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A Product Owner at this client works closely with the Business and Product team to clearly understand the business needs and product vision. A Product Owner will have responsibility for the creation and management of Feature Backlogs to meet the identified needs aligned with the product vision. A Product Owner works closely with the Engineering teams to deliver on the prioritized Feature Backlog within an Agile development methodology.

-Partners with the Director of Product Management to thoroughly understand the product vision and

represents this vision throughout the development lifecycle

-Partners closely with the Business to thoroughly understand the request and works diligently to achieve a solution which addresses the needs

-Partners with Business Architecture to validate technical changes and business process improvements to maintain alignment with the technical architecture roadmap and strategy

-Creates, socializes, and routinely grooms the Feature Backlog so it is visible, transparent and clear to all

-Elaborates epics into user stories that are detailed enough to properly represent the true need request

and refined appropriately to be achieved within the sprint cycle

-Responsible for detailed requirements engineering to fully document acceptance criteria and implementation detail which support the related product feature

-Prioritizes the Feature Backlog to best achieve identified objectives in alignment with Product and Business priorities

-Ensures the Engineering Team understands items in the Feature Backlog to the level necessary to meet the identified Business and Customer needs

-Partners with the Engineering Team to optimize the sequence and value of work performed in each sprint iteration to achieve most efficient and cost effective delivery

-Partners and represents the Customer (internal/external) during the development process to ensure the

proper product is built to meet the identified need(s)

-Facilitates the acceptance of work in alignment with the Engineering Team, Product Management, and identified key Business stakeholders

-Responsible for tactical product development decisions in alignment with the informed Product vision

-Compiles and analyze enhancement requests from stakeholders, drives the prioritization, slotting and implementation process

-Serves as a product component expert to answer product feature questions, validate enhancement

requests and other functional support as necessary

-Ability to initiate and drive efforts to completion and follow through on commitments with minimal guidance

-Demonstrated time-management skills and the ability to guide multiple efforts simultaneously

-Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the willingness to present and defend your ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences

-Demonstrated ability to lead and participate effectively in cross-functional teams

-Active listener to understand what the stakeholders and customers true needs are and not just their wants/desires

-Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills to discover the stakeholders and customers latent needs and not just take orders

-Ability to create well-structured stories which accurately represent the request in adequate detail for a

Developer to easily understand without making assumptions

-Ability to verbally articulate the customer needs in a manner which complements the written user stories

-Ability to effectively partner and communicate with multiple roles and levels throughout the IT organization and the Business

-Understanding of technical components and terms in a manner which allows for effective communication  with the Development Team

-Demonstrated interface between the Development Team and the key stakeholders in Product and the Business

-Proven ability to deal with conflict and the aptitude to resolve conflict with minimal escalation

-Understanding of when a conflict must be effectively escalated in order to gain quick resolution

-Demonstrated ability to establish credibility as a subject matter expert

-2 to 3+ years of experience in a technology product owner or senior business analyst role

-Experience working with development teams employing Lean and/or Agile methodologies such as Scrum

-Experience collaboratively distilling high-level requirements/epics into detailed user stories for Development Team consumption

-Solid technical experience in software and web technologies related to the Financial sector

-Business familiarity with financial services industry

-Experience using Jira and Confluence to manage product backlogs and supporting details

-A track record of excellence in team dynamics and cross-functional collaboration