Agile Product Owner II

Agile Product Owner II

Requirements

• Strong business domain understanding of New Business
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business Administration or equivalent educational or professional experience and/or qualifications.
• 8 + years of product owner, business analyst or system analyst experience in an agile environment
• Knowledge of Agile Values, Principles, and Approach
• Consumer centric focus with experience managing user experience components
• Demonstrated track record in effective requirement elicitation and analysis
• Must be able to think strategically and evaluate short-, medium-, and long-term options
• Self-directed and proactive, able to think beyond the immediate challenge and anticipate using exceptional judgment and problem-solving abilities.
• Demonstrate strong methodical analytical skills considering different data points, patterns, trends, and/or themes to support system requirements and identify root cause and issue resolution
• Excellent written and verbal communications, organization, analytical, planning and leadership skills.
• Strong management, communication, technical and remote collaboration skills.
• Excellent team collaboration skills, to include experience in dealing with multiple projects impacting different processes within the Individual Markets ‘arena’, multi-functional teams, and ability to coordinate across teams in a large matrix organization environment.
• Ability to learn and maintain a comprehensive understanding of Guardian’s business and technology.
• Strong relationship building and maintaining skills. Champions a climate conducive to establishing positive working relationships with clients (internal and external).
• Working knowledge of Confluence, Jira, Jira Align, MS project, MS Office Suite, and Visio

Responsibilities

• Analyze, decompose and elicit business requirements into small, estimated, functional, user stories.
• Define functional and non-functional requirements.
• Prioritize and sequence stories to increase business value delivered while maintaining a sustainable pace for the team.
• Works with Product Management Team to ensure vision, goals, and objectives are established and achieved.
• Develop overall understanding of appropriate business processes and workflows.
• Collaborate with Product vendor and QA, to support enhancements.
• Manage team dependencies, collaborating with Product Manager and other Product Owners.
• Accept user stories as done throughout the iteration with multiple define-build-test cycles.
• Participate in team and Agile Release Train (ART) Agile Ceremonies
• Apply an Agile mentality and behavior to effectively collaborate with the Agile Release Train (ART), team and stakeholder(s).
• Lead estimation, forecasting and prioritization for an Agile team.
• Make critical decisions regarding functionality and priority for the team with a focus on delivering value.
• Use various tools including personas to guide design choices, empathy maps to help teams understand user needs, journey maps to describe customer experiences across the operational value stream & story maps to design workflows.
• Provide coaching and mentoring to Product Owners
• Translate business requirements into technical specifications and user stories. Requirements could include but not limited to: Data Mapping, Data configuration, UI/Business configurations (Screen/Workflows), Product mapping/configurations, Business & System rules.
• Create/maintain Master Technical requirement documentation.
• Provide in-depth and sophisticated analyses with interpretive thinking to define problems, develop innovative solutions and influence strategic functional decisions.
• Identify project tasks required to support a successful implementation, including performing impact analysis, verbally communicating complex issues, validating production readiness and communicating implementation statuses.
• Engage with various areas to resolve problems in production and non-production environments as they arise.
• Participate in design sessions to ensure business process requirements translate into technical requirements, including user stories, use cases, design specifications, business process, data flows and acceptance criteria when applicable.
• Perform Unit testing as needed.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certified in Scaled Agile – SAFe Product owner (PO/PM) preferred, but not mandatory