Scrum Product Owner Jobs (NOW HIRING)

Job#: 3037555
Job Description:
Scrum Product Owner
Large Banking Client
18 month contract
5x week onsite in Charlotte, Atlanta, Raleigh
$65/hr on W2 - we can not support C2C for this role
Requirements:

• Product Owner background
• Experience leading cross-functional teams
• Jira/Rally experience
• Experience working in a SAFe environment
• Experience defining & delivering digital 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 roadmap
  • Ability to translate strategic plans into tactical daily actions for execution
• Comfortable managing concurrent projects in a fast-based, 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
• Bachelors Degree
• Banking/Financial Services industry experience

Desired Skills (not required):

• Scrum Master certifications
• Payments experience

Position Responsibilities:

• Lead the Agile delivery team's priorities in PI planning, sprint planning, and other agile ceremonies; aligned to larger experience platform priorities and vision defined by product management.
• Align with product managers to 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, focusing on fitness for use.
• 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.

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