Job#: 3033048 Job Description: Agile Product Owner
Location: Charlotte, North Carolina (Partial Remote)
Employment Type: Contract
Role Overview
An opportunity is available for a Product Owner to support a new initiative. This individual will be responsible for driving development efforts from a product perspective, ensuring that work is well-organized, prioritized, and aligned with business needs. The role involves representing business stakeholders to elicit, understand, analyze, and communicate business requirements for the delivery team.
Key Responsibilities
- Own and manage product workstreams for a new banking initiative.
- Organize and guide development efforts from a product ownership standpoint.
- Partner closely with development teams and stakeholders to ensure clarity of requirements.
- Translate business needs into actionable product direction and create prioritized stories.
- Support Agile delivery and product lifecycle execution.
- Serve as the day-to-day decision-maker and provide continual business guidance for an Agile team.
- Work with management to understand and validate business strategy and customer needs.
- Facilitate user acceptance testing prior to the release of application updates.
Required Qualifications
Experience: Approximately 5 years of experience in a Product Owner or Product Manager role with a strong background in product management and business analysis. Proven experience driving projects from a product perspective and organizing development efforts is required. Experience working in Agile environments is highly preferred.
Preferred Qualifications
- SAFe Practitioner (SP), SAFe Agilist, or SAFe Product Owner/Manager certification.
- Experience with Jira or other SDLC/SPLC platforms.
Compensation
Pay Rate: $60.00/hr - $70.00/hr
This employer is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
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Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth 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. Everforth Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click for more details.
Everforth Apex Benefits Overview: Everforth 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. Everforth 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, Everforth 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. Everforth 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 Everforth Apex team member can provide.
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