Lead Product Owner

The technical product owner at CME Group has a deep technical background in the technologies they own, and drives the scope and delivery plans for development in their product.  They are accountable for the roadmap, the backlog, technical direction, and the prioritisation of work.  The product owner should work closely with all areas of the organization to ensure iterative, timely, transparent and relevant releases.

This product owner would be accountable for our foundational platform’s middleware product.  This includes a number of technologies in use, or planned for use in the future such as Kafka, Vault, Consu, IBM MQ, and a number of GCP technologies.  They would be accountable not only for the current state implementations, but also driving the roadmap for the underlying functions they are providing.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Gathering requirements from development, architecture, and operations teams

• Creating user stories and acceptance criteria

• Building features and roadmaps for each of the technology stacks

• Prioritizing backlog and reporting productivity back to stakeholders

• Refining the product backlog

• Assessing new product ideas and attributing value

• Creation and Adherence to key SLOs

• Fulfill additional / ad hoc duties as required in order to meet the needs of the organization.

EXPERIENCE:

• Release planning and prioritizing

• Creating and sizing Features and Stories and planning into sprints

• Writing Acceptance criteria, requirement gathering

• Understanding of platform architectures

  • Messaging (Kafka, Google PubSub, Tibco FTL, IBM MQ, etc)

  • File Delivery (SFTP, GCS, S3, etc)

  • Configuration Management (Consul, GKE Config Maps, etc)

  • Secrets Management (Hashicorp Vault, Cyberark, etc)

• Analytical mindset and can-do attitude

• Ability to plan, estimate and deliver to timeframes in conjunction with Tech Leads and the Product Manager

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CME Group is committed to offering a competitive total rewards package for our employees that recognizes their contributions to the business and reflects our long-term investment in their future. The pay range for this role is $111,100-$185,100. Actual salary offered will be dependent on a wide array of factors including but not limited to: relevant experience, skills, education and comparison to internal employees (where relevant). Our compensation program also includes an annual target bonus opportunity for all employees, as well as the opportunity to become an owner in the company through our broad-based equity program. Through our benefits program, we strive to offer flexibility, value and choice. From comprehensive health coverage, to a retirement package that includes both a 401(k) and an active pension plan, to highly competitive education reimbursement provisions, paid time off and a mental health benefit, CME Group offers a holistic benefits package for our team and their dependents.

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