Product Owner/Business Systems Analyst

Drive clarity across ambiguous problem spaces by framing business intent, defining system requirements, and shaping pragmatic solution approaches.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate solution alternatives and tradeoffs across cost, scalability, risk, and time-to-market
• Negotiate terms and conditions of vendor agreements
• Assess outcomes, measure impact, and inform roadmap evolution based on data and feedback
• Serve as a core member of the product team, sharing accountability for strategy, discovery, and delivery of complex brokerage platform capabilities
• Lead multi-functional collaboration across product, engineering, architecture, QA, and operations to define, deliver, and evolve scalable solutions
• Translate between business intent and technical execution, converting loosely defined requirements into precise, actionable technical direction
• Serve as the main contact between product, engineering, architecture, and team members, clearly representing both business objectives and technical implementation details (including third-party clients when needed)
• Write user and system stories, UML sequence diagrams, and system/workflow documentation
• Lead or influence multi-functional teams across define-build-test cycles and the full product lifecycle, from concept through production deployment

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field required; Master's degree preferred
• 6+ years of relevant experience spanning business systems analysis, product management, or technical product roles, including use case development, data analysis, system flows, and story writing
• Exceptional critical-thinking and systems-thinking skills, with a demonstrated ability to quickly understand complex system interdependencies and solve ambiguous business problems
• Strong ability to frame problems effectively, consistently asking "What problem are we trying to solve?" and challenging assumptions before solution design
• Strong bias toward MVP-driven, phased delivery, with experience breaking large initiatives into incremental releases and avoiding big-bang approaches
• Working knowledge of APIs, REST, SOAP, and JSON
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS) and SaaS environments preferred
• Deep understanding of Agile development methodologies
• Experience in financial services with brokerage domain experience a plus

Pay

$85 - 86 per hour

Schedule

8am to 5pm

Benefits

• Medical, prescription, dental, and vision insurance
• AD&D and life insurance
• Short-term disability
• 401K plan

Location: Jersey City, New Jersey
Job type: Contract