Realtime Payments Product Owner

Job Summary

A well-known Financial Services Company is seeking a Realtime Payments Product Owner in Irving, TX (Hybrid) for a long-term contract opportunity. The position offers a competitive benefit package and works within a regulated, large-scale environment.

About the Role

Work with the brightest minds at one of the largest financial institutions in the world. This is a long-term contract opportunity that includes a competitive benefit package.

Responsibilities

• Perform analysis and documentation of business requirements, functional requirements, and process flows
• Support current state and future state process analysis to identify gaps, impacts, and execution considerations
• Draft and maintain user stories, acceptance criteria, and execution artifacts using approved tools and templates
• Ensure requirements and documentation are accurate, complete, and traceable
• Support execution of assigned deliverables by maintaining backlog readiness, dependencies, and execution artifacts
• Affiliate with refinement to ensure work items meet definition of ready standards
• Business Analysis & Execution Support
• Track assigned deliverables, milestones, and action items against delivery plans
• Monitor execution progress and identify risks, blockers, or timing concerns
• Cook up follow ups across business and technology partners to support delivery timelines
• Prepare status updates, execution summaries, and readiness views for leadership and delivery forums
• Affiliate with escalation of execution risks, issues, or scope concerns through established governance channels
• Delivery Execution, Backlog & Coordination Support
• Assist with validation that deliverables meet approved acceptance criteria
• Risk, Governance & Compliance Execute work in adherence to risk, compliance, and change management standards
• Maintain required artifacts to support governance, controls testing, and regulatory review
• Identify and escalate execution or compliance risks appropriately

Requirements

• Typically, 5+ years of experience in business execution, analysis, operations, or delivery support roles
• Strong analytical, organizational, and documentation skills
• Required ability to comprehend and act within complex technological operating environments
• Experience in structured or Agile delivery environments
• Ability to work across multiple stakeholders and concurrent deliverables
• Experience in a Regulated, Large Scale Environment

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Prior experience in Payments, Treasury Services or Merchant Services
• Understanding of Agile methodology
• Understanding of life cycle of payment
• Jira/Confluence - ability to clean up Jira stories and develop an intake process and formatting in Confluence