Hiring: Manager, Data Products Company: Altria Location: Richmond, VA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-14 14:36:18 Employment Type: Contract / Hybrid Target Skills & Keywords : Azure, Data Lake, Databricks, Delta Lake, Portfolio Management, SQL, Spark About the job Experience: •5+ years in data and analytics, including hands-on engineering, architecture, or platform experience, with at least 3 years leading delivery or managing a portfolio of data work. •At least 3 years leading delivery or managing a portfolio of data work. Qualifications: •We are currently seeking a Manager, Data Products, to join our Enterprise Data Strategy and AI Enablement function in Richmond, VA. with a Hybrid work schedule, relocation benefits will be provided. •Demand Intake and Portfolio Management •Intake is the product this role manages first. It should be predictable enough that a business sponsor knows what happens to a request the day they submit it. •Own end-to-end demand intake for data and analytics: capture, qualify, size, prioritize, and disposition every incoming request against enterprise priorities and available capacity. •Run intake itself as a managed service — publish service levels, maintain a single transparent backlog, and report throughput, aging, and demand mix to business and technology leadership. •Translate business problems into data product definitions with named consumers, source systems, quality expectations, and success measures before build work begins. •Facilitate a standing prioritization forum with business stakeholders and COE leadership, making trade-offs explicit rather than resolving them quietly. •Identify duplicate and overlapping requests and consolidate them into reusable data products instead of one-off deliverables. •Guidance to Outsourced Data Architecture and Data Management Teams •Partners execute much of the delivery. This role sets the technical direction they follow and decides what is good enough to accept. Compensation: •$137,500 - $199,450 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!