JOB SUMMARY
The Technical Product Owner I represents the product stakeholders to the engineering and architecture teams. This involves managing the product backlog and prioritization of work items and determining the overall direction of the product in alignment with the Product Manager and additional stakeholders. They also maximize product value, utilize strong communication and influencing skills with internal stakeholders and our customers, provide training, participate in implementations and conduct product demonstrations.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Responsible for translating business strategies, product visions and product goals into prioritized technical roadmaps and requirements.
- Primary liaison between business stakeholders and technical teams.
- Communicates the product vision and goals to technical teams to ensure clear understanding of goals. Ensures that products being built bring value and meet the product goals.
- Collaborates with stakeholders on priorities and requirements.
- Owns all aspects of the product backlog: Priorities, backlog refinement, iteration planning, breaks down epics and features into manageable user stories, creates acceptance criteria and manages story acceptance, holds technology demos, etc.
- Leads team through technology transformation efforts which includes the creation of microservices and APIs for Cloud migration initiatives. Communicates build progress and status to stakeholders and leaders. Escalates risks as needed.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
PRIMARY RESULTS ACCOUNTABLE FOR ACHIEVING
- Maintains an accurate and prioritized product roadmap and backlog.
- Ensures technology engineering teams are working on the most important product features.
- Ensures future development of products aligns with product strategy, product vision and product goals.
- Creates value-based user stories that explain what users are doing and why to ensure proper business context drives appropriate product designs.
- Maintains software/tools used by product managers, product owners and technical teams to efficiently manage work.
- Works directly with internal stakeholders, providing clearly guided AGILE management, influencing SDLC process, maintaining product management software, ensuring well-groomed/prioritized backlog management, high quality product delivery, sharing of knowledge and a willingness to always undertake any team initiative.
JOB REQUIREMENTS
- Education or job knowledge equivalent to college or university undergraduate education.
- SAFe Certifications
- Product Manager/Product Owner Certifications - Pragmatic Certified, Certified Product Owner (CPO or CSPO), Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO), etc. Cloud Certifications (Microsoft Azure preferred)
- The minimum amount of relevant work experience required to successfully perform the job, is three (3) years.
- 1+ year of experience with SDLC/Agile development technologies including user story definition.
- 1+ year of experience working with large development teams with multiple scrum teams and development interdependencies.
- 1+ years of experience working with APIs/web service technologies.
- Communication skills
- Influence skills
- Decision Making skills
- Problem Solving skills
- Execution skills
- Reasoning skills
- Computer skills
- Administrative skills
- Analytical skills
- Leadership skills
WORK ENVIRONMENT
- The work environment characteristics described below are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Travel: Minimal travel required (up to 20%).
ABOUT CSI
As a forward-thinking software provider, Computer Services, Inc. (CSI) helps community and regional banks solve their customers’ needs through open and flexible technologies. In addition to its award-winning core banking platform, these include the latest in lending, digital banking, payments, financial crime prevention and cybersecurity. Building on its nearly 60-year track record of personalized service, CSI is shaping the future of banking and empowering its customers to rival their competition. For more information about CSI, visit www.csiweb.com
CSI provides rewarding and challenging career opportunities for our employees. When determining your pay, we consider various factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience and location. Along with a competitive salary, this position includes eligibility for incentive awards based on both individual and business performance. We also offer a comprehensive range of benefits.
CSI is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. If you need an accommodation during the recruitment process, please email us at recruiter@csiweb.com and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs.
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Visa Sponsorship: We are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this position. Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for sponsorship now or in the future.
