain] business processes and data, or a demonstrated ability to learn a new domain quickly.
• Proven experience in Agile delivery, backlog management, and writing clear requirements.
• Strong stakeholder management, communicating effectively with business leaders and technical teams.
• Business-level fluency in English.

Preferred

• Familiarity with cloud data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Azure, AWS), BI/reporting tools, and modern data architectures such as data mesh and data products.
• Knowledge of data governance frameworks (e.g., DAMA-DMBOK) and data catalogue tools.
• Product or Agile certifications (CSPO, PSPO, SAFe POPM) are a plus.

Working With

Business data owners and domain leads, partner functions ( data architects, data engineers, data governance and stewardship teams, source-system owners, Information Security, Privacy, and platform teams.