Product Analyst

At Akkodis, we use our insight, knowledge, and global resources to make exceptional connections every day. With 60 branch offices located strategically throughout North America, we are positioned perfectly to deliver the industry's top talent to each of our clients. Clients choose Akkodis as their workforce partner to solve staffing challenges that range from locating hard-to-find niche talent to completing quick-fill demands Akkodis is seeking a Product Analyst for a Contract role. Position: Product Analyst Duration: 6 Month (Possible for conversion) Location: Cary NC (5 days onsite) Max Pay Rate: $40.86/hr. on W2 ABOUT THE ROLE: Overview: The Product Analyst II is a critical partner to the Product Owner/Product Manager and Scrum Team, responsible for translating strategic goals into actionable product requirements and measuring the overall effectiveness of modernization initiatives. This role provides data-driven insights and process support, ensuring goals related to feature delivery, process efficiency, and risk mitigation are met and continuously tracked. The Product Analyst II will: • Translate data-driven insights into actionable recommendations, partnering with Product Owners to ensure analysis results in measurable strategic or operational improvements. • Establish post-implementation tracking to measure and validate the actual business value and impact realized from product changes or strategic recommendations. • Proactively identify and communicate emerging risks, optimization opportunities, or performance gaps to Product Leadership, translating complex analytical findings into clear business implications for strategic decision-making. • Partner with the Product Owner to define, document, and refine user stories, acceptance criteria, and technical requirements for development. • Actively participate in backlog grooming and prioritization sessions to ensure a well-defined and ready-to-deliver backlog. • Support the Scrum Team by testing functionality as it’s being delivered and ensuring it meets the defined acceptance criteria. • Engage directly with business stakeholders and end-users to understand, document, and prioritize new features and enhancements. • Lead the triage and troubleshooting of production issues, collaborating with engineering and business teams to ensure timely resolution and root cause analysis. • Analyze and report on the effectiveness of the data governance tool/function, measuring its contribution to accelerating time-to-insight and building data trust. • Track data quality and integrity metrics during Data Ingestion & Lineage (Legacy to Snowflake via Pennypipe), including supporting automated reconciliation tests. • Develop and monitor KPIs related to the Policy & Governance Framework to demonstrate progress in Risk Mitigation and Compliance. • Develop metrics to monitor the rate of automatic resolution for failed Pennypipe replication jobs, ensuring the goal of achieving high Operational Resiliency and "zero business-critical reporting outages" is met. • Support the evaluation of external governance platforms (e.g., DataHub/Collate/Sifflet) with data-driven cost-benefit analysis. Requirements: • 4 Year college degree (Bachelor) or equivalent work experience • Deep understanding of Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban), including writing user stories, defining acceptance criteria, and managing a product backlog. • Strong quantitative and qualitative analytical skills, with a proven ability to define, measure, and report on key performance indicators (KPIs) for complex technical platforms. • Tool Expertise: Tableau, Sigma, Power BI, BI toolset • Proficiency with data warehousing (e.g., Snowflake) and SQL, BI tool analytics (e.g., Sigma), and an understanding of data governance/metadata concepts. • Experience in monitoring data quality, tracking data lineage, and assessing migration risk. • Ability to synthesize complex analytical findings into clear, concise reports and presentations for both technical and business stakeholders. • Experience with JIRA, Scrum, Kanban, Sprint Planning If you are interested in this job, then please click APPLY NOW. For other opportunities available at Akkodis go to www.akkodis.com. If you have questions about the position, please contact – dana.more@akkodisgroup.com Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled Benefit offerings include medical, dental, vision, term life insurance, short-term disability insurance, additional voluntary benefits, commuter benefits and 401K plan. Our program provides employees the flexibility to choose the type of coverage that meets their individual needs. Available paid leave may include Paid Sick Leave, where required by law; any other paid leave required by Federal, State, or local law; and Holiday pay upon meeting eligibility criteria. Disclaimer: These benefit offerings do not apply to client-recruited jobs and jobs which are direct hire to a client To read our Candidate Privacy Information Statement, which explains how we will use your information, please visit https://www.modis.com/en-us/candidate-privacy/. 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