AVP, Technical Product Owner, Core Banking, Digital Banking

COMPANY DESCRIPTION:  Forbright is a nationwide full-service bank and commercial lender focused on helping to build a brighter future for our clients and the communities we serve. Forbright is committed to exceptional client service by providing seamless, innovative personal banking services to depositors and creative financing solutions to visionary middle market businesses and investors in healthcare, technology, financial services, real estate, and other industries.  COMPANY CULTURE:  We are a dynamic, high energy, fun, and fast-paced organization that has an exciting growth trajectory, meaningful mission, and embedded responsible practices into our daily interactions. We offer our team members a culture of collaboration, inclusion, flexibility, recognition, and giving back. We look to hire individuals that are passionate about our mission, and who are motivated, customer and results-oriented, innovative, adaptable, and thoughtful. COMPANY MISSION:  We are a mission-driven institution. We operate a sound dynamic institution that is well capitalized, liquid, profitable and uses best practices to manage risk and assure compliance with laws and regulations. We use Forbright’s capital, capabilities, innovation, and expertise to help our clients succeed and contribute broadly to building a brighter future. 
JOB SUMMARY: The AVP, Technical Product Owner, Digital Banking is responsible for strategically bridging the gap between business needs and complex technical execution. This position is instrumental in translating strategic product vision into precise technical requirements, ensuring seamless integration with our vendor solutions, and driving the roadmap and feature evolution of our core banking and payment products.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Own the "What" from a technical feasibility and vendor capability perspective. Define and refine the technical aspects of the product roadmap for core banking and payment solutions, ensuring it aligns with the overall business strategy and anticipates future technical needs and vendor capabilities 
• Collaborate with the Product Owner to translate high-level business goals into actionable, technically sound features and epics, clearly articulating the technical value proposition 
• Proactively research and assess new vendor capabilities, emerging technologies, and industry best practices to identify opportunities for product innovation and improvement 
• Partner with the Product Owner and Tech Lead on technical trade-offs, potential technical debt implications, and the technical complexities of various product options 
• Work directly with Finxact and Alacriti to understand their roadmaps, influence their feature development where relevant, and ensure their solutions meet our technical and business needs 
• Work with internal engineering teams and business stakeholders to align on roadmap and prioritization 
• Partner with Tech Lead and Product Owner to complete detailed technical specifications and integration requirements for both internal and vendor development, ensuring clear understanding and alignment 
• Manage and track technical dependencies with vendor roadmaps and releases 
• Decompose complex business requirements into detailed, unambiguous technical user stories with comprehensive acceptance criteria that account for system interactions, data flows, and non-functional requirements (scalability, performance, security) 
• Collaborate with the Tech Lead to refine user stories for technical clarity 
• Prioritize technical enabler stories, technical debt, and platform improvements alongside business features, ensuring a balanced and sustainable product backlog 
• Perform other duties as assigned 

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field required; Master’s Degreepreferred 
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in a Technical Product Owner, Technical Product Manager, or Solutions Architect role within the financial services industry, specifically focusing on core banking, payments, or digital banking platforms required 
• Demonstrated deep technical expertise in core banking systems Finxact, Revolut, Thought Machine, Port X) 
• Proven hands-on experience working extensively with and integrating major banking vendor solutions. Direct, in-depth experience with Alacriti, Q2, Alloy, MANTL, or similar core banking/payment/onboarding platforms is highly desirable, including understanding their APIs, data structures, and implementation methodologies 
• Strong understanding of modern architectural patterns (e.g., microservices, event-driven architecture) and cloud computing principles 
• Proficiency in reading and understanding technical documentation, including API specifications, sequence diagrams, and de