Technical Product Manager - Enterprise Data

Technical Product Manager
- Enterprise Data

Posting Number: SP005346P

Division/College: Information Technology Services

Department: Enterprise Applications

Location: Moscow, Off Campus Location
- Possible remote/hybrid option

Posting Context Statement: 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. You will have direct visibility into executive leadership, real influence over institutional data strategy, and the opportunity to see your decisions drive outcomes in research, student success, and operations.

If you are motivated by purpose-driven work, complex problems, and building something that lasts, we want to hear from you.

Position Overview: This position coordinates the planning, design, and development of software applications. This position is responsible for the success of a product or family of products. This position will work closely with cross-functional business leaders, peers and technology leadership to ensure systems are positioned for the growth of the university. This includes performing or supervising analysis, design, development, and testing, to ensure the deployment of reliable, secure, and scalable business‑critical applications and platforms.

The Technical Product Manager works in a collaborative environment with business and technology owners and fosters a culture of teamwork and support across the university and within the technology team.

• Understand and represent user needs
• Define a vision and roadmap for a product
• Align stakeholders around the vision for the product
• Prioritize product features and capabilities
• Manage a product backlog
• Oversee development stages and evaluate progress
• Serve as a 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

Required Experience:

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

Required

Education:

• High School Diploma or equivalent

Required Other:

• None

Additional Preferred:

• Five or more years of experience 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 (e.g., 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 (e.g., 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

Physical Requirements &

Working Conditions:

• None

Degree Requirement: N/A:
No degree requirement

FLSA Status: Exempt

Employee Category: Exempt

Pay Range: $90,000.00 + DOE

Type of Appointment: Fiscal Year

FTE: 1

Full Time/Part Time: Full Time

Funding:

A visa sponsorship is available for the position listed in this vacancy: No

Posting Date: 07/29/2026

Closing Date:

Open Until Filled: Yes

Special Instructions to Applicants: Posting will remain open until a pool of qualified candidates are identified. Applications received on or before July 15, 2026, will receive first consideration.

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Background Check Statement: Applicants who are selected as final possible candidates must be able to pass a criminal background check.

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