Associate Technical Product Owner, Assurant-GCC, India
Represents the Business Product Owner at the team level, ensures that the team is delivering the functionality that meets business and client needs. He/she must have past experience working with technology teams, and business skills and experience are a plus. The technical product owner will be 100% allocated to one team in this role
This position will be in Hyderabad at our India location.
Working Hours: 12:30 PM IST to 9:30 PM IST
What will be my duties and responsibilities in this job?
- Works with Business Product Owner to understand business objectives and product requirements, collaborates with BPO to prioritize the backlog; collaborates with business stakeholders to clarify user story requirements as needed
- Writes functional and technical user stories that clearly communicate customer/stakeholder needs to the Agile team, accepts stories once complete
- Understands and supports inter-team dependencies, and escalates issues when necessary
- With Agile team, sets and communicates release date and scope
- Attends team events (e.g. daily stand-up, sprint planning, sprint review)
- Works with team members to ensure products are working in production (depending on DevOps model)
- Mentors junior team members to ensure maximum productivity.
Facilitate Periodic Access Reviews
Manage intake / assignment of audit requests to agile teams
Facilitate Access Termination processes
Manage organization’s self-audit processes
What are the requirements needed for this position?
Overall 5+ Years of Product Owner experience.
- Associates or Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field
2+ years experience facilitating audit requests, Periodic Access Reviews
2+ years experience managing agile backlog
2-4 years experience in a requirements and/ or audit request intake (e.g. business analyst), SME, or process owner role.- 2+ years experience with Power BI or other analytical tools.
- 1+ years experience managing a team of 2+ people preferred; additional business or technical training may be required.
- Recommended 2-5 years in industry
What is the Preferred Experience, Skills, and Knowledge needed for this position?
- Experience with agile development preferred; agile certification a plus
- Strong communication skills.
- Ability to develop productive working relationships with both technical and non-technical partners
- Knowledge of Agile development methodologies/tools and experience writing user stories.
- Good understanding of customer needs and business strategy
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