Solution Owner

THE ROLE

Job Summary:

Solution Owner

Job Responsibilities:

Solution Owners at Presidio take ownership of the success of the project and meeting the customers expectations. Responsibilities include:

DISCOVERY & PLANNING:

• Develop and execute product roadmap with clear vision and strategy
• Conduct stakeholder interviews, workshops, requirements gathering and use case definition sessions
• Identify project scope, success criteria, and metrics
• Research market trends and business changes that impact strategy
• Create release plans and set delivery expectations
• Well versed with tools such as Miro / Lucid / Visio

REQUIREMENTS & ANALYSIS

• Elicit and document business needs and stakeholder requirements
• Analyze requirements for completeness, consistency, and feasibility
• Translate business requirements into technical specifications, in consultation with architects and engineers
• Create epics and user stories for development team in platforms such as JIRA
• Conduct peer reviews of requirements with stakeholders
• Develop acceptance criteria for features

DELIVERY & EXECUTION

• Prioritize and maintain sprint backlog
• Guide team implementation of features and functionality
• Track requirements status throughout project lifecycle
• Manage requirement changes meticulously and obtain timely stakeholder approvals
• Mitigate impediments to sprint goal completion
• Ensure delivered features meet customer requirements

STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT

• Partner with stakeholders to communicate product vision
• Manage expectations across internal and external stakeholders
• Balance competing demands from different stakeholders
• Facilitate effective communication between business and technical teams
• Integrate smoothly with client culture and team dynamics

LEADERSHIP QUALITIES

• Strong facilitation and workshop leadership skills
• Experience with onshore/offshore development teams
• Expertise in Agile best practices and mentoring
• Ability to resolve conflicts and prioritize competing demands
• Passion for delivering quality products that meet customer needs
• Proven ability to build trust and influence across organizations

Required Skills:

• Critical thinkers and problem solvers with the vision to bring people, process and technology together effectively, to deliver technology solutions. Outstanding presentation and leadership skills with ability to engage, influence and inspire partners and stakeholders to drive collaboration and alignment
• Excellent client-facing communication skills both written and oral, along with strong listening, interpersonal and relationship building skills. Ability to craft and deliver succinct messages backed by supporting evidence, calibrated to the needs of executive audiences
• Proven experience with business and technical requirements analysis, elicitation, modeling, verification, and methodology development
• Demonstrable skills across development methodologies (Agile, SCRUM, Kanban, Waterfall)
• Proficient in Confluence, Jira or other similar tools
• Experience with Cloud service providers/ Microsoft O365 suite of tools
• Excellent organizational and time management skills with attention details
  

Additional Desired Skills:

• Strong thought leadership, team building, motivational and customer service skills
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks while under pressure
• Highly self-motivated and directed, a self-starter
• Put business needs before technology. Ask great questions. Always think ahead. Turn data into useful information. Passion to deliver results and exceed expectations
• Ability to learn quickly, adapt to change and have ownership of learning new tools as applicable to help in the requirements gathering, refinement and management process
• Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
• Works as a team player, willing to perform other tasks as needed to help the team, even if not part of their defined role and responsibilities
• Passion, creativity, energy, and enthusiasm towards collaborating on the exciting growth and development of our customers and our company
• Adaptability to our overall vision, goals and dynamic culture and environment.

Education and Experience:

• B.E or B Tech in Computer Science, Engineering, or similar relevant field
• Career paths rooted in business/technical analysis, application/ data/ Cloud engineering disciplines with an awareness of recent advancements in AI/ML
• A minimum of 7+ years of experience in a client – facing role such as Product Owner role, Senior Business Analyst, technical lead
• Prior consulting experience at top tier consulting firms OR experience owning a consulting firm desired.