Senior Product Owner

About Mindlance: Advance your career with Mindlance! We have been connecting talented IT professionals with world-class companies since 1999. Mindlance is here to help you to find the perfect fit with just the right company. Currently, we are seeking an Operational Analyst for an exciting career growth opportunity. Make your next big career move with the kind of position that will allow you to be genuinely passionate about the work you do! Our recruiters will work closely with you to help you get the edge over the competition. Let Mindlance advocate for you – apply today! “Mindlance is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of – Minority/Gender/Disability/Religion/LGBTQI/Age/Veterans.” Job Title: Senior Product Owner Job Category: 18 Months – (Contract/Contract to Hire) Industry: Banking Job Location: 214 North Tryon, Charlotte, NC Top 3/5 Skills: Payment, commercial payment, wholesale banking, agile. Min & Max Pay Rate: $85.00/hr.–$ 90.00/hr. Job Title: Senior Product Owner Location: Charlotte, NC/ Atlanta, GA Duration: 18 months (Contract/Contract to Hire) Description : Business Initiative/Purpose: (Goal, Business Impact, Accomplishments from the work) Develop distinctive payment & transfer experiences in our client facing wholesale banking application One View. Bachelor Degree: (Required, Preferred or Not Required) · Preferred. Role Responsibilities: (what they will be doing) · Following is a summary of the essential functions for this job. Other duties may be performed, both major and minor, which are not mentioned below. Specific activities may change from time to time. · Lead their delivery team’s priorities in PI planning, sprint planning, and other agile ceremonies; aligned to larger experience platform priorities and vision · Clearly articulate product strategy to the delivery team · Deliver new experiences by working directly with delivery, experience design, business, and operations partners to design new products and improvements to existing capabilities · Author and maintain the team’s backlog of user stories and serve as a subject matter expert on features, user stories, and product capabilities · Perform triage on critical issues and communicate consistently and clearly with all concerned parties · Serve as key resource to development team to answer questions, provide clarifications, and conduct and coordinate business validation · Update leadership on the epic and feature delivery schedule, including dependencies impacting deliverables, along with recommended solutions · Partner with solution architects and other technical leads to ensure their solutions effectively address program priorities while balancing client experience and technical integrity · Facilitate sprint planning with stakeholder groups to drive alignment and visibility for which features will be built when, and to ensure overall adherence to the product roadmap and enterprise strategic themes · Facilitate sprint demos and provide final acceptance for completed user stories in sprint demos; ensuring that the story meets acceptance criteria and otherwise meets its definition of done · Coordinate the creation of release-specific business documents, such as support model definitions, go/no-go approvals, internal release notes, and release-related living documents · Risk management: As needed, ensure all Product Management Lifecycle (PML) process & procedures are followed, supporting security, risk, audit, and more, and ensure action items and deadlines are met. Must Have Skills/Prior Experiences: (Vendor should not submit any candidate that does not have these skills/prior experience.) · The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. · Bachelors’ degree in business, engineering, design, or technology field; or related field or equivalent combination of education and professional experience. · Five or more years of banking, financial services, digital, or other relevant work experience. · Three or more years of product, analysis, technology, and/or design experience. · Three or more years of leading cross functional teams. · Experience defining and delivering business initiatives to execute on a product roadmap. · Demonstrated technical acumen and an ability to work with the technology organization to align product and technology roadmaps. · Ability to translate strategic plans into tactical daily actions for execution. · Ability to lead cross-functional teams without formal authority. · Comfortable managing concurrent projects in a fast-paced, results-driven environment. · Comfortable with ambiguity, leading work autonomously, and making independent decisions. · Strong analytical skills, ability to interpret data and trends, diagnose problems, and recommend action plans to resolve issues. · Excellent skills in presentation, facilitation, communication, and negotiation. · Experience with commercial payments, treasury management, and/or wholesale banking. Plus/Nice to Have Skills/Prior Experiences: (Hiring Manager DOES NOT require these skills/ prior experience. However, candidates with any of these will be looked at first.) Preferred Qualifications: · 5 years of experience working as a Product Manager/Owner working with agile teams developing banking or financial services software. · Master’s degree in business, engineering, design, or technology field; banking or financial management education. · Experience working with distributed teams (onshore/offshore). · Familiarity with The Silicon Valley Product Group's Product Model. · Certified SAFe® Product Owner/Product Manager (or equivalent). · Demonstrated thought leadership in the Product Management field.aa415a4b-8b21-40fc-a65c-70d2b25ca29a