Ascendum Solutions
Product Owner
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This role is for a Data Focused Product Owner on a 6-12 month contract, offering a pay rate of "unknown." It requires strong experience with Azure data services, SQL Server migration, and Agile environments, with on-site work 4 days a week.
🌎 - Country
United States
💱 - Currency
$ USD
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💰 - Day rate
Unknown
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🗓️ - Date
May 5, 2026
🕒 - Duration
More than 6 months
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🏝️ - Location
Hybrid
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📄 - Contract
Unknown
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🔒 - Security
Unknown
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📍 - Location detailed
Irvine, CA
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🧠 - Skills detailed
#"ETL (Extract #Transform #Load)" #Azure #Azure Databricks #ADF (Azure Data Factory) #Microsoft SQL #Databricks #Databases #Documentation #SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Services) #Migration #Azure Data Factory #Agile #Microsoft SQL Server #MS SQL (Microsoft SQL Server) #Azure SQL #SSIS (SQL Server Integration Services) #ADLS (Azure Data Lake Storage) #SQL Server #Stories #Leadership #SQL (Structured Query Language) #Delta Lake
Role description
Data Focused Product Owner
Key Responsibilities
• Act as the primary liaison between business stakeholders, Azure platform engineers, Databricks engineers, and governance teams.
• Communicate progress, risks, and decisions to leadership and project sponsors.
• Provide documentation, training, and enablement to help teams adopt new Azure + Databricks workflows and capabilities.
• Conduct current-state analysis of SQL Server databases, SSIS/SSRS workloads, and legacy ETL pipelines to determine migration scope and modernization opportunities.
• Document business processes, data flows, data definitions, and system interactions across both legacy and Azure target architectures.
• Translate business needs into functional and non-functional requirements for Azure Databricks, ADLS, ADF, and related services.
• Facilitate workshops and stakeholder interviews to validate requirements, clarify assumptions, and align expectations.
Required Skills & Experience
• Experience as a Product Owner, Business Systems Analyst, or hybrid role in data-centric environments.
• Strong understanding of Azure data services, including Azure Databricks, ADLS Gen2, Azure Data Factory, and Azure SQL.
• Familiarity with Delta Lake, distributed compute concepts, and modern ELT/ETL patterns.
• Experience analyzing and migrating workloads from Microsoft SQL Server.
• Ability to write clear user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, and system documentation.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments.
Other:
1. 6-12 month contract to hire (full benefits/PTO available prior to FTE conversion), candidates should be eligible to work for any employer in the United States without needing Visa sponsorship.
1. On-site duties 4 days/week, 1 day working remote
Data Focused Product Owner
Key Responsibilities
• Act as the primary liaison between business stakeholders, Azure platform engineers, Databricks engineers, and governance teams.
• Communicate progress, risks, and decisions to leadership and project sponsors.
• Provide documentation, training, and enablement to help teams adopt new Azure + Databricks workflows and capabilities.
• Conduct current-state analysis of SQL Server databases, SSIS/SSRS workloads, and legacy ETL pipelines to determine migration scope and modernization opportunities.
• Document business processes, data flows, data definitions, and system interactions across both legacy and Azure target architectures.
• Translate business needs into functional and non-functional requirements for Azure Databricks, ADLS, ADF, and related services.
• Facilitate workshops and stakeholder interviews to validate requirements, clarify assumptions, and align expectations.
Required Skills & Experience
• Experience as a Product Owner, Business Systems Analyst, or hybrid role in data-centric environments.
• Strong understanding of Azure data services, including Azure Databricks, ADLS Gen2, Azure Data Factory, and Azure SQL.
• Familiarity with Delta Lake, distributed compute concepts, and modern ELT/ETL patterns.
• Experience analyzing and migrating workloads from Microsoft SQL Server.
• Ability to write clear user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, and system documentation.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments.
Other:
1. 6-12 month contract to hire (full benefits/PTO available prior to FTE conversion), candidates should be eligible to work for any employer in the United States without needing Visa sponsorship.
1. On-site duties 4 days/week, 1 day working remote
