Product Owner/mockups/CPSO; JC, TX

Genesis10 is currently seeking a Sr Product Owner with our client in the financial industry located in Jersey City, NJ and Addison, TX. This is a 12+ month contract position.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with Scrum Master, Delivery Lead, and Feature Lead to drive sprint and release plans
• Manage a portfolio of data and frontend products in the Client Data, Analytics and CRM space for Markets
• Take ownership and is accountable for driving work forward
• Main point of contact for business stakeholders as well as product and technology partners
• Create an ambitious and clear product vision, and get buy-in from business and technology partners for the same
• Own the end-to-end product strategy and roadmap, and ensure that both align with long term business and product goals as well as dependent products and teams
• Drive quarterly planning as well as sprint planning, making sure that the team has 1-2 sprints of stories planned out in advance
• Overcommunicate up keep portfolio product manager, horizontal product lead, and development manager informed about high level risks, issues, and upcoming priorities
• Write executive release notes, briefly communicating what the team will deliver, and the impact and value of the release from a business point of view
• Continuously set expectations with business and technology partners, making sure that everyone is informed and aligned
• Collaborate with upstream and downstream teams, keeping track of and communicating dependencies, progress, and timelines
• Passionate about working with large-scale datasets, or data platforms and analytics
• Translate business requirements into technical specifications
• Collaborate with other development teams to manage interdependency, set up test cases, debug and maintain data quality
• Ensure software stability via documentation, code reviews, regression, unit and user acceptance testing
• Support cost/benefit analysis to align tech solutions with business strategy
• Participate and guide team in estimating work is necessary to realize a story/requirement through the delivery lifecycle
• Perform spike/proof of concept as necessary to mitigate risk or implement new ideas
• Code solutions and unit test to deliver a requirement/story per the defined acceptance criteria and compliance requirements
• Utilize multiple architectural components (across data, application, business) in design and development of client requirements
• Assist team with resolving technical complexities involved in realizing story work
• Contribute to existing test suites, analyze test reports, identify any test issues/errors, and triage the underlying cause
• Document and communicate required information for deployment, maintenance, support, and business functionality
• Develop an understanding of stakeholders needs to help create a solution, envisions the solution to solve a problem (manual or through software)
• Analyze the stakeholder process to build efficiencies and also analyzes the software to improve or implement that process
• Gather and catalog functional, non-functional, and technical requirements for stakeholder requests
• Analyze functional and data requirements
• Assist users and development team with application testing and troubleshooting
• Identify, document and troubleshoot application related problems
• Document process, procedures and workflows associated with applications
• Create and maintain training materials for end-users

Requirements:

• 10+ year's experience in Agile methodology and a deep understanding of various phases of the Software Development Life Cycle; preferably in Business Analyst / Product Owner role
• Aggressive communicator
• Critical thinker (or analytical/technically fluent)
• Ability to create EPICs, user stories, wireframes, mockups, and basic diagrams to convey ideas
• Ability to create user journeys, user stories, wireframes, mockups, & basic diagrams to convey ideas
• Understanding of business process redesign concepts and process improvement techniques
• Understanding and experience with technical solutions and components (APIs, Middleware, Services, SQL)
• Communicate clearly & effectively with technology/development and business partners ability to translate between these 2 constituencies
• Excellent written communication skills and excellent communication skills and client presence
• Experience using tools like Rally and JIRA for Agile projects
• Certification in Agile Scrum; specifically Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) and/or Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and/or Certified Product Owner
• Experience with large data sets using big data solutions such as Hadoop, Spark, etc.
• Ability to get things done and make things happen; a person who is resourceful, seizes opportunities and is an innovator
• Demonstrate exceptional analytical skills and problem solving skills; excellent organizational skills
• Deeply knowledgeable yet also eternally curious about data infrastructure, pipelines and ETL processes
• Some understanding of data warehousing concepts

Pay range: $70.13 - $78.13

Only candidates available and ready to work directly as Genesis10 employees will be considered for this position.

If you have the described qualifications and are interested in this exciting opportunity, please apply!

About Genesis10:
Ranked a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S. by Staffing Industry Analysts for six consecutive years, Genesis10 puts thousands of consultants and employees to work across the United States every year in contract, contract-for-hire, and permanent placement roles. With more than 300 active clients, Genesis10 provides access to many of the Fortune 100 firms and a variety of mid-market organizations across the full spectrum of industry verticals.

For contract roles, Genesis10 offers the benefits listed below. If this is a perm-placement opportunity, our recruiter can talk you through the unique benefits offered for that particular client. Benefits of Working with Genesis10:

• Access to hundreds of clients, most who have been working with Genesis10 for 5-20+ years.
• The opportunity to have a career-home in Genesis10; many of our consultants have been working exclusively with Genesis10 for years.
• Access to an experienced, caring recruiting team (more than 7 years of experience, on average.)
• Behavioral Health Platform
• Medical, Dental, Vision
• Health Savings Account
• Voluntary Hospital Indemnity (Critical Illness & Accident)
• Voluntary Term Life Insurance
• 401K
• Sick Pay (for applicable states/municipalities)
• Commuter Benefits (Dallas, NYC, SF and Illinois)

For multiple years running, Genesis10 has been recognized as a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S., as a Best Company for Work-Life Balance, as a Best Company for Career Growth, for Diversity, and for Leadership, amongst others. To learn more and to view all our available career opportunities, please visit us at our website.

Genesis10 is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.