• Job Description

  Req#: R0272326

  Job Description:

  Job Title: Product Owner

  Location: Pune

  Role Description

  Our technology teams are responsible for the bank's complete information technology infrastructure. They develop and maintain programs that are required for the bank's business. The teams work closely with the business units and other infrastructure units to modernize their IT systems to reduce complexity, minimize risk, and enable growth.

  Working in the Bank's Technology division means looking ahead and shaping the future. We rely on employees who derive economically viable ideas from technological trends and developments, who redesign our business and offer our customers added value. It is always about meeting the needs of customers, regulators and markets alike.

  Our Technology, Data and Innovation (TDI) strategy is focused on strengthening engineering expertise, introducing an agile delivery model, as well as modernizing the bank's IT infrastructure with long-term investments and taking advantage of cloud computing.

  To strengthen our development team, we are looking for Software Engineers who can design, develop and implement innovative solutions to achieve our goal.

  The position is located in Corporate Bank – Payments Technology

  As a Product Owner, you will be accountable for maximizing the value of the product resulting from the work of the Scrum Team to meet business needs. The role requires you to deliver effective Product Backlog management, which includes:

  • Developing and explicitly communicating the Product Goal;
  • Creating and clearly communicating Product Backlog items;
  • Ordering Product Backlog items; and,
  • Ensuring that the Product Backlog is transparent, visible and understood.

  Further, this PO role will be part of the payments scrum team comprising of engineers, functional analysts and test specialists. The team is responsible for developing and implementing micro-services and solutions around the Real-time Engine (RTE) and Payments Engine (PE) products for the SEPA instant payments implementations.

  What we’ll offer you

  As part of our flexible scheme, here are just some of the benefits that you’ll enjoy

  • Best in class leave policy
  • Gender neutral parental leaves
  • 100% reimbursement under child care assistance benefit (gender neutral)
  • Flexible working arrangements
  • Sponsorship for Industry relevant certifications and education
  • Employee Assistance Program for you and your family members
  • Comprehensive Hospitalization Insurance for you and your dependents
  • Accident and Term life Insurance
  • Complementary Health screening for 35 yrs. and above

  Your key responsibilities

  • The role requires hands on experience in Payments business and working with Agile teams– Aligned to the Agile SAFE Product owner definition, the responsibilities include:
    • Product Owner (PO) is a member of the Agile Team responsible for defining Stories and prioritizing the Team Backlog to streamline the execution of program priorities while maintaining the conceptual and technical integrity of the Features or components for the team.
    • The PO has a significant role in maximizing the value produced by the team and ensuring stories meet the user’s needs and comply with the Definition of Done.
    • This is a critical role, typically translating into a full-time job, requiring one PO to support each Agile team (or, at most, two teams).
    • This role has significant relationships and responsibilities outside the local team, including working with Product Management, Customers, Business Owners, and other stakeholders.
  • Managing the product backlog (Capacity estimation and planning, L0 and L1 estimation of EPIC/Story level).
  • Prioritizing needs (Clear categorization of an MVP and BoW definition/priority).
  • Overseeing development stages.
  • Anticipating client needs.
  • An expert in flow of value of products through multiple systems.
  • Evaluating product progress at each iteration.
  • Expert in defining end to end business flow for payments– for example High value and cross border payments.
  • Go-to expert in a business flow for example in a P1 production issue or in major change initiative they will be lead for Investigation, analysis and requirements.

  Your skills and experience

  Must have skills

  • Expert level understanding of Payments area eg in Payments correspondent banking and domestic/cross border payment messaging (including but not limited to SWIFT MT/pacs/camt, SEPA, Faster Payments).
  • Knowledge of ISO20022 financial service messages.
  • Experience of Agile software delivery methodology and tools/skills like specification by example and writing acceptance criteria.
  • Experience leading virtual teams with a need to influence and direct people without direct line management responsibility.
  • Experience organizing and leading workshops focused on requirements gathering, analysis and refinement.

  Experience and qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience as a hands-on analyst within a relevant domain, including non-technical and technical responsibilities within a similar sized financial services organization.
  • 5+ years in a senior / leadership capacity with ultimate responsibility for managing a product working with business and IT teams for a given initiative
  • Bachelor of Science/Engineering degree from an accredited college or university with a concentration in Computer-Science or Software Engineering (or equivalent)

  How we’ll support you

  • Training and development to help you excel in your career.
  • Flexible working to assist you balance your personal priorities.
  • A culture of continuous learning to aid progression.
  • A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs.

  About us and our teams

  Please visit our company website for further information:

  https://www.db.com/company/company.htm

  Our values define the working environment we strive to create – diverse, supportive and welcoming of different views. We embrace a culture reflecting a variety of perspectives, insights and backgrounds to drive innovation. We build talented and diverse teams to drive business results and encourage our people to develop to their full potential. Talk to us about flexible work arrangements and other initiatives we offer.

  
  We promote good working relationships and encourage high standards of conduct and work performance. We welcome applications from talented people from all cultures, countries, races, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, beliefs and generations and are committed to providing a working environment free from harassment, discrimination and retaliation.

  Visit Inside Deutsche Bank to discover more about the culture of Deutsche Bank including Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Leadership, Learning, Future of Work and more besides.

• About the company

  The bank's network spans 58 countries with a large presence in Europe, the Americas and Asia.

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