Technical Product Manager - Enterprise Data

Position Title

Technical Product Manager - Enterprise Data

Moscow, Off Campus Location – Possible remote/hybrid option

The University of Idaho’s Office of Information Technology is hiring a Technical Product Manager to lead a multi‑year data modernization initiative. This role owns the work from the ground up, shaping architecture, governance, and adoption strategy for a scalable, governed, analytics‑ready data platform. Direct visibility into executive leadership, real influence over institutional data strategy, and the opportunity to drive outcomes in research, student success, and operations.

• Understand and represent user needs
• Define vision and roadmap for a product
• Align stakeholders around product vision
• Prioritize product features and capabilities
• Manage product backlog
  
  Oversee development stages and evaluate progress
• Serve as liaison between department stakeholders and the Office of Information Technology development team
• Collaborate across teams to empower independent decision‑making
• Administer applications
• Provide high‑level reporting to departments across the university
• Other duties as assigned

• Three years working with software applications in a technical or functional support role
• Prioritizing work and ensuring projects and workloads are completed on time

• High School Diploma or equivalent

• Five or more years working with software applications in a technical or functional leadership role
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Management of Information Systems, Information Technology, or a related field
• Agile certification (Product Owner, Scrum Master, or similar)
• Experience with cloud‑based data lakehouse platforms (Databricks preferred), including workspace administration, Unity Catalog, and Delta Lake concepts
• Data governance frameworks, stewardship models, and metadata management practices
• Regulated data environments and applicable compliance requirements (FERPA, HIPAA, or similar)
• ERP data structures in student, HR, or finance domains (Banner/Ellucian preferred)
• BI platform connectivity and supporting analytical consumers (Power BI, Tableau, or similar)
• Data ingestion patterns, pipeline tooling, and warehousing concepts
• Higher education technology environments, shared governance, and constituent‑sensitive operations
• Translating between technical platform capabilities and non‑technical institutional audiences
• Leading cross‑functional initiatives with distributed stakeholders and competing priorities
• Azure or other cloud environments

$90,000.00 + DOE

The University of Idaho is an equal employment opportunity employer, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.