Product Owner

`*Job Title: IT Product Owner*

*Location: Remote*

*Contract: 3 Months (With possible extension)*

*Employment Type: W2 Hourly*



*JOB DESCRIPTION*

*Profile Description:*

· 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



*Education:*

· Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience in computer science, finance, business administration or related field. Graduate degree is a plus

· 6+ years of professional experience with leadership in technology or business analysis within the investment management business.

· 3+ years of product ownership experience preferred



*Required Skills:*

· Knowledge and experience of the Investment Management industry.

· IBOR Data migration experience and/or data warehouse migration experience in asset/investment management.

· Business and Functional requirement knowledge (i.e. elicitation of requirements, planning, documentation, analysis and alignment to standards)

· 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

· Excellent communication and influencing skills, both verbal and written. Capable of collaborating effectively functional communication to technical stakeholders, technical communication to non-technical stakeholders)

· Proven ability to manage multiple, concurrent work items with minimal supervision.

· Proven experience in a product owner role in an agile/scrum software development organization and understanding of the development lifecycle, preferred.

· Excellent decision-making ability to manage a complex ever changing priority list and resolve conflicts to competing priorities

· Value oriented

· Ability to embrace, adapt and lead through change, fosters effective partnerships and drive effective collaboration with peers and vendor resources.



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Job Types: Full-time, Contract

Pay: $80.00 - $90.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Experience level:
* 8 years
Schedule:
* 8 hour shift
* Day shift
* Monday to Friday



Experience:
* Product Owner: 8 years (Required)
* Asset management: 7 years (Required)
* Investment management: 7 years (Required)
* IBOR: 6 years (Required)
* Accounting: 4 years (Required)


Work Location: Remote

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