Product Owner (remote)

Job Location: Remote

Employment Type: Contract

Pay rate - $54/hr on W2

Skills/Attributes: HRIS, Product Owner, Workday

Position Description:

SUMMARY

We are seeking a technically fluent Product Owner to drive the implementation of our HRIS Integration Platform. This role collaborates with IT Product Managers, Architecture, Engineering leads, and Business stakeholders to translate strategic goals into executable workstreams. The Product Owner ensures integration capabilities are delivered in alignment with enterprise priorities, technical feasibility, and data governance standards.

NON-NEGOTIABLE QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum 5 years of experience in product ownership or enterprise application integration

• Proven experience writing technical stories for:

o Java-based APIs

o Kafka streaming

o Data transformation pipelines

• Strong understanding of data lineage across ingestion, transformation, and consumption layers

• Experience working in an Agile delivery environment

• Familiarity with HRIS platforms such as Workday, ADP, or Alight

• Experience with cloud-native environments (AWS, Azure) and platforms like Fineos

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Refine and implement product vision through actionable backlog items

• Author and manage detailed user stories for API development and streaming workflows

• Ensure technical feasibility and alignment with platform architecture and data lineage

• Document data lineage across processing steps for traceability and compliance

• Facilitate sprint planning, backlog grooming, and demos

• Coordinate cross-team dependencies across Agile Release Trains (ARTs)

• Partner with external vendors and internal stakeholders for onboarding and integrations

• Participate in release activities as needed