API Product Owner - Raleigh, Charlotte, Atlanta

Job#: 3035405

Job Description:

Required: Product Owner for API Integration Work, Banking

Plus: Single-Sign-On Project Experience

Position: Agile Product Owner

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

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

Duration: up to 18 months

Type: W2 contract, paid hourly

W2 Contract Pay: $80-95/hr; negotiable based on experience

Responsibilities:

This role is a Product Owner in the Scaled Agile Framework who partners with product managers to balance business, technology and design priorities to deliver brand-defining product and service experiences. The position requires the ability to understand strategic impacts but concentrates on the day-to-day details in order to ensure tactical execution. NOTE: In some Agile teams, there may be Product Owners from both the Business and the Tech side. In that case, the role will remain the same and there is joint accountability for the Agile team's results. In rare instances, where the business cannot provide a PO, a Tech PO could step in to fulfill the responsibilities.

The Product Owner is responsible for executing the strategy for their area of responsibility based on client and company needs, which can include client experience, back office processes or systemic processes outside the client journey. They are a key resource in backlog management for the teams. The Product Owner works hand-in-hand with Product Managers to translate the product vision into epics and features that can be actioned by the delivery teams. The work will span the entire delivery process; from assisting with identification of areas for improvement, to more detailed work in authoring user stories, working closely with technical leads/scrum teams to ensure the solution effectively addresses experience priorities while maintaining technical integrity, and overseeing tactical execution of efforts.

Taking a holistic perspective, this position is responsible for delivering the experience across all related pieces within their assigned area of responsibility.

Must Have:

Product Owner experience

API Integrations

Banking

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 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:

Single Sign On development

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

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

3. Experience working with Adobe Experience Manager

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