Product Owner - Digital Banking

Job#: 3032158

Job Description:

Position: Product Owner - Digital Banking

Required: Digital Banking, SAFe

Location: Charlotte, NC

On-Site Requirement: 5 days/week on-site

Duration: 18 months

Type: W2 contract, paid hourly

W2 Contract Pay: $65-74/hr

Responsibilities:

1. Lead their delivery team's priorities in PI planning, sprint planning, and other agile ceremonies; aligned to larger experience platform priorities and vision defined by product management.

2. Align with product managers to clearly articulate product strategy to the delivery team.

3. Deliver new experiences by working directly with delivery, experience design, business, and operations partners to design new products and improvements to existing capabilities.

4. Author and maintain the team's backlog of user stories and serve as a subject matter expert on features, user stories, and product capabilities.

5. Perform triage on critical issues and communicate consistently and clearly with all concerned parties.

6. Serve as key resource to development team to answer questions, provide clarifications, and conduct and coordinate business validation, focusing on fitness for use.

7. Update leadership on the epic and feature delivery schedule, including dependencies impacting deliverables, along with recommended solutions.

8. Partner with solution architects and other technical leads to ensure their solutions effectively address program priorities while balancing client experience and technical integrity.

9. Facilitate sprint planning with stakeholder groups to drive alignment and visibility for which features will be built when, and to ensure overall adherence to the product roadmap and enterprise strategic themes.

10. Facilitate sprint demos and provide final acceptance for completed user stories in sprint demos; ensuring that the story meets acceptance criteria and otherwise meets its definition of done.

11. Co-ordinate the creation of release-specific business documents, such as support model definitions, go/no-go approvals, internal release notes, and release-related living documents.

12. Risk management: Ensure all Product Management Lifecycle (PML) process & procedures are followed, supporting security, risk, audit, and more, and ensure action items and deadlines are met. Partner with product manager on evidence to support recommendations.

Must Haves:

1. Bachelors' degree in business, engineering, design, or technology field; or related field or equivalent combination of education and professional experience

2. Three or more years working in digital banking

3. Three or more years as a Product Owner using SAFe Agile Framework

4. Three or more years of leading cross functional teams

5. Experience defining and delivering digital business initiatives to execute on a product roadmap

6. Demonstrated technical acumen and an ability to work with the technology organization to align product and technology roadmaps

7. Ability to translate strategic plans into tactical daily actions for execution

8. Ability to lead cross-functional teams without formal authority

9. Comfortable managing concurrent projects in a fast-based, results-driven environment

10. Comfortable with ambiguity, leading work autonomously, and making independent decisions

11. Strong analytical skills, ability to interpret data and trends, diagnose problems, and recommend action plans to resolve issues

12. Excellent skills in presentation, facilitation, communication, and negotiation

Preferred Qualifications:

1. Experience working with distributed teams (onshore/offshore)

2. Certified SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager (or equivalent)

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