Solutions Owner, Data & Analytics

The IT Solution Owner is accountable for the end-to-end definition coordination delivery and lifecycle stewardship of assigned technology solutions and initiatives. The role connects business objectives product priorities technical execution governance quality readiness and measurable outcomes. Working through influence rather than direct authority the Solution Owner leads cross-functional teams and serves as the day-to-day point of accountability from intake and discovery through implementation adoption operational transition and continuous improvement. The role flexes across Waterfall Agile hybrid pod-based and product-team delivery models while maintaining National Vision SDLC risk security compliance financial and documentation expectations. Within Data & Analytics the role owns delivery coordination and lifecycle stewardship for data products and initiatives such as dashboards semantic models data pipelines APIs governed datasets analytics capabilities and AI/ML-enabled solutions.

Essential Functions

Owns delivery from intake through value realization by clarifying the business objective expected outcome scope success measures delivery approach and accountable stakeholders; maintains continuity through launch transition and post-implementation learning. Some of the early stages of intake will be completed in partnership with the Strategic Transformation Office where applicable.

Serves as the primary day-to-day liaison across business product engineering architecture security quality assurance operations finance governance and vendor teams; translates between business priorities and technical delivery realities.

Tailors and leads the delivery model. Builds and maintains the appropriate roadmap release plan integrated schedule backlog milestones ceremonies tollgates decision cadence and governance for Waterfall Agile hybrid pod-based or product-team work.

Defines and maintains delivery clarity by coordinating requirements user stories process flows acceptance criteria architecture and design artifacts dependency plans test evidence training deployment operational readiness and approvals.

Partners with Product Owners and business leaders to shape priorities and value; partners with Solution Architects and engineering leaders to validate technical approach feasibility sequencing and alignment with enterprise standards.

Leads team execution by facilitating planning refinement estimation reviews retrospectives working sessions status reviews and decision forums; removes impediments and protects focus while encouraging shared accountability.

Manages scope schedule resources budget awareness vendors risks issues assumptions decisions changes and cross-team dependencies. Escalates early with clear options impacts recommendations and decision needs.

Drives quality and release confidence with QA engineering security operations and business stakeholders through test strategy traceability defect management user acceptance release readiness go/no-go decisions hypercare and support transition.

Provides concise transparent audience-appropriate reporting using milestones delivery forecasts financial information RIDAC/RAID and decision logs quality indicators and outcome measures. Uses team metrics to improve flow and predictability not to evaluate individuals.

Champions sustainable ways of working reusable delivery practices documentation quality knowledge transfer lessons learned and continuous improvement.

Identifies appropriate opportunities to use AI-enabled tools for analysis documentation backlog refinement prototyping delivery workflows and team productivity while following company security privacy and responsible-use requirements.

Additional Functions/Responsibilities

Partners with business data owners reporting owners data engineering data architecture analytics governance security and platform teams to define the data product intended decisions measures sources quality expectations and adoption plan.

Owns and maintains data-product roadmaps prioritized backlogs dependencies release plans acceptance criteria data validation lineage and documentation needs and measurable value outcomes.

Coordinates source-to-consumption delivery across ingestion transformation modeling semantic definitions reporting analytics access and operational support; surfaces trade-offs involving quality timeliness cost scalability and reuse.

Reinforces data governance by ensuring ownership definitions controls access privacy quality rules certification and change impacts are addressed before release.

Supports vendor and partner delivery while keeping business knowledge product ownership technical direction governance and roadmap accountability inside National Vision.

Qualifications :

Education

• Four year college degree or equivalent experience.
• Bachelors degree in Information Systems Computer Science Data/Analytics Engineering Business or related field; or equivalent practical experience. (Required)

Work Experience

• 4-6 years  Technology or data solution delivery including product/project/program management business analysis analytics delivery or data platform work.  (Required)
• Delivery of analytics reporting data integration data platform governance or data product initiatives across a full lifecycle. (Required)
• Application of Agile and hybrid practices to data work including iterative discovery data validation testing and release planning. (Required)
• Translation of business questions measures and decisions into data requirements and prioritized delivery plans. (Required)

Additional Skills - Includes Computer/Software Skills

• End-to-end technology delivery leadership across the software platform package implementation integration data or testing lifecycle. (Required)
• Business and functional analysis including requirements elicitation process decomposition user stories acceptance criteria and decision facilitation. (Required)
• Working knowledge of Waterfall Scrum Kanban scaled Agile hybrid delivery pod structures and persistent product teams. (Required)
• Project and program fundamentals including scope schedules budgets forecasts RIDAC/RAID change control dependencies vendor coordination and executive reporting. (Required)
• Understanding of SDLC controls architecture collaboration security and compliance checkpoints testing release management operational readiness and value realization. (Required)
• Executive presence facilitation negotiation conflict resolution written communication and the ability to synthesize complex information into decisions. (Required)
• Proficiency with work-management tools such as ServiceNow Azure DevOps Jira Confluence Microsoft 365 or comparable platforms. (Required)
• Ability to lead through influence create clarity in ambiguity balance near-term commitments with long-term direction and foster an accountable inclusive team environment. (Required)
• Working knowledge of data pipelines models semantic layers dashboards APIs data quality metadata security and cloud data concepts. (Required)
• Data-product thinking including vision roadmap use cases KPIs adoption value realization lifecycle decisions and enhancement prioritization. (Required)
• Ability to facilitate metric and definition alignment across sources business interpretations and downstream uses. (Required)
• Experience with Microsoft Azure data services Fabric Power BI Databricks Synapse or comparable modern data platforms. (Required)
• Basic SQL literacy or equivalent ability to interrogate data and collaborate with data engineers and analysts. (Required)

Licenses Certifications Professional Affiliations

• Agile or product ownership certifications such as CSM PSM SAFe CSPO PSPO or PMI-ACP.(Preferred)
• PMP or comparable delivery management certification or training. (Preferred)
• Data governance cloud data platform business intelligence analytics product management or responsible AI training. (Preferred)

Additional Information :

Taking Care of our People!

We understand the importance of financial health and security and because of that we provide competitive compensation to all associates. We also offer a comprehensive benefits package including health and dental insurance 401k retirement savings with company match flex spending account paid personal time off paid company holidays parental leave employee eyewear discount and much much more. At National Vision we strive to deliver opportunities for professional growth and long-term career fulfillment. We provide training programs and access to educational courses and pride ourselves on the ever-increasing amount of promotions from within.#LI-SH1

We are an equal opportunity employer.  We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin genetic information disability veteran status and other legally protected characteristics.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time