Product Owner - Senior

Company

Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

When you join the Federal Reserve—the nation's central bank—you’ll play a key role, collaborating with leading tech professionals to strengthen and protect our economic, financial and payments systems. We invest in contemporary and emerging technology each year to support the Federal Reserve and our economy, and we’re building a dynamic and diverse team for our future.

Bring your passion and expertise, and we’ll provide the opportunities that will challenge you and propel your growth—along with a wide range of benefits and perks that support your health, wealth, and life. In addition to competitive compensation, we offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes tuition assistance, generous paid time off, top-notch health care benefits, child and family care leave, professional development opportunities, a 401(k) match, pension, and more. All brought together in a flexible work environment where you can truly find balance.

About the Opportunity

The Cloud Solutions & Services (CSS) division is seeking a Product Owner who is passionate about managing the development and evolution of an Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) platform. This specific role will help drive increased awareness & adoption of a National IT IaC library and help bring new capabilities and offerings to this service as business and customer needs arise. A strong understanding of IaC tools & methodologies like Terraform, CloudFormation or Ansible in addition to Generative AI, and UX are critical skills for this position.   This position is an individual contributor role working with a Product Manager and the larger Comprehensive Automated Solutions (CAS) team.

The Product Owner is a member of the team responsible for defining and prioritizing a team’s backlog while ensuring translation of the Product Manager’s vision and outcomes into stories. The Product Owner has a significant role in quality and directs members of the team in completing the worked defined in the sprint. Works closely with business stakeholders, product management, and technical teams to understand, analyze, refine, prioritize, and communicate needs to ensure full understanding of product scope, objectives, and requirements. Develops and adapts the product vision and is empowered to “accept” completed stories.

What You Will Do:

The candidate in this role will work with senior leadership, product management, and engineers to ensure that new components, patterns and capabilities are available in the IaC library for Federal Reserve users to consume in the most convenient ways possible. In addition, close alignment and partnership with our Hosting Enablement Agile Release Train, System Innovation Office and customers is required to facilitate the alignment of requirements externally with work we are doing internally to mature and scale the IaC library.

• Articulates the vision to delivery team, outlining and prioritizing work based on business value.
• Coordinates implementation of products and service solutions and enhancements
• Prioritizes product backlog based on overall strategy and business objectives and works with the Scrum Master to drive sprint and release plans.
• Builds and maintains strong relationships with stakeholders by assessing, evaluating, and fully understanding the business and product needs and requirements.
• Work with vendors to ensure platform availability and discuss new offerings/capabilities.
• Primary liaison between stakeholders and teams to ensure full understanding of product scope, objectives, requirements, and dependencies.
• Key participant in retrospectives to continually improve team processes. 
• Advocate for, and act as an evangelist for experimentation and learning using the IaC library across the FRB system. 

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in management, Computer Science, Information Systems, or relevant experience with 6+ years of relevant work experience.
• At least 3 years of Product Management experience
• Strong oral and written communication skills to work with leadership, product teams, and customers.
• Highly organized and detail-oriented, with excellent, demonstrated product management skills, outcome and goal oriented.
• Ability to keep up to date with trends in emerging product, services, and technology.
• The ability to travel once per quarter.

Discover the Reason Why So Many People Love It Here!

When you join the Richmond Fed, not only will you find a challenging and purposeful career, you’ll also have access to a wide range of benefits and perks that support your health and wealth, including:

• Great medical benefits
• Pension and 401(k) with employer match