Senior Product Manager - Data Lake (f/m/d)

Our Data Lake Team is looking for a Senior Product Manager (f/m/d) on a permanent contract based in Lille or Paris

At Decathlon, we believe in the power of sport to unite and inspire. Our mission: through sport, to make well-being accessible to as many people as possible, all over the world. To achieve this, data is at the heart of our strategy; it guides every decision, from product design to customer experience.

At the heart of the Decathlon Digital entity, we are looking for our future Senior Product Manager to join the Data Factory teams.

This technological platform, global to the entire group internationally, supports the development of Data and AI usage at Decathlon, from revenue calculation to assistance in designing innovative products.

We are responsible for the tools, scalability, implementation, and adherence to best development practices. We support all business stakeholders such as Data Analysts, Data Engineers, Analytics Engineers, and Data Scientists on a daily basis.

The Data Factory is designed as a Modern Data Stack, with a lakehouse at its core.

It is then divided into several teams, each led by a technical lead, with the ambition of working with a dedicated Product Manager.

Our Data Lake team is therefore the fundamental component of this mission.

Our mission? To provide storage solutions for Decathlon's entire Data Platform, while ensuring governance, robustness, and scalability by default. A true pillar of the technical governance of data assets, our team manages metadata via the Unity Catalog metastore and data contracts, thereby enabling the construction of global platform observability (usage, lineage, etc.). A technical playground with high impact and international scale challenges!

The team currently consists of:

• 1 Product Manager
• 1 Data Architect
• 1 Data Engineer
• 1 Software Engineer
• 2 Ops Engineers

Examples of current challenges:

• Improving our support offering to facilitate the user journey (documentation, incident management, ...).
• Discussing with Data/AI teams from countries and domains about their current challenges (sensitive data, private data, ...) to define our teams' priorities.
• How to facilitate data governance? For example, integrating automatic data validation rules, data contractualization, ...
• Rationalization of our offering and decommissioning of legacy systems.

YOUR FUTURE CONTRIBUTION

Our group's ambition to improve our customers' digital experience leads us to a new customer-oriented approach, a product approach.

The Product Manager for the Data Lake team:

• Acquires an understanding of their scope, the state of the art in the market, and the technical functioning of associated tools.
• Represents our business users, understands their challenges, and translates them to the technical teams.
• Supports the implementation of new features or products throughout their entire lifecycle (demos, training, communication, documentation, …).

You will be responsible for the evolution and robustness of this critical product for all Decathlon teams.

Your main missions will revolve around the following axes:

• Vision & Delivery: You will lead the complete product cycle, from Discovery to coordinating Delivery in close collaboration with the Leader. You will translate business and technical challenges into a clear, prioritized, and value-driven roadmap.

• Strategic Projects: You will lead the End-of-Life (EOL) of our Legacy systems, orchestrate the migration to the new infrastructure, and design new spaces and features on Unity Catalog.

• Governance & Operational Excellence: You will ensure fine-grained governance of the metastore, access management, and integrate security, performance, maintenance, and FinOps (cloud cost optimization) challenges into the core of your roadmap.

• Functional Leadership & Synergies: You will ensure the daily functional management of the technical team and may be involved in animating a cross-functional group of PMs on common topics to ensure the alignment of our global product vision.

• Impact Measurement: You will define and track key success indicators focused on the reliability and robustness of the platform and precise measurement of your products' usage. You will co-manage the product budget with the leader.
  
  

WHAT YOU BRING

• Experience: You have at least 5 years of experience as a Product Manager, with recognized legitimacy and success on complex or platform products.

• Technical & Data Expertise: You possess a strong technical aptitude and a solid understanding of data management, access, and governance issues. The ability to manipulate data is a real plus for this position.

• Tech & AI Culture: You master Artificial Intelligence tools applied to Product Management and have a perfect grasp of the underlying technical challenges (security, infrastructure, scalability).

• Soft Skills: User-oriented, you have a strong sense of service. You enjoy listening, delving into in-depth subjects, and proposing innovative solutions.

• Communication & Facilitator: You have excellent communication skills to simplify complex concepts, converse with both technical and business profiles, and rally people around your vision.

• Languages & Mindset: A fluent level of English (B2 minimum, written and oral) is required to operate in our international context. You are motivated, curious, ambitious, and you have a taste for challenge.

• The Decathlon Spark: You are passionate about sports, you want to share your passions with the team, and join a company with a positive impact!

TECHNICAL STACK

• AWS S3, Glue
• Databricks Lakehouse, Unity Catalog
• Data contracts
• Business Intelligence: Tableau
• Compute and Orchestration: Spark / Scala, Python, Airflow, dbt
• Ops: Terraform, Kubernetes
• Product Management: Jira Product Discovery, Github, Confluence
• AI: Gemini, Github Copilot

WHAT WE OFFER YOU

• Hybrid work organization;

• Equipment provided in line with your missions and our societal commitments (Mac or Windows);

• A local project team within a global network (possibility of international career);

• Skill development and support (diversity of projects, internal and external training, etc.);

• Compensation package (employee share ownership, monthly/quarterly bonuses).

OUR COMMITMENT TO INCLUSION AND ACCESSIBILITY

At Decathlon, we recognize the immense value that diversity brings to our teams, and we continuously strive to foster and cultivate an inclusive and equitable workplace: this is why Inclusion is one of our Human Fundamentals. We encourage individuals from all backgrounds and abilities to apply, as we are convinced that diversity of thought, culture, identity, and lived experience makes us stronger.

Decathlon is also committed to offering an inclusive and accessible selection process for all candidates. If you require any accommodations, you can request them via the application form; this request will be kept confidential. These requests do not affect the outcome of the recruitment process.