Contract · 6–12 months
Title · Senior Product Manager, Integration & Data Platforms
Hybrid · 4 days on-site · Markham, ON | Integration Modernization
Senior Product Manager, Data & Integration
We're partnering with a leading enterprise organization undergoing a large-scale integration and data modernization initiative. This role is ideal for a senior product leader who excels at translating complex business, technology, and data requirements into scalable solutions and actionable roadmaps.
The successful candidate will own the product strategy and delivery of enterprise integration and data capabilities, ensuring reliable, secure, and efficient movement of information across critical business platforms. This position sits at the intersection of Product Management, Data Engineering, Enterprise Architecture, and Business Operations.
What You'll Be Doing
- Own the product roadmap and backlog for enterprise integration and data modernization initiatives.
- Lead end-to-end value streams supporting data movement, system integration, API enablement, and digital transformation programs.
- Define and prioritize epics, features, user stories, and acceptance criteria across Agile delivery teams.
- Partner with business stakeholders, architects, and engineering teams to gather requirements and translate them into scalable technical solutions.
- Drive modernization of legacy integrations, ETL processes, and batch data exchanges toward API-driven and event-based architectures.
- Oversee enterprise data streams and system integrations, ensuring secure, reliable, and scalable data flow across platforms.
- Collaborate with Data Engineering teams to improve data pipelines, data quality, data governance, and operational efficiencies.
- Support initiatives involving data lakes, data warehouses, analytics platforms, customer data platforms (CDPs), and enterprise reporting environments.
- Design and document process flows, integration patterns, API interactions, data lineage, and end-to-end data flow diagrams.
- Facilitate value stream mapping exercises to identify bottlenecks, optimize workflows, and improve delivery performance.
- Monitor and report on key metrics including throughput, cycle time, predictability, data quality, API performance, and integration reliability.
- Lead cross-functional coordination for capacity planning, dependency management, release readiness, risk mitigation, and production support.
- Participate in troubleshooting, root cause analysis, data validation, and resolution of integration and data-related issues.
What You Bring
- 5+ years of experience as a Senior Product Manager, Technical Product Manager, Value Stream Owner, Technical Product Owner, or Senior Business Systems Analyst.
- Proven experience leading enterprise integration, digital transformation, data platform, or modernization initiatives.
- Strong understanding of Agile, SAFe, Lean principles, and value stream management.
- Experience owning products or programs involving:
- Enterprise data platforms
- Data integration
- Data engineering
- Data modernization
- Analytics and reporting ecosystems
- Enterprise application integration
- Strong understanding of:
- Data lakes
- Data warehouses
- ETL/ELT processes
- Data pipelines
- Data governance
- Master Data Management (MDM)
- Data lineage
- Metadata management
- API-led integration patterns
- Experience working with batch and real-time data processing, event-driven architectures, and enterprise data streams.
- Familiarity with technologies such as Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Snowflake, Kafka, Event Hub, MuleSoft, Informatica, Talend, SSIS, or similar platforms.
- Strong SQL skills with experience performing data analysis, validation, troubleshooting, and data quality assessments.
- Experience partnering with Data Engineering, Integration Engineering, Enterprise Architecture, Analytics, and Business teams.
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, and cross-functional leadership capabilities.
- Experience with Jira and/or Azure DevOps.
Nice to Have
- Experience with customer engagement platforms, CDPs, field service platforms, CRM, ERP, and operational systems.
- Exposure to cloud-native data platforms and modern integration architectures.
- Knowledge of data observability, data quality frameworks, and governance best practices.
- PMP, SAFe, Agile Product Management, CSPO, or related certifications.
Ideal Candidate Profile
We're looking for a Product Manager who has successfully delivered data-intensive initiatives and understands how enterprise data moves across complex ecosystems. The ideal candidate has worked closely with Data Engineering teams, managed integration or data platform roadmaps, and can confidently discuss data lakes, ETL/ELT pipelines, API integrations, event streaming, data governance, and enterprise-wide data modernization programs.
