Alpha Product Owner, AVP

Who we are looking for

In the Alpha Product Owner, AVP role, the incumbent will be the link between business teams, IT, and external parties to support Alpha’s industry leading Transaction Management and Trade Confirmation platform. In this position you will analyze business challenges and become a subject matter expert to drive business requirements with our developers. You will play a key role in designing and developing complex solutions to support our clients Front-to-Back transaction needs.

Why this role is important to us

You will collaborate with the customer, global technical teams and key stakeholders across the business to ensure that the business functions of the delivered solution match organizational goals and customer requirements. This role is an integral component in the industry’s first ever Front-to-Back client servicing platform. Join us if making your mark in the financial services industry from day one is a challenge you are up for.

What you will be responsible for

As a Alpha Product Owner, AVP you will be responsible for:

• Gathering of business/system requirements by facilitating user/client meetings, interviewing users, and researching.
• Work with our business partners, perform/lead initial analysis of the request, provide assessment and gather estimation of the effort with development teams
• Identify compile, analyze and document business requirements that accurately and thoroughly reflect business needs.
• Document business requirements using clear, concise language consistent with the methodology framework.
• Support ongoing project management- including progress monitoring, reporting and quality assurance throughout the project
• Acts as a liaison between users/client, developers, testers, and implementation specialists.
• Participate in strategic projects, e.g., conducting research, collecting and providing requested data, etc.
• Build and manage strong relationships with project sponsors and stakeholders in Operations, Technology and the business units that focus on complex asset types, understanding competing priorities across these groups.
• Understanding of OTC Derivatives, ETDs, Equity, and Fixed Income standard data modeling, transaction processing, and product knowledge to facilitate architecture, design, and integration.
• Working directly with 3rd party vendors, OMS’, accounting agents and other interested third parties to manage implementations and deployments.
• Coordinating communication protocol setup and integration tests with external parties.
• Understand the firm’s strategic plans, business, process and architecture in order to influence design and develop solutions.
• Working with the implementation lead to detail and understand flows for all in scope financial instruments.
• Assist in identifying any gaps in the process so they are fully tracked through to the delivery, testing and finally incorporation into the standard operating model.
• Provides regular updates at the Program Management and Project levels and keeps senior management/relevant parties abreast of key milestones and deliverables as per the contractual agreement.
• Ensures all processes are fully documented from both a set up perspective and a market knowledge SME perspective.
• Ensure all processes are automated wherever possible and continue to look for new opportunities for automation.

What we value

These skills will help you succeed in this role

• Product Owner (or similar) experience a plus
• Experience in SDLC & Agile Methodology
• Experience with Complex OTC Derivatives a plus
• Experience working with event-driven architectures, relational / NoSQL databases, and schema management
• Must have strong communication, analytical, and problem solving skills
• Ability to think creatively and strategically with a focus on achieving outcomes
• Proven history solving complex client use cases with effective business and technology solutions
• Must be detail oriented
• Demonstrate excellent process and project management skills
• Must be able to work independently as well as a part of a larger global team
• Must have strong networking skills to assist in pulling together individuals and requirements from key areas
• Ability to work on multiple projects concurrently and prioritize work accordingly

Education & Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with at least 3 years’ experience as a business / product analyst, or related experience, requirements gathering, design, and development of enterprise application systems
• Strong industry and work experience with the middle and back office
• Experience using Agile Methodology tools (i.e. JIRA, RTC, etc.)