IT Product Manager, Consultant

Data Services And Solutions Team Lead

The Data Services and Solutions team is responsible for the technical design and end-to-end delivery of complex, data-driven solutions and products across the enterprise. We are looking for a seasoned professional who brings a strong combination of deep technical expertise and product ownership, with proven experience in delivering complex data solutions. This position reports to the Sr. Manager, Data Services and Solutions and will partner closely with Enterprise Architecture, Portfolio, Analytics, and Data Engineering teams.

If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, have a passion for data innovation, and bring a strong blend of product ownership and technical solutioning skills, we'd love to hear from you.

Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

1. Lead product strategy and roadmap development for enterprise data products, translating business needs into actionable technical requirements and user stories.
2. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define use cases, prioritize features, and drive delivery using agile methodologies including sprint planning and backlog grooming.
3. Architect and design scalable cloud-based data solutions including data lakes, data warehouses, and data marts.
4. Provide technical leadership in solution design, risk mitigation, and issue resolution across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid ecosystems.
5. Champion best practices in cloud architecture, data infrastructure cost optimization, and DevOps automation.
6. Maintain and evolve technology inventories, reference models, standards, and usage guidelines.
7. Evangelize data and analytics capabilities across business and IT teams, fostering a culture of innovation and data-driven decision-making.
8. Monitor and optimize data product performance, identifying opportunities for enhancement and scalability.
9. Work closely with engineering and analytics teams to ensure timely, high-quality delivery of data solutions.
10. Apply CI/CD practices and automation across documentation, testing, build, deployment, configuration, and monitoring.
11. Partner with portfolios to define technical requirements, principles, and models that guide data solution decisions.
12. Use comprehensive analytical thinking to assess time-to-market, cost impact, and business value across people, process, and technology.

Qualifications

Your knowledge and experience:

• Typically requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience and minimum 7 years of prior relevant experience.
• Proven experience in data product management, including backlog grooming, feature prioritization, and stakeholder engagement.
• Strong hands-on expertise in SQL and Python; experience with ETL pipelines, Snowflake, DBT
• Familiarity with source control and project management tools such as Bitbucket, Git, and JIRA.
• Experience with data modeling, MDM and data governance tools
• Deep understanding of data architecture, privacy, security, and performance optimization in large-scale environments.
• Experience with NoSQL and modern data platforms (Snowflake, Synapse, Databricks).
• Excellent communication and leadership skills with the ability to influence and align diverse stakeholders.
• Azure or Snowflake Cloud Certification is a plus.
• Healthcare experience is a plus

About Us

Stellarus, launched in January 2025, is designed to scale innovative healthcare solutions that support customers in creating a health care experience deserving of their family, friends, and neighbors. Stellarus is part of a family of organizations that is overseen by a nonprofit corporate entity named Ascendiun. The Ascendiun Family of Companies also includes Blue Shield of California and its subsidiary, Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan and Altais, a clinical services company.

Stellarus' vision is to empower its customers to create a healthcare experience that is worthy of their family, friends, and neighbors. Stellarus' objective is to offer innovative, modern, scalable solutions that challenge the health care status quo. This very closely aligns with Blue Shield of California's vision by using innovation to improve quality, affordability, and experience for members.

To achieve our mission, we foster an environment where all employees can thrive and contribute fully to address the needs of the various communities we serve. We are committed to creating and maintaining a supportive workplace that upholds our values and advances our goals.

Our core values of agility, trust, drive, courage, and service shape our approach to developing innovative product offerings.

We believe in fostering a workplace environment that balances purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility - providing clear expectations while respecting the diverse needs of our workforce. Our workplace model is designed around intentional in-person interaction, collaboration, connection, creativity, and flexibility:

• For most teams, this means coming into the office two days per week.
• Employees living more than 50 miles from an office location, out of state employees, and employees in certain member-facing roles should work with their manager to determine in-office time based on business need.
• For employees with medical conditions that may impact their ability to work in-office, we are committed to engaging in an interactive process and providing reasonable accommodations to ensure their work environment is conducive to their success and well-being.

The Company reserves the right to require more presence in the office based on business needs, and requirements are subject to change with periodic reviews.

Office Environment - roles involving part to full time schedule in Office Environment. Based in our physical offices and work from home office/deskwork - Activity level: Sedentary, frequency most of work day.

External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest records and/or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with Federal, State and local laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disability status and any other classification protected by Federal, State and local laws.