Technical Product Owner - RECRUITED - CAN

Actively seeking for candidates with below requirements.


Advantages
You will have an opportunity to work with a leading employer in the local market.


Responsibilities
•Own and manage requests funneled in from the intake process, ensuring transparency and efficiency of the flow of work assigned to the agile delivery team’s Kanban board.
•Support the agile delivery team in end-to-end responsibility & successful implementation of all approved intake requests.
•Partner with business and other stakeholders, vendors, application development and testing teams to ensure quality solutions that meet the needs and expectations of our business partners and clients.
•Facilitate the hand-over discussions of each request between the agile delivery team, business stakeholders and impacted partners to develop a forward and actionable view of the requirements and analysis of scope and kick-off the execution of work.
•Establish and maintain an ongoing trusted advisory role with business stakeholders and partners.
•Work collaboratively with the Technical Leads and Service Delivery Manager to order work items in the team’s backlog and drive continuous prioritization of work.
•Work with DBTS and other Delivery partners to ensure development activities and dependencies are captured within scope of each new request.
•Provide support to the Business System Analyst to ensure they accurately translate the business requirements into user stories and acceptance criteria.
•Leverage the team’s Kanban Board for status reporting and dashboard overview.
•Help maintain documentation for each intake request, including notes/minutes, hand-over requirements, and any other supporting information for team to reference; ensure documentation is stored or updated in the applicable SharePoint or Confluence site, Service Now, etc.
•Collaborate with Service Delivery Manager and other Platform Technical POs to prepare Quarterly / Monthly Review deck for review with Senior Management / Leadership.
•Contribute to the continuous improvement of the team’s agile delivery processes.
•Other supporting tasks as defined and required by Delivery Practice Management leadership


Qualifications
•7+ years experience (as a Technical PO, Business Systems Analyst or similar role and as part of an agile delivery team)
•Experience in Web / Frontend technologies (ie. strong grasp of Web Architecture and Design principles, SEO, Accessibility, UX / User Design, Analytics Tagging, HTML, etc.)
•Experience with Agile Toolset (JIRA, Confluence) and time-tracking systems (Planview)
•Demonstrated knowledge of technology or ability to learn about technology and digital products, experience working on technical products is a plus
•Excellent ability to communicate at all levels with clarity and precision (verbal & written)
•Strong collaborator with cross-functional teams from technology, design, business, and Operations
•Core understanding of software development lifecycle and release planning
•Excellent problem solving and resolution, influencing, negotiation, and presentation skills
•Ability to manage multiple requests simultaneously and effectively managing the team’s backlog and prioritization of work while maintaining agile delivery quality and meeting stakeholder and business expectations
•Proven ability to build, develop and manage cross-divisional relationships and inter-dependencies
•Motivated individual capable of owning and driving assignments
Preferred Skills:
•A College or University degree, preferably in Information Technology, or equivalent experience
•Experience with Content Management Systems / Design Systems (ie. Adobe Experience Manager)
•Certified Product Owner, Kanban, SAFe certification or similar Agile training
•Insurance or Financial Services Sector experience is beneficial, but not required.


Summary
Do you have this experience? If you answer YES, then please apply IMMEDIATELY to so we can then discuss your experience and interest in this opportunity!

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