Lead Product Owner, Data Platform

Location: Woking, United Kingdom; office based in the UK, with remote work considered for the right candidate. Occasional business travel of up to 10–15% is required.

Company

hirify.global’s IDBS provides software solutions for scientific informatics, helping life sciences and biopharma organisations manage scientific data and accelerate drug discovery and manufacturing.

What you will do

• Own the vision, roadmap, performance, and outcome-focused requirements for the Data Platform.
• Define product metrics and non-functional requirements for ingestion, throughput, resilience, disaster recovery, cost governance, and contract adherence.
• Drive data contract and schema evolution across laboratory domains, managing breaking and non-breaking changes.
• Coordinate dependencies and critical-path delivery across product streams through PI Planning and collaboration with Product Owners and engineering leads.
• Lead discovery with data engineers, informatics leads, MSAT, Tech Ops, and enterprise customers; validate sandboxes, replay pipelines, and governed sharing with Snowflake, Databricks, and Power BI.
• Establish operational quality practices, incident triage, monitoring, runbooks, data integrity, tenant isolation, access control, data residency, and audit readiness.

Requirements

• Experience as a Product Owner or Product Manager for data or platform products in enterprise software, translating technical infrastructure into INVEST-compliant stories and measurable data product metrics.
• Deep understanding of modern lakehouse architecture, including medallion data tiers, transactional storage engines, and change data capture patterns such as Databricks and Delta Lake.
• Strong knowledge of scientific data modelling, including unstructured-to-structured transformation, data contracts, schema evolution, ontologies, and provenance standards such as W3C PROV.
• Practical experience with laboratory integration and ingestion patterns from instruments and edge collectors such as OPC UA and AWS Greengrass to central storage, including streaming and batch trade-offs.
• Experience in regulated GxP environments with ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 controls, data integrity, ALCOA+ principles, audit trails, and multi-tenant security boundaries.
• Strong cross-functional communication skills with data engineers, informatics leads, commercial teams, and enterprise customers.
• Practical experience with Agile and Lean delivery, PI Planning, and cross-stream dependency management.

Culture & Benefits

• Senior individual contributor role in an Agile and Lean environment, leading through influence.
• Work is aligned across multiple product streams through Programme Increment Planning.
• Comprehensive benefits, including healthcare programs and paid time off.
• Occasional travel is required for PI planning events, customer visits, and company meetings.