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Senior Product Owner - (interview eval test)

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Hybrid
Chicago, IL, USA
Mid level
Hybrid
Chicago, IL, USA
Mid level
The Senior Product Owner will translate business needs into product vision, manage backlogs, develop user stories, and maintain partnerships while ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.
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Job Summary

Collaborate with internal and external partners to ensure assigned platforms are well-positioned to meet the current and future needs of the enterprise. Collect, clarify, and translate business needs into a clear end-product vision for the development teams. Manage team backlogs, feature detail decomposition, and develop user stories and acceptance criteria. Develop and maintain a strategic roadmap for platforms. Maintain working knowledge of platform functionality and partner product roadmaps to anticipate upcoming changes and position the enterprise to best leverage future feature offerings. Implement enterprise and divisional initiatives that require custom application development, technical research and analysis, business process design, and the integration of systems and external partners.

Essential Responsibilities

  • Develop user stories and acceptance criteria for feature enhancements, serving as the liaison between development teams and business partners.
  • Translate and communicate partner requirements into stories and present requirements to the development team. Create and maintain clear acceptance criteria for user stories.
  • Lead sprint work for the development team and provide final approval of work.
  • Participate in meetings, reviews, and retrospectives. Participate in testing for quality assurance and user acceptance.
  • Maintain a current, relevant understanding of platform technologies, including current features and long-term partner roadmaps.
  • Develop and maintain a banking roadmap to ensure the credit union remains stable, secure, and well-leveraged, and positioned to meet strategic needs.
  • Communicate with internal stakeholders on enhancement and fix requests, managing expectations and timelines.
  • Understand the enterprise business processes built upon assigned platforms inside and out.
  • Partner with other teams to ensure solution design aligns with requirements around technical architecture, performance, maintainability, and security.
  • Manage assigned banking commitments in SAFe, create comprehensive program increment plans, and represent assigned banking in PI Planning activities.
  • Drive projects and general progress toward the completion of requirements and implementation.
  • Navigate solution delivery efforts through established Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) processes.
  • Monitor threats, risks and opportunities that might affect the success of projects.

Adhere to and ensure compliance of all business transactions with policy and process of the Bank Secrecy Act. Ensures compliance with all applicable state and federal laws, company procedures and policies. Maintains integrity and ethics in all actions and conversations with or regarding credit union members and their accounts; complies with Privacy Act directives. 

The responsibilities listed do not contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this position. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Education

Minimum- 4 Year Bachelors Degree in Marketing, Business, E-Commerce, technology or Related

Years of Experience

  • Minimum - 3 Years Product owner, agile/scrum software, Scaled Agile Framework (SEFe) or related
  • Preferred - 2 Years The financial core technology, Symitar Episys, operations, lending, finance, member service or related

In Lieu of Education

6 Years Product owner, agile/scrum software, Scaled Agile Framework (SEFe) or related



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Top Skills

Agile
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Scrum
Software Development Lifecycle
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Alliant Credit Union Chicago, Illinois, USA Office

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