Agile Product Owner

Job Description

Are you curious, motivated, and forward-thinking? At FIS you’ll have the opportunity to work on some of the most challenging and relevant issues in financial services and technology. Our talented people empower us, and we believe in being part of a team that is open, collaborative, entrepreneurial, passionate and above all fun.

About the team:

This position is for the Modern Banking Platform (MBP) Product Owner team - Retail Deposits.

FIS Modern Banking Platform is cloud-enabled, componentized, open and secure – a modernized core solution designed with API-first functionality that provides FIS clients with the flexibility and speed needed to innovate into the future.

What you will be doing:

Product Owners employ customer centricity and design thinking to guide agile scrum teams in delivering software applications that meet client and strategic goals. This role must be well versed in Agile principles and methodology; experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is a plus.

As a member of the MBP Product Owner team you will:

• Break down Features from Product Management into small, deliverable user stories with clear acceptance criteria
• Provide daily product direction to 1 or 2 scrum teams
• Work with the Product Management team and Solution Architect to ensure scope alignment
• Contribute to feature prioritization discussions with the Product Management team
• Prioritize a team’s iteration backlog of user stories
• In conjunction with the scrum master, protect the scrum team from fly-in work by managing stakeholder’s requests.

GENERAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Understands product strategy, market, industry, and client goals for Retail Deposit products and processing.
• Contributes to prioritization discussions with Product Managers; employs Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF) thinking to provide insightful input.
• Works with stakeholders to understand business problem statements and convert them into user stories.
• Articulates product vision and user stories in a manner clearly understandable to development teams.
• Manages backlog of user stories for one or more products or components - understands end-to-end business processes.
• Establishes user story acceptance criteria, accepts user stories, refines stories with Scrum teams.
• Provides immediate and accessible feedback on a daily basis to the scrum team(s) to ensure application changes meet acceptance criteria.
• Participates in Iteration planning and Program Increment Planning activities with the development scrum teams.
• Monitors the development progress and provides updates to stakeholders, as requested.
• Applies Agile methods and processes and encourages frequent inspection and adaptation of ongoing work product.
• Leads planning and review meetings to communicate feedback on development achievements.
• Other related duties assigned as needed.

What you bring:

• 2 or more years of experience as a Product Owner, Business Analyst, or Project Manager in the financial services software industry
• Customer centric mindset that applies design thinking principles
• The desire to be a change agent and advocate for the adoption of Agile principles.
• Strong negotiation, organization, management, analytical and people skills

Added bonus if you have:

• Subject matter expertise and experience working on Retail Deposits products and services
• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) PO/PM certification and/or experience

What we offer you:

• A competitive salary and benefits
• A multifaceted job with a high degree of responsibility and a broad spectrum of opportunities
• A modern, international work environment and a dedicated and motivated team
• A variety of career development tools, resources, and opportunities
• The chance to work on some of the most challenging, relevant issues in financial services & technology

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Sourcing Model

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