Product Owner (L1) (contract)

Description

Summary: In this contingent resource assignment, you may:

• Consult on or participate in moderately complex initiatives and deliverables within Business Execution and contribute to large-scale planning related to Business Execution deliverables.
• Review and analyze moderately complex Business Execution challenges that require an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.
• Contribute to the resolution of moderately complex issues and consult with others to meet Business Execution deliverables while leveraging solid understanding of the function, policies, procedures, and compliance requirements.
• Collaborate with client personnel in Business Execution.

Required Qualifications

• Business Execution, Implementation, or Strategic Planning experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work or consulting experience, training, military experience, education.

Key Responsibilities

• Agile Product Delivery:
  • Own and maintain the team backlog.
  • Translate features, epics, and business requirements into well-defined user stories.
  • Develop clear acceptance criteria and business rules.
  • Ensure stories meet Definition of Ready standards prior to sprint planning.
  • Support feature decomposition and story sizing activities.
  • Facilitate backlog refinement sessions with engineering and business partners.
  • Partner with Scrum Masters and Engineering Leads to support sprint planning and execution.
  • Help establish sprint goals and ensure work aligns with roadmap priorities.
  • Participate in sprint reviews, demonstrations, retrospectives, and planning activities.
• Requirements Management:
  • Gather, document, and refine business requirements from stakeholders.
  • Analyze current-state and future-state processes.
  • Create user stories, process flows, use cases, and functional requirements.
  • Identify assumptions, dependencies, risks, and cross-team impacts.
  • Ensure requirements are testable, measurable, and implementation ready.
  • Maintain traceability between business objectives and delivered functionality.
  • Support UAT planning and business validation activities.
• Development Team Partnership:
  • Serve as the primary day-to-day product contact for assigned delivery teams.
  • Answer implementation questions and make timely requirement decisions.
  • Clarify business rules and priorities during development.
  • Work alongside engineers, architects, QA, and UX resources to resolve ambiguities.
  • Support defect triage and prioritization activities.
  • Ensure delivered functionality meets intended business outcomes.
• Stakeholder Collaboration:
  • Partner with Product Managers and senior stakeholders to understand strategic priorities.
  • Communicate delivery progress, risks, and dependencies.
  • Facilitate working sessions to refine requirements and align stakeholders.
  • Support roadmap planning and quarterly prioritization processes.
  • Build strong partnerships across business, operations, technology, risk, and compliance teams.
• Enterprise & Control Responsibilities:
  • Consider regulatory, compliance, audit, and operational risk requirements during solution design.
  • Ensure appropriate consideration is given to:
  • Data quality
  • Data lineage
  • Entitlements and access controls
  • Auditability
  • Operational resiliency
  • Exception handling
  • Upstream and downstream system dependencies
  • Support implementation within a highly regulated financial services environment.

Key Requirements

• Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S.
• This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
• Product Owner, Business Analyst, Product Analyst, or Agile delivery experience.
• Experience creating user stories, acceptance criteria, and managing Agile backlogs.
• Experience working directly with software engineering teams.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience working within large enterprise technology organizations.