Product Owner

Optomi, in partnership with a company serving the finance and technology industry, is seeking a Technical Product Owner for a remote position working CST or EST hours. This Product Manager will have experience supporting payment applications relating to wire transactions, ACH transactions, or payment programs (FedNow, FedDirect, FedLine). This candidate will preferably have familiarity with ISO 20022 as well.

Apply today if your background includes:

• 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.
• Wire application experience.
• Payments specific experience - working with debit cards, wire transaction, ACH transactions.
• Wire service providers payments for core processor experience.
• i.e. FedNow, FedDirect, FedLine (payments programs).
• Experience with Azure DevOps.

Nice to Have:

• ISO 20022 familiarity - they're doing a massive transformation from one format to another
• API understanding.
• Capable of coming in learning quickly, proactive, great personality!

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.