Technical Product Owner- Payments
Brooksource
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Job Details
Skills
- Windows Imaging Component
- Financial Software
- Clarity
- Roadmaps
- Authorization
- Integration Testing
- Shipping
- Collaboration
- Partnership
- Agile
- SAFE
- Data Flow
- Communication
- Payments
- Order Management
- Finance
- Workflow
- Orchestration
- Apache Kafka
- Google Cloud Platform
- Google Cloud
- Payment Card Industry
- Regulatory Compliance
- Retail
- Electronic Commerce
- Requirements Elicitation
- Status Reports
Summary
Our client is an Enterprise Midwest Retailer and they're growing their back-end Payments team within the Digital org. The Payments team owns the tender, authorization, capture, and settlement flow for all digital orders - credit (including mobile wallets via a tokenization provider), and government benefit tenders (SNAP, WIC) - spanning several backend services and downstream order/financial systems. This contract TPO will own backlog clarity, acceptance criteria, and delivery decisions for one or more of these services, working closely with engineers and architects already on the team. This is a delivery-focused contract role, while they will own and maintain the payment roadmap, in alignemnt to their leader.
What You'll Be Doing
- Translate business and compliance requirements into well-defined features, stories, and testable acceptance criteria for payments/tender flows.
- Maintain backlog ordering, readiness, and transparency for the team(s) you support; make timely scope and priority calls to keep delivery moving.
- Develop a working understanding of the payment pipeline (tender selection, authorization/capture, card tokenization, partial/split capture for marketplace orders, government benefit tender handling) sufficient to make informed tradeoffs with engineering.
- Partner with engineers/architects on discovery and refinement without dictating implementation; flag ambiguous requirements, dependency gaps, and risk early.
- Validate delivered work against acceptance criteria and intended outcome, including coordination of functional/integration testing across tender types.
- Ownership in release readiness for payments changes - understand what's shipping, confirm monitoring/rollback thinking, and support go-live communication.
- Support production issue triage for payments incidents (customer/business impact, ownership, communication) in partnership with engineering.
- Work within the team's existing SAFe Agile ceremonies (planning, standups, backlog refinement, retro).
- Experience as a Technical Product Owner / Product Owner on a software delivery team (Agile/SAFe), not just a business analyst or project coordinator.
- Demonstrated ability to create clear, testable acceptance criteria and break down features into right-sized stories.
- Comfortable discussing APIs, data flows, and system integrations with engineers - enough technical depth to ask the right questions and make scope tradeoffs, not necessarily hands-on coding.
- Experience owning a backlog for a service with real production usage (not just a greenfield project).
- Strong written and verbal communication - this role will need to translate between engineering and business/compliance stakeholders.
- Nice-to-have experience as a software engineer, architect, payment subject matter expert.
- Prior experience in payments, order management, e-commerce checkout, or financial transaction systems.
- Familiarity with event-driven/workflow-orchestration systems (e.g. Temporal, Kafka, Google Cloud Platform).
- Exposure to PCI, tokenization, or other payment-compliance considerations.
- Experience with retail/e-commerce order flows (pickup, delivery, marketplace/3rd-party fulfillment, subscriptions).
- Pure business analyst or project manager background with no backlog/acceptance-criteria ownership. This is a Technical Role.
- No prior experience partnering directly with engineers on technical discovery - purely requirements-gathering and status-reporting.
- Resume emphasizes "coordinated," "scheduled," "tracked status" over "defined," "owned," "prioritized," "decided."
- Dice Id: 10110651
- Position Id: a1Wcv0000017hfZEAQ
- Posted 2 hours ago
Company Info
Here at Brooksource, relationships are at the center of everything we do. Since 2000, we have established and maintained long-lasting relationships with our clients and consultants to create an unparalleled experience. Brooksource is a trusted services provider that specializes in delivering Engineering and IT solutions for Fortune 500 organizations through Experience-Driven Staffing, Professional Services, and Elevate, our Workforce Transformation program. As a certified partner for Salesforce, AWS, Microsoft, Google Cloud, and many other technology alliances, we are looking for professionals who want to be on the frontline of the latest trends in the industry.
We offer contract, contract-to-hire, and direct placement consultant opportunities, to provide a career path that can meet anyone's desires. The job search is hard, but you don’t have to do it alone! We know a successful partnership requires a good fit. Your personality, experience, and skill set are all important, contributing factors to that partnership. You can count on us to take the time to understand the type of technical and cultural fit that is right for you. As a Brooksource consultant, you will be provided with a comprehensive benefits plan, competitive compensation, and even paid time off!
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Benefits & Perks:
Brooksource offers competitive medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Dependent Care FSA, and supplemental coverage with plans that can fit each employee’s needs. We offer a 401k plan that includes a company match and is fully vested after you become eligible, paid time off, sick time, and paid company holidays. We also offer an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) that provides services like virtual counseling, financial services, legal services, life coaching, etc.
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The pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.
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