Technical Product Owner — Burtch Works, Chicago, IL

Job Title: Technical Product Owner

Location: Chicago, IL (hybrid, 3 days onsite)

Employment Type: Permanent, full-time (exempt)

Openings: 2 (new headcount)

Target Compensation: $107,650 to $130,000

About The Company

Our client is a leading global law firm building out a modern Databricks data platform and business intelligence layer that supports attorneys and firm operations.

Job Summary

We are seeking two hands-on Technical Product Owners, one for the Data Platform team and one for the Business Intelligence team. Each owns the backlog for a Scrum team, writes the technical user stories engineers build from, runs Agile ceremonies and drives delivery. This is a product ownership role, not a Scrum Master or project manager role.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the product backlog for data platform or BI capabilities, prioritizing with engineering leadership and business stakeholders.

• Break technical epics into user stories with clear acceptance criteria that engineers can execute.

• Lead sprint planning, backlog refinement, stand-ups, reviews and retrospectives for an assigned Scrum team.

• Track milestones, dependencies, risks and Agile metrics, and report status to stakeholders and director-level leadership.

• Coordinate across data engineering, BI engineering, QA, DevOps, infrastructure and security on development, testing and releases.

• Support roadmap and release planning, including release readiness, UAT, deployment planning and post-release validation.

• Partner with engineering on ingestion pipelines, transformations, enterprise and semantic data models, reporting and self-service analytics.

• Apply data quality, governance and documentation practices throughout delivery.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Business or a related field, or equivalent experience.

• 5+ years in technical product ownership, software or project delivery, or related roles.

• Direct ownership of technical backlogs: creating, prioritizing, refining and grooming.

• Experience writing detailed technical user stories and acceptance criteria independently.

• Experience independently leading Scrum ceremonies and sprint execution for a technical team.

• Working knowledge of data concepts: databases, data structures, ingestion, pipelines, data modeling, APIs and BI.

• Hands-on experience with Jira, Azure DevOps or similar tools.

• Strong communication skills with engineers, stakeholders and senior leadership.

Preferred Qualifications

• Data platform, data engineering or business intelligence product experience.

• Exposure to Databricks, Snowflake, Azure, AWS, Power BI, Cognos or similar platforms; medallion architecture.

• Data governance, data quality or metadata management experience.

• CSPO, CSM or comparable Agile certification; CDMP or comparable data management certification.

• Professional services experience (legal, financial or consulting).

SQL, Python and hands-on coding are not required.

Work Arrangement

Full-time in Chicago with a standard expectation of five days per week in the office; a minimum of three days onsite may be available at the firm's discretion.

Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or in the future.