CW Product Owner - Virtual, United States - TIAA

Description

This is a Non-Employee Contingent Worker Role providing services for TIAA's family of companies and will be employed by TIAA's preferred 3rd Party Supplier. As a Non-Employee CW, perform a variety of moderately complex business planning, support, and project-related duties. Demonstrates an exceptional standard of quality and holds themselves accountable to achieving excellent results.

This role will sit onsite, likely in a hybrid capacity, at the location(s) listed in this posting.

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Product Owner

Product Owner (PO) is responsible for defining stories and supporting scrum teams in the building of messaging and communication stories that meet our varying internal and external customer needs.

The PO will collaborate with product managers (PM), customers, and a wide range of stakeholders to identify and define requirements, maintain the team's backlog, and support the development of
Program Vision, Roadmap, and the Features required to meet these needs. They will also support other Agile Release Trains (ARTs) value delivery through the Program Increments (PI).

Key Responsibilities and Duties

• Collaborates with PM and customers, and is the voice of the customer on the scrum team.
• POs are responsible for creating stories, guiding the development team through the SDLC process.
• Developing a clear model of how the stories provide value to customers.
• Facilitate requirements elaboration, story construction, backlog refinement, and prioritization.
• Defines the sprint objectives in collaboration with the scrum team.
• Ensures that Stories are complete and accepted per the definition of done.
• Manages the priority of work and within the team's backlog in relationship to the committed feature priority.
• Is accountable for Scrum and SAFe ceremonies on the team.
• Defines sprint plan within the program increment.
• Works with Architecture to develop technical solutions.
• Maintains change management expectations to the vision and product roadmap.
• Manages Story Demos and stakeholder approvals.
• Manages legal and compliance requirements.
• Collaborates with other program PMs and supports larger solutions and capabilities.
• Constantly inspects and adapts, analyzing operations and processes looking for LEAN and continuous improvement opportunities.
• Applied knowledge of related business processes, products and applications, in addition to functional/ technical knowledge and testing knowledge in order to analyze and anticipate impacts to system changes.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• +5 years of experience in software development
• +2 years of experience in financial services industry
• 1 or more years' experience working JIRA
• +3 proven experience working as a Business Analyst or Product owner in scaled agile framework (SAFe) or other large scale agile frameworks.
• Has a multi-facetted operational skills and experience including: development, analysis, project/program management, SLDC, LEAN, Continuous Improvement, and quality management.
• Solid understanding of software development life cycle models as well as expert knowledge of Agile, Continuous Delivery and Continuous Integration
• Demonstrated experience developing stories in alignment with the feature roadmap for agile frameworks
• +2 years Prior experience with SCRUM/Agile methodologies with enterprise-level application development projects.

Anticipated Posting End Date:

Actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, time in role, base salary of internal peers, prior performance, business sector, and geographic location.

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