Agile Product Owner

Job Title: Agile Product Owner

Job Location: Tampa, FL (3 days-onsite)

# Positions: 1

Employment Type: C2H

Duration: Long Term

Key Technology: COBOL, Front-End, APIs

Job Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with agile teams to build and manage new features and capabilities while delivering desired business impact, while providing thought leadership to Program Governance activities such as prioritization and negotiating with stakeholders on backlog priorities.
• Responsible for owning the technical roadmap and non-functional requirements for product (e.g. page rendering times, how long it takes to log in, response on service calls).
• Work with disparate business groups to optimize business and financial cases for how technology will deliver their projects.
• Create, evolve and communicate feature area specifications that form cohesive, iterative plans that align to the multi release vision.
• Write high-quality Definition of Ready user stories using JIRA and maintain groomed backlog for business stakeholder priorities, and incorporate architectural changes recommended by engineering into user stories.
• Proactively resolve upstream dependencies and resolve conflict effectively across teams.
• Advocate for process improvements through an understanding of the engineering lifecycle and previous experience.
• Monitor and instrument products for business outcomes and tech product health.
• Ensure timely communication and facilitation of resolution for any product defects.
• Integrate and deploy tooling (e.g. Git and Jenkins) for team (place hold capacity).
• Enable test automation (i.e. acceptance criteria should be clear, agreed upon and tests should be automated).
• Focus on reducing technical debt to deliver value in terms of efficiency and quality metrics.

Skills and Experience Required:

Required:

• Experience working in technology as a system analyst or developer specific to COBOL mainframe systems, front-end applications, and APIs.
• Complete understanding and wide application of technical principles, theories and concepts in the field.
• Knowledge of user experience and technical design is essential.
• Proven skill at balancing technical knowledge with business possibility and acumen.
• Excellent communication skills, analytical mindset, ability to assess risk.
• Ability to work cross functionally with Compliance, IRM, Infrastructure, and Software Engineering.
• High degree of comfort in fast-paced dynamic / ambiguous environment.