Product Owner

Genesis10 is currently seeking a Product Owner for a hybrid position (3 days onsite per week) with a Global Financial Institution located in Charlotte, NC. This is a 12+ month contract opportunity.

The selected candidate will join an Agile Scrum Team focused on Financial Center Technology initiatives. This role is responsible for capturing and supporting the delivery of business and system requirements, decomposing Epics into user stories, and managing the product backlog to accomplish business goals.

Responsibilities:

• Understand both business requirements and the basic tenets of the technical solution, helping to translate needs between both sets of stakeholders
• Decompose Epics into digestible user stories, define acceptance criteria, prioritize stories, and lead backlog refinement with the team
• Ensure user stories meet the Definition of Ready before work begins and meet the Definition of Done before acceptance
• Leverage various techniques to assist with the creation of Epics and stories such as process flow diagrams, context diagrams, and use cases
• Apply structural analysis to create workflow diagrams, data flows, business use cases, and data management plans
• Collaborate with Product Managers, stakeholders, and peer Analysts to ensure alignment of work
• Partner with QA to define test scenarios, validate outcomes, and ensure high-quality delivery that meets both functional and non-functional requirements
• Remove team impediments and participate in scrum team/train routines

Requirements:

• 3+ years of experience as a Product Owner
• Highly proficient in Jira
• Experience working with scrum and kanban teams in a Scaled Agile environment
• Experience defining user and technical stories, writing acceptance criteria, and leading backlog refinement conversations
• Experience employing various analysis techniques
• Experience working with LOB product managers and System Architects to write Epics and decompose them into stories
• Recent experience (within the last 3 years) in a similar large, enterprise environment

Desired skills:

• Understanding of Financial Center transaction processing

Pay range: $51.37 - $59.37 per hour

Only candidates available and ready to work directly as Genesis10 employees will be considered for this position.

If you have the described qualifications and are interested in this exciting opportunity, please apply!

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For contract roles, Genesis10 offers the benefits listed below. If this is a perm-placement opportunity, our recruiter can talk you through the unique benefits offered for that particular client. Benefits of Working with Genesis10:

• Access to hundreds of clients, most who have been working with Genesis10 for 5-20+ years.
• The opportunity to have a career-home in Genesis10; many of our consultants have been working exclusively with Genesis10 for years.
• Access to an experienced, caring recruiting team (more than 7 years of experience, on average.)
• Behavioral Health Platform
• Medical, Dental, Vision
• Health Savings Account
• Voluntary Hospital Indemnity (Critical Illness & Accident)
• Voluntary Term Life Insurance
• 401K
• Sick Pay (for applicable states/municipalities)
• Commuter Benefits (Dallas, NYC, SF, and Illinois)

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