Technical Product Owner - Phoenix, United States - MatchPoint Solutions

Description

This is a Hybrid role. Looking for local to Phoenix candidates only.

Required Skills/Experience

Overall experience of 10 Years plus with experience as Product Owner executing projects with a distributed team structure

Demonstrated experience in a Product Owner role for at least 3 years, experience in the insurance or finance domain preferred

Certified Product Owner (CPO certification)

Articulates, elicits and inspires others to execute and support a compelling product vision and strategy

Clearly draws and articulates the boundaries of that vision while providing enough latitude for an Agile team to creatively solve problems

Determines and articulates Minimum Viable Product; that is, identifies those portions of an overall vision that are minimally necessary to achieve customer objectives

Diligently having managed Requirements & Releases using Scrum principles, practices, and theory with a distributed team structure. Preferred experience of having worked in a Scaled Agile environment.

Extensive experience requirement gathering & analysis to ensure consistency & comprehensiveness of the requirements. Familiar and comfortable in dealing with evolving requirements and frequent changes that naturally follows from this incremental approach

Proven track record in performing functional decomposition of large system and analysis of various use-case flows

Have extensive experience interacting with clients and end-users

Work with UX designers in creating mockups. Familiarity with tools like Invision, Figma etc.

Ability to develop test scenarios and cases for various types of functional tests: unit tests, integration tests, system tests & regression tests

Have sufficient experience performing functional (UI driven) tests

Experience working for ISV in product development role

Excellent written and verbal skills. Should be able to articulate business functionality, suggestions for improvements and functional queries in clear and concise manner

Very high commitment level

Should be culturally aligned to Agile way of working, self-starter, easily asks questions, good team player, willingness to do what it takes including documentation, data entry etc.

Translate High-level requirements from Product backlog to sufficiently detailed functional & feature requirements that developers can take for implementation

Work very closely with SME & Business stakeholders to define the Epics & Stories in a product backlog

Constructs and communicates an Agile teams product release plan to stakeholders

Collaborates with other Product Owners to manage inter-team dependencies

Work very closely with Scrum Masters to define & review feature list for various product

Work very closely with Scrum Masters & the Scrum Team so that they can elaborate Epics/Stories into sub-tasks as atomic units for development

Serves as the primary liaison between the Business/Sponsors and Scrum Masters (SCRUM Team). Elicits customer and stakeholder feedback on the quality and accuracy of delivered product features

Work with SCRUM champion and Scrum Masters in prioritizing product backlog

Participate in defining & reviewing functional & system test scenarios & test cases

Participate in functional tests

Plans for and facilitates planning sessions

Data PO Specific requirements:

Working knowledge of RDBMS & SQL is a requirement for the Data PO role having large volumes of data / Terabytes of data.

Familiar with the concepts of data modelling, data security, data lineage, data quality, data privacy and governance, data transformation etc.

Good to have Cloud experience having worked with AWS or Azure.

Preferred Skills/Experience

Demonstrated ability to drive the execution of a vision

Understanding of insurance products

Proven negotiation, influence and collaboration skills

Proven ability in the area of creative facilitation and encouragement of innovation

Encourages and demonstrates comfort with change, ambiguity, debate, conflict, experimentation, and informed risk taking

Proven public speaking skills

Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate with both technical and business associates

Proven ability to make or facilitate effective decisions as they relate to an Agile teams product delivery

Ability to make a positive contribution as demonstrated by learning new skills and making suggestions for process/procedure improvement

Ability to work with others in a collaborative team environment