Product Owner

eFront Platform Owner owns the technical aspects of clients eFront systems, including platform roadmaps, vendor relationship management, alignment to business strategy and product, SLAs and platform support capabilities. They maintain close relationships with business Product and Portfolio Product Owners and system users, develop deep system expertise, and drive value creation by enabling solutions that further business outcomes, key results and measures of success.
Requirements

• Develops deep platform expertise and partners with vendors to understand and influence platform strategy and direction
• Builds relationships with Product Owners and end users and develops understanding of business strategy, needs, priority
• Synthesizes business needs and platform strategy and capability to inform platform roadmap, prioritization with aligned Product Teams; influences roadmaps for aligned Products
• Partners with vendors to develop metrics to measure SLAs, functionality usage and adoption
• Keeps current with evolving technologies and vendor platforms; drives periodic formal assessments of platform landscape and analysis of current platform fit for purpose
• Accountable for understanding user needs across business units, connection points, relative priority and overall business value measurement
• Builds strong partnerships with Engineering Managers to enable technology efficiencies around data, system functionality, technology infrastructure
• Accountable to senior leadership for overall health, alignment, usage, resiliency of platforms
• Drives platform guilds; leads and/or participates in user community groups across industry
• Advanced knowledge of Investment systems and prior experience with eFront and related IBOR/ABOR ecosystems strongly preferred

Qualifications

• Advanced knowledge of Investment systems and prior experience with eFront and related IBOR/ABOR ecosystems strongly preferred
• Advanced knowledge of Agile development methodologies as typically acquired through a Bachelor`s degree in relevant field (business, computer science, humanities etc) and a minimum of 10 years direct experience with Agile teams as well as 7 years in business, technology, or consulting
• Master`s degree preferred
• High level of proven business expertise needed to set clear priorities for product and understand business value impacts
• Develops strong stakeholder relationships and influencing across multiple organizational boundaries
• Demonstrated experience leading varied audiences through the development of complex ideas, issues and designs
• Ability to lead varied audiences through census building
• Technical proficiency required to participate in sprint planning and have an informed, independent voice
• Strong influencing skills