Product Owner

Description

Why Ness

We know that people are our greatest asset. Our staff’s professionalism, innovation, teamwork, and dedication to excellence have helped us become one of the world’s leading technology companies. It is these qualities that are vital to our continued success. As a Ness employee, you will be working on products and platforms for some of the most innovative software companies in the world.

You’ll gain knowledge working alongside other highly skilled professionals that will help accelerate your career progression. 

You’ll also benefit from an array of advantages like access to trainings and certifications, bonuses, and aids, socializing activities and attractive compensation.

Requirements and responsibilities

The Goal: We are seeking a Business Analyst/ Product owner with Agile product management experience to join our SAFe Agile certified Scrum teams. This team focuses on highly impactful, Global strategic initiatives. The role is inherently cross-functional which involves working closely with business owners, product managers, engineering, design, and operations teams to define and design the next evolution of Analytical products at S&P Global. We prefer someone who has experience in Banking, Financial services, Financial Markets, or Investment banking business domains.

The Opportunity: We are in search of a pro-active, highly motivated, product-mindset, analytical, team player who possesses an ability to quickly learn and understand ground operations of customer experience, optimize cost, and deliver results. He/ She should have a proven track record in taking on end-to-end ownership and successfully delivering product vision in a fast-paced and dynamic business environment. 
Do you love working on solving customer problems and improve their experience in day-to-day activities? Are you passionate about product management and want to thrive at the world’s most renowned financial services company with a global culture?

What you’ll do

• You will be a contributing member of a SAFe Agile Scrum team accountable for delivering high quality solutions to customers in a role as a product owner. 
  
• Feel empowered to innovate, create product roadmaps, articulate, and evangelize it across internal and external stakeholders.
  
• The chance to dig in to complicated functional requirements surrounding product experience problems and specifications. 
  
• Experience a State-of-the-Art ecosystem to work closely with business owners, product Leads and managers, data teams, information Architects, design engineers and others to build high quality product solutions. 
  
• Do you love data and analytics? Then, explore the vast opportunities to retrieve and analyze data, establish key business metrics to measure product success and drive alignment across all teams to improve them.
  
• Get a chance to demonstrate the ability to turn customer needs and pain points into innovative product features.
  
• Promote a SAFe Agile team culture. 
  
• An opportunity to become an industry leader in a world class fintech organization with rich resources and learning opportunities. 
• Attend workshops, planning sessions, Business requirements meeting with analytical teams, collaborate with UX teams to build product feature mock-ups, work with Data engineering / Information architects to document data requirements and plan epics/features/user stories for scrum team.
  
• Release planning, End-to-end requirement articulation, provide support in various phases during development and testing and ship the product to production.
  
• Participate in the scoping of proposed improvements work with business to turn the requirements into actionable developer specifications. 
  
• Works to mitigate all the scope related risks. 
  
• Works independently to provide user-support for data transformation, testing, solving problems, and end-to-end user needs. 
  
• Familiar with a variety of field’s concepts, practices, and procedures.
  
• Supports the team in overall estimation process by explaining the scope clearly 
  
• Clearly articulates the acceptance criteria.
  
• Showcase the business value for various features to the stakeholders via., sprint reviews.
  
• Work with the business owners, product leads, product managers and your scrum team to identify opportunities to enhance the product experience.
  
• Rely on limited experience and discernment to plan and accomplish goals.

What you’ll bring

• 5-8 years of relevant product experience as a product manager or Product owner. 
  
• Possess an Agile product mindset and passionate about product vision and ownership
  
• Previous experience on working in SAFe agile scrum teams as a BA/PM.
  
• Has potential to prioritize and take the critical decisions 
  
• Good to have knowledge on how technologies like Databases, Bigdata, Reporting, UI (Angular/React) and Java work. 
  
• Ability to clearly bring together and document software requirements 
  
• Affinity for learning complex business scenarios, critical thinking, and analytical reasoning. 
  
• Communication skills (active listener, ability to build consensus, and support across functions, globally) 

Other Qualifications

• Prior experience in financial services industry (Fintech) is necessary.
  
• Proficient in Agile from a product delivery perspective. 
  
• Experience in large global teams. 
  
• Pro-active attitude with proven examples of creating business value with applied innovation. 
  
• Business analysis experience and preferable understanding of data analytics and visualization. 
  
• Nice to have knowledge or hands-on experience in any technical competencies. 
  
• Basic knowledge of data analytics (Bigdata, Databricks, Data Lake). 
  
• Data Visualization, and experience maneuvering DevOps culture. 

Not checking every single requirement?

If this role sounds good to you, even if you don’t meet every single bullet point in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. For most of the candidates that applied, we found a role that was a very good fit with their skills.

Let’s meet and you may just be the right candidate for one of our roles.

At Ness Digital Engineering we are willing to build a work culture that is based on diversification, inclusion, and authenticity.