JOB SUMMARY

The Technical Product Owner II represents the product stakeholders to the engineering and architecture teams. This involves managing the product backlog and prioritization of work items and determining the overall direction of the product in alignment with the Product Manager and additional stakeholders.

They also maximize product value, utilize strong communication and influencing skills with internal stakeholders and our customers, provide training, participate in implementations, and conduct product demonstrations.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Responsible for translating business strategies, product visions and product goals into prioritized technical roadmaps and requirements.
• Primary liaison between business stakeholders and technical teams.
• Communicates the product vision and goals to technical teams to ensure clear understanding of goals. Ensures products being built bring value and meet the product goals.
• Collaborates with stakeholders on priorities and requirements.

• Owns all aspects of the product backlog: Priorities, backlog refinement, iteration planning, breaks down epics and features into manageable user stories, creates acceptance criteria and manages story acceptance, holds technology demos, etc.
• Leads team through technology transformation efforts which includes the creation of micro services and APIs for Cloud migration initiatives.
• Communicates build progress and status to stakeholders and leaders. Escalates risks as needed.
• Attends customer meetings as required in order to understand customer needs and create products that drive value and deliver benefits in partnership with the Product Manager.
• Takes an informal mentorship role with less experienced Product Owners as needed.
• Energizes team to accomplish goals.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

PRIMARY RESULTS ACCOUNTABLE FOR ACHIEVING

• Maintains an accurate and prioritized product roadmap and backlog.
• Ensures technology engineering teams are working on the most important product features.

• Ensures future development of products aligns with product strategy, product vision and product goals.
• Creates value-based user stories that explain what users are doing and why to ensure proper business context drives appropriate product designs.
• Maintains software/tools used by product managers, product owners and technical teams to efficiently manage work.

• Works directly with internal stakeholders, providing clearly guided AGILE management, influencing SDLC process, maintaining product management software, ensuring well- groomed/prioritized backlog management, high quality product delivery, sharing of knowledge and a willingness to always undertake any team initiative.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

Education & Certifications:

Education or job knowledge equivalent to college or university undergraduate education.

Preferred Certifications:

SAFe Certifications

Product Manager/Product Owner Certifications - Pragmatic Certified, Certified Product Owner (CPO or CSPO), Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO), etc.

Cloud Certifications (Microsoft Azure preferred)

Experience:

• The minimum amount of relevant work experience required to successfully perform the job, is five (5) years.

• 3+ years of experience with SDLC/Agile development technologies including user story definition.
• 3+ years of experience working with large development teams with multiple scrum teams and development interdependencies.
• 2+ years of experience building roadmaps and working in roadmap and requirements management systems such as Aha, Jira and Azure.
• 2+ years of experience working with APIs/web service technologies.
• UX/UI experience

Required Skills:

• Communication skills
• Influence skills

• Decision Making skills
• Problem Solving skills
• Execution skills
• Reasoning skills
• Computer skills
• Administrative skills
• Analytical skills
• Leadership skills

RELATIONSHIP BUILDING

This position requires regular contact both inside and/or outside the company.

DECISION MAKING

This position requires frequent decision making and the ability to plan and perform unusual or difficult work with general operation methods/procedures.

SUPERVISION RECEIVED

General Direction. Exercises considerable latitude in determining objectives and approach to assignments. Completed work is reviewed from a long-time perspective for desired results.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment characteristics described below are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Travel: Minimal travel required (up to 20%).

Physical Demands:

The employee must be physically able to perform all essential job duties, with or without reasonable accommodation and shall be physically able to perform the tasks and/or functions listed above to the extent job-related and consistent with business necessity.

CSI is a leading fintech, regtech and cybersecurity solutions partner operating at the intersection of innovation and service. As a trusted technology company, CSI excels at driving businesses forward with a unique blend of cutting-edge solutions, decades of experience and a commitment to authentic partnerships defined by our customer-first culture.

CSI is dedicated to providing challenging and rewarding careers for our employees across the country and offers a competitive compensation package, including health, dental and vision insurance, paid vacation, 401k, and much more!

For more information about CSI, visit www.csiweb.com.

CSI is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetics, or any other legally protected basis.