Technical Product Owner - Agile

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RGA is a purpose-driven organization working to solve today’s challenges through innovation and collaboration. A Fortune 500 Company and listed among its World’s Most Admired Companies, we’re the only global reinsurance company to focus primarily on life- and health-related solutions. Join our multinational team of intelligent, motivated, and collaborative people, and help us make financial protection accessible to all.

A Brief Overview

This role consists of strategic product planning, managing the product backlog, being the voice of the customer to the technology teams, business solution design, and project oversight responsibilities for a functional technical product and/or service. You will help business product managers define their product vision and roadmap by leveraging your in-depth industry knowledge, interpretation of business challenges, understanding of key stakeholder needs, and deep technology expertise. You will fulfill this vision by leading and directing the business solution design practice for new product features and capabilities.

What you will do

• Collaborate with the Global Technology team and business product managers to define product-level vision in concert with a technology roadmap leveraging portfolio capabilities, frameworks, and processes.
• Partner with the business leads, product owners, partners and IT leadership and external clients and stakeholders to lead the design of new product and/or solution features, starting with defining the business need and translating into features and stories for delivery teams, while ensuring the overall approach has valid cost-benefit drivers, and aligns with the business objectives.
• In partnership with the Business Product Manager, maintains product roadmaps.
• Communicate complex concepts through storyboards, prototypes and other interactive design techniques and recommend user-centric solutions; including presenting, pitching, and convincing others to accept alternative approaches to the problem/solution paradigm.
• Leverage the RGA Product Framework and best practices for developing user/business centric solution recommendations and proposals.
• Serve as a Technical Liaison to ensure accurate interpretation of these needs throughout the development lifecycle.
• Create and maintain product backlog; collaborating with business product manager on prioritization and deliver.
• Lead the effort to develop cross-divisional/line of business /geography solution strategy plans for functional product: Identify and understand stakeholder needs; Assess existing systems support for the business needs; Work with the appropriate business and IT associates to find the best solutions (across technology and process) and with the functional leads to ensure business processes make the most efficient and effective use of the technology deployed; Develop business objectives, delivery best practices and solution goals; Work with the functional leads to specify in detail how the service will be delivered, roles and responsibilities, effort, and how to measure success of the service and its contribution to supporting the business as part of translating the Business Architecture into an implementation roadmap; and, Document features and users stories as needed to support the development teams and process.
• Work seamlessly across regions and functions, forming, evolving, and disbanding virtual teams; including establishment of governance structures as appropriate to achieve the objectives.
• Fosters a positive and engaged work environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Arts/Sciences (BA/BS) in IT or equivalent experience required
• 5+ Years business and technical experience required and
• Previous experience supporting business teams from an IT perspective required and
• Experience in system design and strong understanding of enterprise architecture principles and practices required
• Ability to solve unique and complex problems that have a potentially broad impact on the business. Must be a proven, innovative thinker - Advanced Proficiency required
• Facilitation skills with the ability to obtain buy-in from business stakeholders on deliverables - Expert Proficiency required
• Remote collaboration skills - Advanced Proficiency required
• Ability to challenge the status quo in a facilitative and collaborative way - Advanced Proficiency required
• Competent in Business Domain Analysis, Business Architecture Development and Business Process Modeling - Intermediate Proficiency required
• Persuasion skills when working with internal partners and external providers to resolve issues/problems - Advanced Proficiency required
• Project management skills.