Product Owner : Data and Anlytics

The Product Owner is the member of the Agile Team responsible for defining Stories and prioritizing the Team Backlog to streamline the execution of program priorities while maintaining the conceptual and technical integrity of the Features or components for the team. Take a significant role in quality control and is the only team member empowered to accept stories as done. Has significant relationships and responsibilities outside the local team, including working with Product Management, who is responsible for the Program Backlog, to prepare for the Program Increment (PI) Planning meeting.

Work you will do

As a Product Owner, you'll be responsible for managing the product backlog for a product, prioritizing requirements, define and manage scope and sprints for a project. You'll also be tasked with:

Provide operational support to practitioners and firm clients. Engages with various ITS organizations to resolve problems as they arise.

Communicate with internal colleagues to understand the needs of clients and teams.

Collaborate with System and Solution Architect/Engineering to assist with decision-making and sequencing of the key technological infrastructures that will host the new business functionality.

Create documentation including requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, feature description PowerPoint decks, user guides, process flows, wireframes, and newsletters.

Responsible for product quality, project timeliness, and customer satisfaction.

Assist with leading, directing, and reviewing all activities associated with delivering technology products.

Ability to work with solutions, technologies, and development teams.

Contribute to vision and program backlog. Makes decisions regarding the team backlog and implementation.

Define the iterations and stories. Accepts iteration increments.

Drive iteration goals and iteration content via prioritized stories.

Establish story acceptance criteria, accepts stories into the baseline.

Coordinate dependencies with other team's POs when needed.

Participate in producing the System Demo for program stakeholders.

Work across Agile Teams to define and implement improvement stories that will increase the velocity and quality of the program.

Education:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business Administration or equivalent educational or professional experience and/or qualifications. An advanced degree is also preferred.

Qualifications:

Minimum of 5 years of in-depth experience in SDLC, solutions design, and delivery of enterprise level solutions. Experience managing Agile/Scrum projects a plus.

2-4 years of relevant work experience in a leadership role.

SAFe Product Owner / Product Manager (POPM) or other Scaled Agile certifications is a plus.

Technical experience in Microsoft .NET or SAP application development is a plus.

Must have strong analytical abilities, negotiation/presentation skills, and organizational/planning abilities.

Strong leadership and management skills.

Collaboration and decision-making skills.

Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Ability to drive teams to meet consensus and have vivid passion for applications delivery.

Strong project management and team management skills.

Experience interfacing with external software design and development vendors preferred.

Experience working directly with clients and providing consultation.

Experience managing both internal teams and offshore vendor teams project delivery, plans, and ensure proper staffing.

Creative - able to think outside the box; uses knowledge gained through prior experience, education, and training to resolve issues and remove project barriers.

Drive for results - maintains constant awareness of projects and clients; keeps product owners focused on short- and long-term milestones.

Ability to establish and maintain positive working relationships with customers yet represent accurately the perspective of Technology.

Ability to work productively with all levels in a large organization.

Proven expertise in managing the delivery of mid-to-large web/enterprise applications needed.

Ability to understand and relate to the business objectives and provide a high-quality automated solution.

Ability to adjust communications to both technical and non-technical audiences.