About the role

Senior Technical Product Owner driving delivery of modern behavioral health data platform at DHCS. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure accurate, timely, and actionable data pipelines.

Responsibilities

Drive delivery of DHCS’s modern data platform and behavioral health (BH) data products
Own the backlog for data engineering teams and ensure alignment between business, policy, and technical objectives
Partner with Product Managers, data engineers, analysts, and policy experts to enable accurate, timely, and actionable data pipelines and reporting capabilities
Convert objectives, key results, product strategy, and roadmaps into well-groomed, prioritized backlogs that deliver measurable value, improve data quality, and ensure compliance with state and federal behavioral health reporting requirements
Collaborate with Product Managers to define and maintain product objectives and key results (OKRs)
Align backlog priorities with strategic goals, compliance mandates, and agency-wide data initiatives
Collaborate with Product & Delivery Managers on budget oversight and financial accountability
Support delivery of core data products including reporting pipelines, compliance dashboards, analytics tools, and data integration services
Ensure data solutions enable oversight, performance monitoring, and cross-county learning
Define, track, and report on success metrics (e.g., data quality, pipeline performance, reporting accuracy, adoption)
Lead agile ceremonies with cross-functional teams (engineering, analytics, UX, policy)
Champion the voice of data users and ensure solutions meet the needs of DHCS analysts, leadership, and counties

7+ years in product ownership with significant experience in data, analytics, and reporting
Proven track record managing complex data engineering or analytics backlogs in an Agile environment
Experience with reporting requirements development, data modeling, data platforms, data pipelines, and analytics tools (e.g., Databricks, Snowflake, PowerBI, Tableau)
Demonstrated ability to translate policy and compliance requirements into technical product deliverables
Demonstrated experience supporting products or teams operating in cloud-based environments such as AWS and Azure, with a strong understanding of infrastructure, deployment workflows, and cloud-native service integration
Background in healthcare, government, or compliance-driven industries strongly preferred.