Product Owner

Outstanding long-term contract opportunity! A well-known Financial Services Company is looking for a Product Owner in Des Moines, IA OR Charlotte, NC (hybrid schedule). Work with the brightest minds at one of the largest financial institutions in the world. This is a long-term contract opportunity that includes a competitive benefit package! Our client has been around for over 150 years and is continuously innovating in today's digital age. If you want to work for a company that is not only a household name, but also truly cares about satisfying customers' financial needs and helping people succeed financially, apply today. Duration: 24 months Desired Skills & Experience: 4+ years of product management/owner experience Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment. Experience writing user stories and user story refinement. What You Will Be Doing Support the Product Owner to document application/platform current state, define use cases, and conduct analysis. Business processes Data mapping Known gaps - in tech solution or business process Apply critical thinking and thought leadership on problem solution design. Engage appropriate product and business stakeholders. Facilitate/participate in new work requirement sessions with Product Owner and stakeholders and collaborate with SMEs to provide business knowledge. Participate in feature refinement sessions along with the Product Owner to identify dependencies. Write user stories with guidance and support from the Product Owner. Ensure the Definition of Ready (DoR) is met for each user story. Support control related activities/requests for audit evidence. Facilitate frequent collaboration between customers, stakeholders, and teams throughout the product lifecycle. Raise awareness to the Product Owner for unplanned work (sprint disruptions) and identify potential trade-offs. Partner with UAT team to identify business testing strategy/approach and share use cases; help engage end users in UAT activities, as needed. At times, perform lightweight UAT testing to augment UAT testing team capacity if not available. Facilitate/participate in user story refinement session(s) ensuring a backlog depth of two sprints; proactively identify and elevate issues. Document use cases/scenarios which can be used in requirements/design and business testing/UAT. Assist with UAT and data governance coordination. Represent scrum team in Production triage meetings, researching issues/defects as needed. Act as point of contact for defects. Assist with Sprint Planning by reviewing the current sprint, identifying carryover items and prioritizing items for the upcoming sprint. #J-18808-Ljbffr Motion Recruitment