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Product Owner Recovery Agile Team
Discover Financial Services
Riverwoods, IL, United States
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Job Description:
Key member of the business, who is the conduit to technology thru the agile team. This role is responsible for writing user stories that align to the product features. The incumbent ensures the pipeline (backlog) stays full and is prioritized. Internally focused: on the Agile team and implementation. The incumbent plays a significant role in quality and is the only team member empowered to accept user stories as done. Typically supports one Agile team. This role has significant relationships outside the local team, including working with the Product Manager to prepare features and user stories for continuous planning cycles.
Responsibilities:
• Manages and prioritizes the sprint backlogs continuously with team input (prior to and during the backlog grooming sessions).
• Empowered to make all critical decisions regarding functionality and priority in the Sprint. Signs off to “accept” each user story during sprint.
• Develops user stories from prioritized features in collaboration with Product Manager.
• Champions efforts to attain product vision and objectives. Writes acceptance criteria for user stories.
• Ensures that user stories all meet Definition of Ready (DoR) and are updated in Rally (Agile Management Tool).
• Works with a dedicated agile development team to deliver customer/business value through product features. Is the conduit to other business partners for this team.
• Collaborates with other Product Owners and/or Product Manager to uphold business priority and vision.
• Provides periodic status updates to business stakeholders and upper management. Is the point of contact for the Agile team with the business and SMEs.
Skills:
Requirements:
• Bachelors degree required in Business, Marketing, IT Project Management, info systems, design and computer science, Master degree preferred.
• 2+ years of experience in Technology interface Agile environment
• SAFe Agile Certification preferred
• Certified Scrum Product Owner preferred
• Strong written and oral communication, problem solving and organizational skills
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