Technical Product Owner

Position summary:

• This role is with Financial Services Software Engineering and with the key strategic Interactive Services solution – including the industry leading Interactive Teller.
• The technical product owner is responsible for maximizing product value and the work of the development teams.
• Client uses scaled agile development methods, primarily based on Scrum and SAFe.
• The Technical PO will help continually improve these methods and processes.
• The Technical PO will work with Product Management, Professional Services, Sales, Marketing, and Customer Support to drive new features to market and improve existing products.
• The Technical PO will have working knowledge and experience in an agile team environment, will develop stories, and will establish Backlog priorities while introducing new solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive product enhancements that increase customer value and grow revenue
• Work with product manager to define, develop, and refine requirements of a complex software product and manage them in the product Roadmap and Backlogs
• Define, clarify, and prioritize user stories; working with product manager and development teams to understand use cases, features, business and technical domain rules and product goals
• Collaborate with the scrum masters to run successful PI Planning, Sprint Planning, Release Planning and Reviews
• Collaborate with development teams to produce technically focused user stories and engineering tasks to ensure accuracy and feasibility
• Understand and advocate best practices in high-level system designs
• Collaboration with Architecture to advance product goals
• Collaboration and coordination with other product teams with interdependencies
• Input to the strategic vision for the product
• Work with field marketing teams to understand regional regulations that impact the software and product requirements
• Clearly express Product Backlog items, definition, grooming, refinement, and prioritize to best achieve business goals
• Ensure the Product Backlog is visible, transparent, clear to everyone, and shows what the Development Team will work on next
• Ensure Development Team properly understands items in Backlog
• Attend customer calls/meetings to listen to customer requirements and advise the customer on product features and strategic direction of the roadmap
• Present and demonstrate the solution to external groups and customers such as in the Customer Briefing Center
• Be aware of Client PS and WCS processes and practices and interface with these teams to guide and advise on products and solutions
• Provide technical input and estimates for RFIs and RFPs

Key Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Business Management, Marketing, or related discipline (Master's degree preferred)
• 9+ years' of directly related software product management and software engineering experience
• Demonstrated ability to navigate organizational dynamics of a large organization
• Ability to listen, learn and aggregate multiple data inputs and analyze best use for purposes of establishing prioritization
• Experience in a software development environment
• Terrific and demonstrated problem solving skills
• Very Strong oral and written communication skills
• Working knowledge and experience with financial services, banking, and/or teller systems
• Financial industry experience

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.