Senior Digital Product Owner

Title: Senior Digital Product Owner

Location: Fort Worth, TX

Duration: Contract

Work Requirements: U.S. Citizen, GC Holders, or Authorized to Work in the U.S.

Job Summary: The Senior Digital Product Owner is accountable for translating product strategy into executable work for the solution delivery team(s) supporting Field Team Risk Management (FTRM) within Wealth Management & Banking. This role partners with the Product Manager and stakeholders to maintain a clear, outcome-focused backlog, write high-quality user stories with acceptance criteria, and ensure increments deliver measurable value for field advisors, field office staff, and Home Office teams that manage field identities, roles, hierarchy, access, compensation, and reporting while meeting quality, security, and compliance expectations.

The Senior Product Owner serves as the day-to-day decision-maker for scope and priority within the team backlog, enabling predictable delivery and rapid feedback loops. Operating independently, this role optimizes backlog health and sprint outcomes, leads bug triage and defect prevention, proactively manages dependencies, and drives clarity that reduces rework and improves delivery flow.

For FTRM, the role will guide delivery of a unified and reliable field data foundation, improved digital provisioning and access controls, stable advisor-data integrations, and the transition from legacy OAMT and FSA capabilities. The Product Owner will ensure technical increments remain aligned to approved business policies, operational processes, data-governance expectations, and measurable risk-reduction outcomes.

Duties & Responsibilities:

Requirements Analysis & Story Shaping

• Analyze business problems and customer needs; translate outcomes into functional and non-functional requirements and workflows.
• Partner with stakeholders, architecture, and engineering to clarify scope, constraints, sequencing, and integration/data impacts.
• Sets the standard for story quality and acceptance criteria.
• Coaches others on story craftsmanship and backlog discipline.

Backlog Management

• Own and continuously refine the team backlog aligned to the product roadmap; maintains sprint ready backlog through 3+ sprints.
• Independently decompose epics/features into clear, testable user stories with acceptance criteria (including edge cases) aligned to Definition of Ready/Done.
• Facilitate refinement to ensure priorities reflect value and risk, dependencies are visible, and carryover is minimized.
• Champion backlog standards and coach others on story craftsmanship and acceptance criteria.

Continuous Value Delivery

• Provide rapid clarification and feedback during development and testing to sustain flow and reduce rework.
• Partner with QA/SDET/Test Leads to ensure test plans and cases trace to acceptance criteria and readiness signals are clear.
• Proactively manage cross-team dependencies related to the future field data system of record, down stream solutions, and related integrations; collaborate with the Dev Manager to unblock delivery and communicate impacts.
• Accountable for improving backlog quality and delivery discipline beyond their immediate team.

Triage & Acceptance

• Lead bug triage; prioritize defects by customer impact and risk, trend defects, and drive prevention actions with engineering and QA.
• Perform story-level acceptance by validating outcomes against acceptance criteria, business intent, and quality standards.

Scrum Collaboration

• Actively participate in agile ceremonies and partner with the Dev Manager to sustain healthy practices and predictable delivery.
• Communicate delivery expectations, scope tradeoffs, and decision rationale to stakeholders; serve as Scrum Master backup as needed.

Product & Domain Expectations

• Maintain deep knowledge of Field Team Risk Management (FTRM) journeys and non-functional requirements; ensure work aligns to applicable security, privacy, regulatory, and audit expectations.
• Own backlog clarity for the FTRM system enhancements workstream, including the field data system of record, digital provisioning workflows, access controls, Advisor API and downstream integrations, legacy-system replacement, and decommissioning activities.
• Translate approved field role definitions, hierarchy rules, provisioning policies, and client-data access controls into testable product requirements, business rules, workflows, and acceptance criteria.
• Partner with Business Policy & Process, Paraplanner Services, Compliance, Risk, Data Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, Cybersecurity, Advisor Operations, Financial Services, and Organizational Change Management stakeholders to align technical delivery with business-policy decisions and adoption readiness.
• Maintain end-to-end traceability across source data, business rules, access approvals, integrations, historical records, and downstream reporting for field people, places, roles, hierarchy, licensing, compensation, and recognition data.
• Plan for phased implementation and operational transition, including data migration, integration cutover, audit history, release readiness, and the retirement of OAMT, FSA, Advisor Directory, and applicable legacy WebLogic-based advisor-data integrations.

Tooling & Documentation

• Use Azure DevOps to manage stories, link work items, and maintain traceability; report delivery signals (throughput, carryover, defects).
• Maintain documentation (workflows, decision logs, release notes) that supports traceability and operational readiness.

Collaboration Model

• Partner with Product Management to align backlog priorities to roadmap outcomes and surface progress, risks, and options.
• Coordinate with adjacent Product Owner teams to manage shared standards and cross-team dependencies; support adoption readiness with business/ops partners.

Supervisory Responsibility

• No direct supervisory responsibility but must provide guidance to Agile teams and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders.

Skills & Qualifications:

Education

• Bachelor's degree required (may consider experience in lieu of degree)

Work Experience

• 4-7 years of experience in product management, business analysis, or a related field, or 4+ years of experience as an operations specialist within a relevant product domain.
• Preferred experience delivering complex data, identity and access management, provisioning, system-of-record, API/integration, or legacy modernization initiatives in a regulated financial-services environment.
• Preferred experience coordinating delivery across business policy, operational process, compliance/risk, data, architecture, engineering, QA, and change-management workstreams.

Certifications

• Certified Product Owner
• Agile and Scrum
• Identity and Access Management, Data Governance, API/Integration, or Salesforce/Azure technologies
• Process Improvement
• Financial Services Licenses

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Knowledge

• Scrum-based agile delivery and product ownership accountabilities; familiarity with scaled agile concepts.
• Backlog management methods (Definition of Ready/Done, prioritization, decomposition) and techniques for minimizing carryover.
• Quality practices including acceptance criteria design, test planning, defect management, and release readiness.
• Digital delivery fundamentals: UX patterns, APIs/integrations, data flows, and non-functional requirements (performance, security, accessibility).
• Working knowledge of regulated environments (controls, auditability, data privacy) relevant to Wealth Management & Banking.
• Strong working knowledge of the system of record concepts and related integrations and integration patterns to anticipate impacts and edge cases.
• Identity lifecycle and access governance, including request, approval, provisioning, role change, leave, termination, least-privilege access, and auditable history.
• Master-data and data-governance concepts for people, office locations, roles, reporting hierarchies, licenses, certifications, and historical records.
• Enterprise data migration and integration practices, including API contracts, source-to-target mapping, reconciliation, downstream impact analysis, phased cutover, and legacy decommissioning.

Skills

• Story craftsmanship: write clear, testable stories and acceptance criteria that reduce ambiguity and rework.
• Facilitation and coaching: lead refinement and mentor others to improve backlog quality and sprint predictability.
• Dependency leadership: coordinate cross-team dependencies and communicate sequencing/tradeoffs effectively.
• Triage leadership: lead defect prioritization and trend awareness to drive prevention and quality improvements.
• Tool fluency: use ADO for traceability, workflow management, and actionable reporting.

Abilities

• Make day-to-day priority decisions balancing customer value, business outcomes, and technical feasibility.
• Operate at sprint cadence with attention to detail and rapid response to delivery-team questions.

Our benefits package includes:

• Comprehensive medical benefits
• Competitive pay
• 401(k) retirement plan
• …and much more!

About INSPYR Solutions

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