About the job IT Product Owner IT Product owner needs 6+ years of professional experience with leadership in technology, business analysis or business.IT Product owner requires:
- 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.
IT Product owner duties:
- 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
- Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience in computer science, finance, business administration or related field. Graduate degree is a plus