Hybrid - 4 days onsite / 5th day remote. Candidates can pick their remote day.Primary Location - Austin, TX / Secondary Work Location - Westlake, TX The individual in this Product Owner role will collaborate with key business & IT stakeholders and partners in defining scope, interpreting requirements and priorities for the modernization and transformation of these systems. The role will require a mix of business and technical knowledge in acting as a liaison/partner to maintain business and IT alignment. The ideal candidate should possess a good understanding of the banking industry, experience with the Agile framework and an integrated view for their products. What you’ll do:? • Serve as the primary contact between our business and IT partners to ensure that business requirements are well documented and technical solutions transformed to meet business strategies • Conduct requirement-elicitation meetings with users, developers, system design architects, system integrators and vendors; understanding the context of critical stakeholder needs, pain points and business impact • Partner with cross-functional business and technology teams to create process models, user epics/stories and/or initial use case survey/use cases • Understand both business and technical dependencies between business areas and within systems that support or may be impacted by middle office functionality; upstream as well as downstream? • Perform planning and scoping for several inter-related initiatives to help senior-level business stakeholders make informed decisions about which initiatives to tackle and how • Elicit, document and manage business requirements • Facilitate and drive issues resolution and retrospectives between stakeholders • Develop expert ‘As Is’ knowledge of platform systems and help define ‘To Be’ system solutions and flows • Handle complex, high-profile projects (across multiple domains, systems and stakeholders) • Adapt to changing priorities and managing of multiple tasks • Support business implementation process for new and/or enhanced system features • Support biweekly recurring production evening release activities What you have:? • Strategic mindset to help drive product management decisions, governance, and long-term vision • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills - ability to quickly analyze data to identify key insights and apply them to the business; quantitative and qualitative analysis ? • Confidence in presenting both strategic and tactical vision to the team and management for both big-picture planning and day-to-day management of project goal • Ability to align and unify ALL stakeholders to a shared vision and a common focus; including senior leaders • Excellent?communication, interpersonal, organizational and negotiation?skills • Product and project management skills; business judgment, including ability to balance resources, evaluate and address risks, and concisely articulate where trade-off decisions are to be made • Strong orientation to clients, including ability to understand needs and apply this knowledge to product enhancements, online user experience, and communication content (internal and external) • Ability to analyze and communicate technology recommendations to business stakeholders • 3-to- 5 years’ experience managing requirements for multiple large, complex and cross functional projects.? Emphasis on systems, technologies, business process redesign, and knowledge of technical environments, preferred • 5 years’ experience in software development methodology (Agile Framework), preferred • Proven ability to write business requirements, including user stories, use case development and workflow documentation • High attention to detail and the ability to see things through from concept to implementation • Securities Industry/Operational background preferred; a focus on cash management solutions • Prior working knowledge of JIRA or any related Scrum tools preferred • Competence in Microsoft Office tools including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Visio • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent business experience You demonstrate these leadership profile behaviors:? • Purpose Driven:? Have a customer-centric (external & internal) thought process when analyzing and evaluating enhancements; maintain alignment with “Through Clients’ Eyes” philosophy. • Relationship Oriented: Build trusted and long lasting partnerships with colleagues around the firm and across multiple levels of the organization.? This is critical to communicating and attaining a shared vision and a common focus. • Collaborative:? Capitalize on the diverse experience and expertise of colleagues and build commitment around vision and priorities; collaboration is a fundamental aspect of Agile development. • Challenger:? Propose innovative business solutions that would potentially benefit our customers; create increased efficiencies, greater governance and scalability for future growth. • Courageous:? Demonstrate self-confidence in your abilities and be willing to speak up to the right person or group at the right time when he/she disagrees with a decision or strategy. Approach challenging tasks with a “can-do” attitude. • Overcomes Barriers:? As a team member, possess the ability and desire to work cooperatively with others on a team; as a team leader, interest, skill, and success in getting groups to learn to work together cooperatively.? This role requires the individual to work cross-functionally and across the enterprise.? The ability to influence our partners to work with a cooperative spirit is important to the role.

Contacts:
Hiring manager: A061330
MSP contact: Karla Hinz - Karla.Hinz@kellyocg.com 
 
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws.This position's pay range is $7.25/hr - $80.00/hr.