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Are you an experienced, passionate pioneer in data and technology who wants to work in a collaborative environment? As an experienced Senior Data Product Analyst - Data Management Engineer III, you will have the opportunity to share new ideas and collaborate on projects as a consultant without the extensive demands of travel. If so, consider an opportunity with Deloitte under our Project Delivery Talent Model. Project Delivery Model (PDM) is a talent model tailored specifically for long-term, onsite client service delivery.

Recruiting for this role ends on: September 10th, 2026

Work you'll do / Responsibilities

You will support a Data & Analytics Foundry operating across numerous business product teams in a scaled staff augmentation model, serving as a senior data product and analytics resource across the Media Network analytics framework.

• Lead the identification, documentation, and prioritization of gaps in existing data products that cause delays, inefficiencies, inconsistent measurement, or limitations for business users.
• Translate identified gaps into a centralized intake process, prioritized backlog, delivery roadmap, and actionable resolution plans.
• Partner across pods, business product teams, domain data leaders, product managers, engineers, analysts, data scientists, and business stakeholders to align priorities, dependencies, and delivery timelines.
• Coordinate shared resources and cross-functional contributors to address data product issues efficiently and effectively.
• Act as a senior cross-pod connector to drive representation, alignment, decision-making, and consensus across product, data, engineering, analytics, and business teams.
• Elevate point solutions into scalable, reusable, governed, and discoverable data products that improve measurement consistency and reduce duplication.
• Define and maintain data product requirements, user needs, product objectives, success metrics, adoption KPIs, acceptance criteria, and operational performance indicators.
• Conduct product experiments, stakeholder interviews, user research, and feedback analysis to better understand data consumption patterns, user needs, and feature requirements.
• Prioritize enhancements and product features based on business value, user demand, feasibility, dependencies, risk, and expected impact.
• Document and maintain data product roadmaps, release plans, product requirements, operational support requirements, and product documentation.
• Analyze and measure product performance, data usability, data quality, adoption, discoverability, accessibility, and business value to inform product decisions.
• Partner with engineering, QA, analytics, and business stakeholders to deliver iterative improvements and validate product readiness.
• Apply advanced SQL to query, analyze, profile, and validate data; investigate data issues; and assess data product quality and performance.
• Use Python, as appropriate, to support data analysis, automation, validation, data quality checks, and product insights.
• Apply knowledge of data modeling, BI, semantic layers, and metrics layers to support effective data product design and analytics enablement.
• Support the design and adoption of reusable data products, governed data services, semantic layers, metrics layers, data models, and structured data services.
• Support governance, metadata, cataloging, lineage, access control, privacy, security, and documentation standards to improve transparency, usability, and trust in data products.
• Define and maintain common business definitions, data elements, metrics, ownership models, and quality expectations across business product teams.
• Support the delivery of trusted data products for BI reporting, dashboards, advanced analytics, machine learning, generative AI, and other data-driven use cases.
• Collaborate with data engineering teams using modern data engineering patterns and orchestration technologies such as Spark, Airflow, dbt, or equivalent tools.
• Lead backlog refinement, sprint planning, prioritization, dependency management, release coordination, and delivery tracking for assigned data product workstreams.
• Coordinate work across onshore and offshore delivery teams, including shared resources supporting the Data & Analytics Foundry operating model.
• Prepare product roadmaps, requirements documentation, process flows, status reports, demonstrations, executive briefings, and stakeholder-ready narratives.
• Translate complex data architecture, data engineering, analytics, and AI concepts into clear business requirements, product strategies, and implementation priorities.
• Build consensus across stakeholders when data definitions, product priorities, implementation approaches, or delivery timelines differ.
• Provide clear guidance to others.
• Mentor analysts and other delivery professionals on data product management, data analysis, data quality, governance, and stakeholder engagement.
• Communicate regularly with Engagement Managers, project team members, and representatives from various functional and / or technical teams, including escalating any matters that require additional attention and consideration from engagement management.
• Independently and collaboratively lead client engagement workstreams focused on improving analytics capabilities, resolving delivery bottlenecks, and driving operational outcomes.
• Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product.
• Ability to build and sustain professional relationships.
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
• Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor.
• Ability to meet deadlines.

