Product Owner

Job#: 3021234

Job Description:

Sr. Product Owner - SSO

Large Banking Client

Duration: 12+ months

Location: Charlotte, NC / Raleigh, NC / Atlanta, GA

Onsite - 5 days a week.

Overview:

This team works on a centralized commercial banking portal that gives business clients access to all their treasury and financial services through one single sign-on (SSO).
What the team is working on:

• Single Sign-On (SSO):
• You'll help support and enhance how users log into OneView and access multiple applications through one secure portal.
• API Connectivity:
• The work includes reviewing how different applications connect through APIs, verifying endpoints, and making sure the integrations function correctly.
• Online Banking Enhancements:
• The team is improving parts of the online banking experience within the platform.
• Future Modules:
• After SSO and online banking enhancements, the platform will expand to include:
  • Portfolio investment tools
  • Merchant processing services

Role Responsibilities:

Following is a summary of the essential functions for this job. Other duties may be performed, both major and minor, which are not mentioned below. Specific activities may change from time to time.

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

2. 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

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. Coordinate 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: As needed, ensure all Product Management Lifecycle (PML) process & procedures are followed, supporting security, risk, audit, and more, and ensure action items and deadlines are met.

Must Have Skills/Prior Experiences:

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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

2. Five or more years of banking, financial services, digital, or other relevant work experience

3. Three or more years of product, analysis, technology, and/or design experience

4. Three or more years of leading cross functional teams

5. Experience defining and delivering 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-paced, 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

PlNice to Have Skills/Prior Experiences:

1. 5+ years experience working as a Product Manager/Owner working with agile teams developing banking or financial services software

2. Master's degree in business, engineering, design, or technology field; banking or financial management education

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

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

5. Experience with commercial payments, treasury management, and/or wholesale banking

6. First hand experience with payables automation services

Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico. Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click for more details.

Apex Benefits Overview: Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Apex team member can provide.