Investment IT Product Owner

About the job Investment IT Product Owner

Investment IT Product Owner needs 6+ years of professional experience with leadership in technology, business analysis or business

Investment IT Product Owner requires:

• Must have knowledge of investments industry especially front office.
• Remote GA
• Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience in computer science, finance, business administration or related field. Graduate degree is a plus
• 6+ years of professional experience with leadership in technology, business analysis or business.
• 3+ years of product ownership experience
• Knowledge and experience of the Investment Management industry.
• Proven experience in a product owner role in an agile/scrum software development organization and understanding of the development lifecycle.
• Proven ability to manage multiple, concurrent work items with minimal supervision.
• Excellent decision-making ability to manage a complex ever changing priority list and resolve conflicts to competing priorities
• Value oriented
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, both verbal and written. Capable of collaborating effectively functional communication to technical stakeholders, technical communication to non-technical stakeholders)
• Strong analyst with a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements.
• Strong problem solver. Ability to identify where focus is needed and bring clarity to business objectives, requirements and priorities
• Business and Functional requirement knowledge (i.e. elicitation of requirements, planning, documentation, analysis and alignment to standards)
• Ability to embrace, adapt and lead through change, fosters effective partnerships and drive effective collaboration with peers and vendor resources.
• Act as a voice of the customers understand the business needs and translate them into technical requirements.
• Work with the business partners to define the future products and roadmap.
• Understand and articulate the technology vision and strategy, ensure that technology solution is successfully aligned with the business goals and priorities.
• Build a strong rapport with the investment teams, operations and information technology team members.
• Perform data-driven analysis and develop recommendations to guide decision making.
• Key member of the scrum team responsible for making sure that development processes align with the product roadmap.
• Manage the Product Backlog effectively to maximize the delivered value, including developing and clearly communicating sprint goals and priorities; creating and clearly communicating product backlog items; ensuring that the product backlog is transparent, visible and understood
• Define user stories based on customer requirements. Translate business needs into requirements for a technical audience, including creating user stories, synthesizing use cases, defining acceptance criteria, documenting features overview.
• Coordinate and assist in the testing of new products and features