Product Owner -CSP0/CBAP

If you are a self-confident, self-motivated person with a strong work ethic and excellent communication skills, and you enjoy a fast-paced, team-driven environment, contact us today!

Working with one of the top financial clients, this role calls for a Product Owner -CSP0/CBAP who will provide user story design, development and completion oversight; accepting / rejecting user stories based on the agreed upon Definition of Done and Acceptance Criteria.

Responsibilities:

Partner with management to support the delivery of a product vision
In alignment with the product vision, create and maintain a product backlog and continuously re-prioritize user stories that will provide the most customer or end user value
Continuously align with senior management on the product delivery roadmap, defined Minimum Marketable Features or Minimum Viable Products and release cadence
Review performance analytics; recommend and champion strategies to enhance the customer or end user product experience
Participate in scrum or Kanban events (e.g. stand-ups, retrospectives), express new ideas for improving product value or delivery efficiency, sharing with leadership as appropriate
Proactively engage established business process partners to ensure customers or end users are prepared for application changes and establish Day 2 processes
Create a value-focused product backlog and continuously iterate, ensuring there are user stories scoped and prioritized
Manage delivery initiatives and oversee development team (pod) backlogs
Proactively raise issues that impede the efficient delivery of customer-focused increments
Responsible for defect management and prioritization
Adhere to enterprise frameworks or methodologies that relate to activities for own business area / journey
Ensure on-going strategic alignment with senior management, providing feedback as appropriate
Consider development team and stakeholder feedback in backlog management, facilitating conversations with multiple stakeholders representing competing priorities
Understand the internal business and technical environment, proactively defining, aligning or integrating with relevant stakeholders, shared services control groups (or platform as appropriate
Lead the submission and discussion on the Quarterly Business Review, with respect to their product
Proactively manage business stakeholders to obtain inputs needed for product development in a timely manner
Monitor the regulatory environment and partner with the senior management to consider changes to product strategy as needed
Actively coordinate and engage in risk, quality and/or business testing management
Empowered to make product delivery decisions, escalating to senior management as appropriate
Actively communicate to business, technology and senior management regarding product changes and backlog priorities
Single point of escalation for development team, providing guidance and decisioning as needed
Work cohesively with peers to reinforce Agile processes
Compile performance metrics and share with relevant stakeholders

Desired Skill Set:

3 years of experience as a product owner to lead an Agile Delivery POD
3 years of experience with JIRA
Hands-on experience with Microsoft Visio and Powerpoint
Excellent business process mapping skills
Experience with detailed Business requirements
Nice To Have:

SAFe Certification
Understanding of Project Delivery Life Cycle (PDLC)
Project experience
Previous banking experience