Product Owner Senior

Job#: 3049428

Job Description:

Product Owner Senior

Location: McLean, Virginia (Onsite)

Role Overview

This role will help transform the way in which the company manages and governs its critical data assets. The Product Owner - Master Data Management develops and drives the product vision and strategy for MDM capabilities, serving as the bridge between business stakeholders and technology teams to ensure authoritative, consistent, and trusted master data across the Multifamily division. This role will support the product management of the Master Data Management program delivery execution, which is critical to driving Data Modernization and ensuring golden record integrity.

Key Responsibilities

• Set an ambitious and clear product vision for MDM capabilities and communicate the strategy effectively to key stakeholders and the team.
• Own the end-to-end MDM product strategy from inception, defining business value through improved data quality, reduced redundancy, and trusted data assets in production.
• Ensure alignment of MDM product features and stories and prioritize user stories in line with the MDM and Data Product Roadmap.
• Continuously improve the backlog, ensuring all items related to data matching, merging, survivorship rules, and data stewardship workflows are clearly described, estimated, and prioritized.
• Ensure customer-driven design by considering data consumer pain points, data quality metrics, and usability test results, using market and industry knowledge to deliver well-positioned MDM solutions.
• Define and refine master data domains (e.g., counterparty, property) and their associated governance models.
• Drive sprint and release plans together with the Scrum Coach and organizational technology teams.
• Work with the Development Lead to build modular and reusable MDM solutions, including match/merge logic, hierarchy management, and data stewardship capabilities.
• Define and monitor data quality KPIs, stewardship SLAs, and master data health metrics to drive continuous improvement.

Required Qualifications

Experience: Must have 5+ years of experience as a Product Owner. A solid understanding of the mortgage industry, preferably commercial or multifamily real estate and their underlying loan lifecycles is required, along with 5+ years of data-related experience with a focus on master data management, data delivery, or data governance. Experience delivering large, complex change management projects involving multiple teams is necessary. Candidates should be highly collaborative and comfortable working cross-functionally.

Technical Skills: Must have strong Jira experience and a solid understanding of Master Data Management, particularly complex MDM rules and processes. Experience with MDM concepts including golden record creation, match/merge/survivorship rules, data stewardship, hierarchy management, and reference data management is needed. Strong hands-on data analysis skills are required to support data profiling, data quality assessment, data mapping, data querying, and duplicate identification. Experience with data-focused technologies such as relational, non-relational, on-prem, and off-prem databases, as well as MDM-specific architectures is also required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to leverage product-facing soft-skills and technical MDM/data analysis hard skills simultaneously.
• Strong stakeholder alignment and influencing skills, a product-focused mindset, and the ability to own a product and make decisions independently.
• Understanding the priorities of Data Modernization and how master data governance underpins operational processes.
• Experience representing a data team as the principal contact and subject matter expert for Master Data Management.
• Highly motivated, adaptive, persistent, and self-driven.

Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.

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Everforth Apex Benefits Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.

Everforth Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.

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Employee Type:

Contract

Location:

Mclean, VA, US

Job Type:

Date Posted:

September 2, 2026

Pay Range:

$45 - $62 per hour

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