Product Owner [T500-20436]

ANSR is hiring for one of its clients.

About T-Mobile:

T-Mobile US, Inc. (NASDAQ: TMUS), headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, is America’s supercharged Un-carrier, connecting millions through its strong nationwide network and flagship brands, T-Mobile and Metro by T-Mobile. Customers benefit from an unmatched combination of value, quality, and exceptional service experience.

About TMUS Global Solutions:

TMUS Global Solutions is a world-class technology powerhouse accelerating the company’s global digital transformation. With a culture built on growth, inclusivity, and global collaboration, the teams here drive innovation at scale, powered by bold thinking.

TMUS India Private Limited is a subsidiary of T-Mobile US, Inc. and operates as TMUS Global Solutions.

About the Role:

Product Owner (PO) is a member of the extended Technical Product Management team and crucial member of the Agile Team. PO owns the Team / Sprint backlog representing the single source of truth and is the single point of contact to the Dev team and Customer team for user story details. PO is responsible for defining and refining user stories and prioritizing the Agile Team backlog to streamline execution of product (program) priorities while maintaining conceptual and technical integrity of features for the team.

In this capacity the PO remains highly available to the Dev teams during each iteration (sprint) in order to answer real time questions and provide clarity to user stories. PO also drives user story refinement activities ensuring Team backlog contains 2 iterations worth of 'ready' work for Dev team. These two functions are critical to enabling Dev teams to improve and maintain high velocity / productivity in iteration (sprint) execution. For this reason, a PO supports a single Agile (Scrum) Team up to a maximum of 2 teams.

PO also has a significant role in quality control and is the only team member empowered to accept stories as done, ensuring the acceptance criteria has been met. This role has significant relationships and responsibilities outside their specific Agile team, including working with Technical Product Management, who is responsible for the Product (Program/Portfolio/Platform) Backlog, to prepare for the Program Increment (PI) Planning meeting (Big Room Planning).

What You will Do:

Business and Technical Execution:

• Develop deep understanding of customer/user experience at a tactical and transactional level
• Build and maintain Agile (Scrum / Sprint) team backlog
• Write and refine user stories and requirements including acceptance criteria and tests
• Review and prioritize team backlog for iteration planning
• Coordinate and resolve dependencies with other Product Owners, domain POCs, UI/UX
• Review and assess enabler work and collaborate with System Architects
• Accept completed user stories, ensuring they meet the Definition of Done
• Serve as single point of contact for technical and customer/user teams during sprints
• Maintain 2 sprints of ready work via ongoing story elaboration
• Participate in demos, retrospectives, and Inspect & Adapt workshops
• Manage and groom testable, production-quality user stories
• Support PI planning and PI system demo execution
• Drive improvement stories to increase velocity and quality
• Run PO sync meetings in larger scaled ARTs
• Support Technical Product Manager with product vision and roadmap
• Collaborate with Scrum Master to prioritize the Scrum backlog to maximize throughput of a sprint.
• Create and review L3 diagrams, Swaggers, API documentation for system integrations.
• Drive Low Level Design /Domain Level Design for platform features
• Review Test Cases and support testing teams during domain/system and night of release
• Conduct Platform Level Demos with Stakeholders
• Participate and Drive, Release Activities during Night/Day of Release

Relationship & People, Professional Development:

• Build strong working relationships with internal stakeholders and customers/users
• Work collaboratively across technical and teams
• Develop Platform specific training material/user manuals and educate stakeholders
• Develop Agile training material and educate stakeholders
• Contribute to Product Owner Community of Practice (COP) and Scrum Master Community of Practice

What You will Bring:

• Bachelor's Degree (required)
• 4+ years of experience in Product Management, Product Owner, Business Analyst, System Analyst, or similar roles in Agile software development
• Strong technical writing and requirements elicitation skills
• Experience with Agile tools and methodologies
• Experience with LucidChart, PlantUML, Visio, Jira, Confluence
• Ability to clearly communicate with both technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience with writing and elaborating Features and User Stories
• Strong analytical skills and data-driven decision-making
• Scrum Product Owner certification (CSPO) – preferred

Must Have Skills:

• Relevant Product Management, Product Owner, Business Analyst, and System Analyst or Architecture/Software Engineer experience in an agile software product development environment.

Nice To Have:

• Experience with JSON, API Swaggers and L1/L2/L3 diagrams