AVP, Evergreen Product Owner

As an AVP, Evergreen Data Product Owner at Synchrony, you will play a crucial role in advancing the development and management of curated, model-ready data assets to support enterprise-wide modeling and machine learning operations. Your responsibilities will include: - Engaging regularly with model developers, validators, and risk stakeholders to understand evolving data needs for model development, monitoring, and governance. - Driving the vision and execution of model operations data products, including curated model datasets, metadata standards, and integration with Model Lifecycle Operations pipelines. - Partnering with various functions to identify, define, and prioritize use cases requiring model-ready data. - Participating in PI Planning sessions and Agile ceremonies to align model operations data features with enterprise goals. - Coordinating end-to-end product delivery with data engineering, information architecture, and cloud platform teams. - Ensuring model operations data assets comply with internal data governance, metadata, lineage, and regulatory requirements. - Tracking and reporting project and program status, deliverables, and value realization. - Anticipating, escalating, and resolving cross-team risks, dependencies, and delivery blockers. - Facilitating alignment with technical teams when dependencies impact modeling data services. - Writing and prioritizing features and user stories with a clear understanding of stakeholder perspectives. - Leading post-production validation and maintaining standardized functional documentation for each feature. - Performing other duties and/or special projects as assigned. You should possess the following skills and knowledge: - Bachelors degree in a quantitative, technical, or data-focused field with 7+ years of experience, or 9+ years of experience in program or product management. - Experience managing programs or products, defining business needs, and coordinating cross-functional technical execution. - Experience in data integration, modeling, warehousing, or big data environments. - Agile or Product Owner certification. - Understanding of credit risk, fraud, marketing analytics, regulatory modeling, or consumer lending data environments. - Experience with cloud platforms, data lakes, and metadata management tools. Desired skills and knowledge include exceptional verbal and written communication, critical thinking, project management, leadership, and technical expertise in data analysis, statistical modeling, and machine learning. The work timings for this role are from 2PM to 11PM IST, with flexibility to work from home or Regional Engagement Hubs in Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Pune, Kolkata, or Delhi/NCR. Occasional travel to these hubs may be required for in-person engagement activities. Please note that internal applicants must meet specific criteria, inform their manager and HRM before applying, and ensure their professional profile is updated with the required information. Grade/Level: 11 Job Family Group: Data Analytics As an AVP, Evergreen Data Product Owner at Synchrony, you will play a crucial role in advancing the development and management of curated, model-ready data assets to support enterprise-wide modeling and machine learning operations. Your responsibilities will include: - Engaging regularly with model developers, validators, and risk stakeholders to understand evolving data needs for model development, monitoring, and governance. - Driving the vision and execution of model operations data products, including curated model datasets, metadata standards, and integration with Model Lifecycle Operations pipelines. - Partnering with various functions to identify, define, and prioritize use cases requiring model-ready data. - Participating in PI Planning sessions and Agile ceremonies to align model operations data features with enterprise goals. - Coordinating end-to-end product delivery with data engineering, information architecture, and cloud platform teams. - Ensuring model operations data assets comply with internal data governance, metadata, lineage, and regulatory requirements. - Tracking and reporting project and program status, deliverables, and value realization. - Anticipating, escalating, and resolving cross-team risks, dependencies, and delivery blockers. - Facilitating alignment with technical teams when dependencies impact modeling data services. - Writing and prioritizing features and user stories with a clear understanding of stakeholder perspectives. - Leading post-production validation and maintaining standardized functional documentation for each feature. - Performing other duties and/or special projects as assigned. You should possess the following skills and knowledge: - Bachelors degree in a quantitative, technical, or data-focused field with 7+ years of experience, or 9+ years of experience in program or product management. - Experience managing programs or products, defining business needs, and coordinati