Role: Technical Product Owner
Location: St Louis, MO
Duration: Long term Contract
The candidate must possess excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with domain experts and technical experts in the team.
Prior experience working in Cloud migration projects is an added advantage for this position.
Onsite Technical Product Owner
Description
Client is looking for creative, enthusiastic and talented Technical Product Owner for one of the leading financial services organization in the US.
Responsibilities
As Technical Product Owner you will be a master at bridging the desires of the customer and the capabilities of the technology, removing barriers to software development.
Responsible for grooming the product backlog and have insight into technical requirements of individual stories thus creating a more efficient user experience
Able to translate the technical requirements into user stories
Serve as the conduit between user needs, technical capabilities, and engineering requirements, developing these into roadmaps and requirements for the Agile backlog of a development team
Lead the backlog refinement of features and user stories and ensure delivery teams are prepared to meet sprint deadlines
Work with others on a day-to-day basis to help make decisions on what is in scope and provide input into functional decisions
Daily interaction with the teams building the products including teams in the US and India
Coordinate with business customers and their project managers to ensure successful delivery
Work with Architect(s) and Tech Lead(s), Site Reliability Engineer(s) (SREs) to identify non-functional requirements such as infrastructure needs
You will work with Quality Assurance team member(s) to identify test cases for automated testing
Requirement
BS or MS degree in Computer Science or Business or equivalent job experience required
10 plus years of IT experience and 2 plus years as Product Owner
5+ years in experience managing product backlogs and requirements for Agile delivery teams in a Product Owner capacity
Strong experience as a technical product owner within an agile environment
You are skilled at removing roadblocks and can successfully evaluate workload to drive efficiency
Solid understanding of product requirements and business analysis
Strong experience of systems development life cycle, specifically solution design, analysis, architecture and design
Understanding of Cloud technologies
Stakeholder management to lead on and ensure delivery
Hands-on experience of managing multiple small/medium sized projects
Flexibility to manage time zone difference with international teams