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Job Overview
About the Role
Join the Controls Technology division as a Technology Product Owner. In this critical role, you will act as the bridge between complex business needs and our engineering teams. You will be empowered to translate intricate requirements for risk and control systems into a flawlessly managed backlog of epics and user stories. Your primary mission is to drive the delivery of high-quality, compliant software by ensuring our development teams have the clarity and context needed to execute effectively, sprint after sprint. This is a role for a product owner — someone who thrives on execution, champions quality, and is passionate about building world-class technology solutions in a dynamic, global financial environment.
What You'll Do
1. Backlog Ownership & Agile Execution
- Own and Master the Backlog: Meticulously create, refine, and prioritize the product backlog, ensuring it is transparent, well-understood, and always ready for at least two sprints ahead.
- Translate Vision into Action: Deconstruct complex business requirements into well-defined Epics, User Stories, and precise Acceptance Criteria, ensuring a high percentage of stories are accepted without rework.
- Drive Sprint Success: Serve as the dedicated point of contact for the engineering team, providing unwavering clarity during sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and throughout the development cycle to remove ambiguity.
2. Solution Definition & Quality Assurance
- Define the "What": Partner with business stakeholders to elicit, analyze, and document requirements, defining the precise solution to be built.
- Champion Quality: Drive a quality-first mindset with a relentless focus on clear, testable acceptance criteria to minimize ambiguity and reduce critical defects in UAT.
- Demonstrate Value: Conduct compelling demos of new functionalities to stakeholders, showcasing the value delivered and gathering immediate feedback for iterative improvement.
- Track Performance: Track and report product performance post-launch to evaluate outcomes and support decisions around future investment.
3. Stakeholder Collaboration & Domain Leadership
- Build Partnerships: Act as the key liaison between business users, engineering teams, UX and other technology partners, fostering a collaborative environment to ensure seamless delivery; seeking continuous input from stakeholders and incorporating it into the backlog.