Senior Product Owner

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

This role is responsible for driving the delivery of technology initiative of revamping Identity and Access Management (IAM) processes by defining and prioritizing deliverables in the product and articulating this to both business stakeholders and technology development teams. This role will also be responsible for performing research to drive business decisions, diagnose problems and recommend action plans to remediate issues.

The selected candidate will be responsible for defining and directing product design and delivery to align with end user needs/wants with the new IAM application, with guidance from Product Manager(s). More specifically, this role is responsible for maximizing business value for IAM Modernization.

What You Will Do:

• Work with Product Manager in defining the vision and roadmap for the product
• Work with Product Manager in a scaled Agile model, to ensure there is alignment
• Collaborate with customers and stakeholders to understand their needs and problems
• Communicate the product vision and roadmap to stakeholders and team
• Define and prioritize stories in the team product backlog
• Assist the Product manager in collaborating with the ART/Program feature backlog
• Create and prioritize stories in the product/team backlog, learning to collaborate with cross-functional teams
• Facilitate team planning ceremonies for backlog/prioritized work.
• Collaborate with Scrum Master to improve flow and enable team to deliver effectively

Skills:

• Participating in agile ceremonies
• Creating, preparing, prioritizing, maintaining, and accepting user stories
• Translating product managers’ strategies to tasks for development
• Supporting the team in delivering value
• Prioritizing sprint activities
• Learning the environment and customers’ needs
• Connecting with customers and partners to ensure user stories add business value
• Validating deliverables meet acceptance criteria
• Ability to communicate the vision
• Serving as a liaison between product stakeholders and development teams
• Staying accessible to development team to answer questions
• Evaluating customer and team feedback after each iteration
• Coaching and mentoring junior product owners
• Actively participating in PO Community of Practice

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience with 6 to 9+ years of relevant work experience.
• Ability to identify, escalate and communicate issues and progress to management in an effective and succinct manner
• Working knowledge of Agile development methodologies as well as product management and/or product owner experience.
• SAFE Agile Product Owner Product Manager Certification POPM (or equivalent CSPO / PSPO)

• A minimum of five years of experience in a role on agile team.
• A minimum of three years of experience as a Product Owner.
• Experienced in leading customer engagement, with proven background in being a customer advocate
• Lean-Agile Leadership Mindset and able to coach product/agile principles.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple and significantly complex projects and assignments in a production environment with a high level of autonomy and accountability for results
• High organizational agility and ability of representing the product development team in communication with the senior leadership.
• Working experience with agile software development tools such as Jira, Rally, and/or etc. 

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