Senior Product Owner, Metadata and Lineage Operations

About OP Financial Group and the Role

We are seeking a Product Owner for the Data Trustworthiness tribe within OP Financial Group's AI & Data department. This position is based in Helsinki or Oulu, with a flexible combination of on-site and remote work in line with OP Financial Group's principles.

OP Financial Group is evolving towards a modern, data-product-based ecosystem where data is a crucial competitive advantage. We build solutions that ensure data is truly reliable, transparent, and easily usable, from business decision-making to advanced AI solutions. We are modernizing our architecture to be cloud-based, strengthening data governance models, and establishing professional, consistent, and high-quality data production and maintenance practices. Join us in building a framework that will enable OP Financial Group's next growth leap and drive the entire organization towards a data-driven future.

The Metadata and Lineage Operations team manages OP Financial Group's metadata and data flow descriptions, developing and maintaining solutions that ensure reliable traceability of data origin, changes, and usage. The team operates metadata and lineage technologies, supports their processes, and promotes data discoverability and continuous improvements.

What We Are Looking For

We are looking for an experienced Senior Product Owner with a strong understanding of metadata management, data lineage, and modern data governance. You have experience in leading development, guiding team priorities, and ensuring solutions meet both business and regulatory requirements.

• Experience in Product Owner roles or other roles leading development, prioritizing backlogs, and collaborating closely with technical and business stakeholders.
• Understanding of metadata and lineage concepts, processes, tools, and their significance for data discoverability, quality, and compliance.
• Ability to grasp the entire data lifecycle: data origin, transformations, usage, and dependencies.
• Proven track record of successful change initiatives and the ability to act as a change leader, implementing new operating models, processes, and technologies.
• Experience in prioritizing complex initiatives, clear communication, and facilitating decision-making.
• Good understanding of processes and agile development.
• Analytical, solution-oriented, and systematic approach to work.
• Proficiency in both Finnish and English.

Additional Valued Skills

• Understanding of financial sector regulations, auditing, and reporting requirements.
• Experience in using, developing, or operating metadata and lineage tools (e.g., Collibra).

What We Offer

In the Senior Product Owner, Metadata and Lineage Operations role, you will do truly meaningful work. You will build OP Financial Group's data transparency and reliability in a way that enables the success of the entire organization and accelerates OP Financial Group's journey towards a data-driven future.

We operate on a 70-20-10 principle: 70% of your time for daily tasks, 20% for refining working methods, and 10% for learning new skills, for example, in our own OP Tech Academy. Yes, you can expand your expertise during working hours!

In return for responsible work, we prioritize your well-being and forward-looking work arrangements. We offer a stable environment where responsibility, human-centricity, and succeeding together are core values.

You will have access to our diverse employee benefits, including an employee fund and staff-rate banking, insurance, and loan services. We also offer comprehensive occupational healthcare, extensive medical expense insurance, and full-time accident insurance. We promote work-life balance and flexibility, offering lunch, sports, and cultural benefits, as well as the opportunity for affordable vacations in OP Financial Group's holiday properties.

Application Process

If you are interested, please apply by Sunday, March 1, 2026, by attaching your CV and cover letter. Tell us about your expertise and motivation for the role. For more information, contact Competence Lead Minna Kurri (minna.kurri@op.fi, +358 40 019 2192). Minna is best reached on February 12, 2026, from 10-11 AM and February 26, 2026, from 10-11 AM.

In the financial sector, trust and responsibility are the foundation of our operations. Therefore, for selected candidates, credit information, business connections, potential conflicts of interest will be checked, a drug test will be conducted, and a basic security clearance by the Finnish Security Intelligence Service will be performed.

OP Financial Group – We have something in common

OP Financial Group is a diverse and inclusive workplace. It is important to us that everyone feels welcome and valued. We appreciate the richness and diverse perspectives that diversity brings. We encourage everyone to apply to work with us, because we have something in common.

We are customer-owned and the most attractive employer in the Finnish financial sector, employing over 14,000 professionals. Our basic mission is to promote the sustainable financial success, security, and well-being of our owner-customers and operating environment. Working with us is meaningful for our employees and others, as Finland's largest financial player, we build a more hopeful future with our work. We have been doing this for over 120 years.

Key skills/competency

• Product Ownership
• Metadata Management
• Data Lineage
• Data Governance
• Agile Development
• Backlog Prioritization
• Stakeholder Management
• Data Lifecycle
• Change Management
• Financial Regulation