Cloud Security Associate Product Owner

About the role: 

• This is a Full Time Employee senior technology position based out of the Sony Office in Bengaluru, India 

• This is a HANDS-ON role with a passion for understanding problems & opportunities, envisioning solutions, and driving development of Data and Analytics systems in support of Information Security & Compliance initiatives 

• The role is 80 to 90% focused on new initiatives & training end-users on existing systems (as applicable). The role may be called upon to provide some production support. 

Education: 

• A university (4-year) bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Data Science or Data Analytics is a must-have. 

• Solid knowledge of data analysis, data modeling, database design techniques, data structures and algorithms 

• Deep understanding of AWS database & data services 

• Solid understanding open-source database and data technologies, distributed databases including SQL, No-SQL and performance optimization 

Recruiting Team: 

The recruiting team works on various security domains like Endpoint Security, Inventory Mgmt., IAM, Threats & Vulnerabilities Mgmt., Reporting & Data Science.  

Prior Experience: 

• Minimum IT experience of 12 years 

• Must have a solid working knowledge of AWS database & data services and the Power BI stack 

• Must have a minimum experience of 10 years in gathering requirements, modeling data, designing & supporting high-performance ‘big data’ backend and data visualization systems 

• Must have a minimum experience of 7 years in utilizing methodologies & platform stacks like Map Reduce, Spark, Streaming solutions (like Kafka, Kinesis), ETL systems (like Glue, Firehose), storage (like S3), warehouse stacks (like Redshift, DynamoDB) and equivalent open source stacks 

• Minimum experience of 7 years with designing & implementing solutions using visualization technologies like Power BI, Quick Sight  

Responsibilities: 

• Day-to-day: 

• Capture problem statement and opportunities raised by customers as demand items2, epics & stories 

• Elicit requirements using techniques like design thinking, brainstorming, interview, stakeholder assessment, and prototyping 

• Lead data analysis, data modeling and database logical design sessions with stakeholders 

• Lead database physical design sessions with the engineers in the team 

• Employ UI, UX principles to design customer-focused and easy-to-use visualization solutions 

• Maintain and continuously groom the product backlog, the release pipeline, and the product roadmap 

• Constantly communicate the release pipeline and product roadmap to customers to customers via newsletters & department portal 

• Prioritize the features, and communicate the minimal viable product 

• Participate in customer demos as a key member representing the customer and raise issues where customer experience is degraded 

• Lead quality assurance, load test of the solution to ensure customer experience is maintained 

• Support data governance and data quality (cleansing) efforts 

• Less often, but important: 

• Without the need for customer inputs, continuously uncover problems and opportunities and capture as demand items 

• Along with other product owners, form the core group that provides thought leadership in the security data space 

• Along with other product owners, run the global & regional collaboration & innovation forums & exercises 

• Liaise with other departments and vendor partners to understand their products, services and employ creative ways to integrate to better operations 

• Work with the Architecture Group in running experiments, proof-of-concepts, proof-of-value and in validating the results 

Success Factors: 

• Be a relentless voice for the customer within the development and operations team and constantly look for ways to improve customer experience 

• Inquisitive mind, not afraid to ask questions and express opinions for the betterment of the operations 

• Have a pleasant, outgoing attitude with a passion to build strong relations with internal and external customers 

• Self-driven, motivated self-starter and not requiring day-to-day micromanagement 

• Critical thinking, analytical mind with problem-solving aptitude 

• Possess fluency in English and excellent oral and written communication skills 

• Be able to clearly articulate the - what, why, when, where, who and how 

• Be able to function in an environment where the team is virtual and geographically dispersed