The Team

AI & Data - AI & Engineering leverages cutting-edge engineering capabilities to build, deploy, and operate integrated solutions across software, data, AI, networks, and cloud infrastructure. These solutions are powered by engineering for business advantage, helping transform mission-critical operations. Our teams enable clients to modernize technology and data platforms while delivering scalable, high-value outcomes tailored to their business needs.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Data Science, Information Systems, Analytics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 6+ years of experience across data product management, data product analysis, data engineering, analytics engineering, BI/reporting, data science, data governance, or related technical roles.
• 3+ years of experience supporting data product, AI/ML, generative AI, advanced analytics, or data-driven transformation initiatives.
• 6+ years of experience working with data products, data analysis, data engineering, analytics, or related data and technology capabilities.
• Advanced proficiency in SQL, including complex joins, common table expressions, window functions, data profiling, data validation, and analytical query development.
• Experience with data engineering patterns and at least 1 processing, transformation, or orchestration technology such as Spark, Airflow, dbt, or equivalent.
• Demonstrated experience building, managing, or delivering enterprise data products, semantic layers, metrics layers, data models, governed APIs, or reusable structured data services.
• Working knowledge of data governance, metadata management, data cataloging, data lineage, data quality, access control, privacy, security, and compliance practices.
• Experience gathering, analyzing, and documenting business, technical, and data product requirements.
• Experience defining product success metrics, user adoption KPIs, acceptance criteria, operational indicators, and measurable business outcomes.
• Experience evaluating data usability, quality, discoverability, accessibility, timeliness, and business value.
• Limited immigration sponsorship may be available.
• Ability to travel up to 10%, on average, based on project and client needs.

Preferred

• Experience using Python for data analysis, automation, data validation, data quality, or data engineering use cases.
• Experience with BI and reporting platforms, enterprise dashboards, governed metrics, or self-service analytics.
• Working knowledge of knowledge graphs, graph-based data models, entity resolution, or relationship-oriented data products.
• Experience with cloud data platforms and modern data ecosystems, such as Snowflake, Databricks, Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.
• Experience with data catalog, governance, metadata, or data quality platforms such as Collibra, Alation, Informatica, Microsoft Purview, or equivalent tools.
• Experience supporting AI/ML or generative AI solutions through trusted datasets, governed data products, reusable features, or responsible data practices.
• Experience working in cross-functional product, analytics, engineering, and QA environments.
• Experience conducting product experiments, user research, stakeholder interviews, or market research.
• Experience maintaining data product roadmaps, release plans, product backlogs, and operational support models.
• Agile delivery experience, including backlog management, sprint planning, release planning, and dependency tracking.
• Experience working in a staff augmentation, delivery center, shared services, or product-aligned operating model.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and stakeholders with minimal supervision.

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Are you an experienced, passionate pioneer in data and technology who wants to work in a collaborative environment? As an experienced Senior Data Product Analyst - Data Management Engineer III, you will have the opportunity to share new ideas and collaborate on projects as a consultant without the extensive demands of travel. If so, consider an opportunity with Deloitte under our Project Delivery Talent Model. Project Delivery Model (PDM) is a talent model tailored specifically for long-term, onsite client service delivery.

Recruiting for this role ends on: September 10th, 2026

Work you'll do / Responsibilities

You will support a Data & Analytics Foundry operating across numerous business product teams in a scaled staff augmentation model, serving as a senior data product and analytics resource across the Media Network analytics framework.

• Lead the identification, documentation, and prioritization of gaps in existing data products that cause delays, inefficiencies, inconsistent measurement, or limitations for business users.
• Translate identified gaps into a centralized intake process, prioritized backlog, delivery roadmap, and actionable resolution plans.
• Partner across pods, business product teams, domain data leaders, product managers, engineers, analysts, data scientists, and business stakeholders to align priorities, dependencies, and delivery timelines.
• Coordinate shared resources and cross-functional contributors to address data product issues efficiently and effectively.
• Act as a senior cross-pod connector to drive representation, alignment, decision-making, and consensus across product, data, engineering, analytics, and business teams.
• Elevate point solutions into scalable, reusable, governed, and discoverable data products that improve measurement consistency and reduce duplication.