Technical Product Owner

Technical Product Owner

This role is with Financial Services Software Engineering and with the key strategic Interactive Services solution including the industry leading Interactive Teller.

The technical product owner is responsible for maximizing product value and the work of the development teams.

Client uses scaled agile development methods, primarily based on Scrum and SAFe.

The Technical PO will help continually improve these methods and processes.

The Technical PO will work with Product Management, Professional Services, Sales, Marketing, and Customer Support to drive new features to market and improve existing products.

The Technical PO will have working knowledge and experience in an agile team environment, will develop stories, and will establish Backlog priorities while introducing new solutions.

Drive product enhancements that increase customer value and grow revenue

Work with product manager to define, develop, and refine requirements of a complex software product and manage them in the product Roadmap and Backlogs

Define, clarify, and prioritize user stories; working with product manager and development teams to understand use cases, features, business and technical domain rules and product goals

Collaborate with the scrum masters to run successful PI Planning, Sprint Planning, Release Planning and Reviews

Collaborate with development teams to produce technically focused user stories and engineering tasks to ensure accuracy and feasibility

Understand and advocate best practices in high-level system designs

Collaboration with Architecture to advance product goals

Collaboration and coordination with other product teams with interdependencies

Input to the strategic vision for the product

Work with field marketing teams to understand regional regulations that impact the software and product requirements

Clearly express Product Backlog items, definition, grooming, refinement, and prioritize to best achieve business goals

Ensure the Product Backlog is visible, transparent, clear to everyone, and shows what the Development Team will work on next

Ensure Development Team properly understands items in Backlog

Attend customer calls/meetings to listen to customer requirements and advise the customer on product features and strategic direction of the roadmap

Present and demonstrate the solution to external groups and customers such as in the Customer Briefing Center

Be aware of Client PS and WCS processes and practices and interface with these teams to guide and advise on products and solutions

Provide technical input and estimates for RFIs and RFPs

Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Business Management, Marketing, or related discipline (Master's degree preferred)

9+ years' of directly related software product management and software engineering experience

Demonstrated ability to navigate organizational dynamics of a large organization

Ability to listen, learn and aggregate multiple data inputs and analyze best use for purposes of establishing prioritization

Experience in a software development environment

Terrific and demonstrated problem solving skills

Very Strong oral and written communication skills

Working knowledge and experience with financial services, banking, and/or teller systems

Financial industry experience

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.