Agile Product Owner - BSA/AML

Regions Financial Corporation; Hoover (AL); On-site; USD 101,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Regions Financial Corporation in Hoover, Alabama, is seeking an Agile Product Owner to represent business stakeholders and translate needs for IT delivery teams. You will work with sponsors to document processes, validate strategy and oversee project plans while maintaining a prioritized backlog and guiding release readiness.

The role is onsite, requires five years of relevant experience, and Regions will not sponsor work visas.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS, business or related field with five years in process improvement or business analysis.
• Experience with Agile and Waterfall delivery methods.
• Strong analytical, communication and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Partner with sponsors and IT to document and improve business processes.
• Validate strategy and understand customer needs.
• Assist with project plans including schedule, scope and resources.
• Work independently on small to medium efforts or with seniors on larger projects.
• Identify, assess, track, and mitigate issues and risks.
• Participate in validation and testing of features before end-user acceptance.
• Provide just-in-time story elaboration to teams for backlog items.
• Maintain a prioritized backlog and guide the execution team.
• Review stakeholder feedback and new requirements and ensure acceptance criteria are met.
• Track benefits and adoption with process owners.

Skills

Prioritize tasks

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Process engineering

Agile

Waterfall

Data analytics

Customer service

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business or related field

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Microsoft Teams

SharePoint

Microsoft 365 Suite

Job description

Thank you for your interest in a career at Regions. At Regions, we believe associates deserve more than just a job. We believe in offering performance-driven individuals a place where they can build a career --- a place to expect more opportunities. If you are focused on results, dedicated to quality, strength and integrity, and possess the drive to succeed, then we are your employer of choice.

At Regions, the Agile Product Owner represents business stakeholders to elicit, understand, analyze, document, refine and communicate business needs, so that business and/or technical delivery teams can build effective solutions.

Primary Responsibilities

• Partners with sponsors, stakeholders, and Information Technologyto facilitate, define and document relevant business processes, gaining an understanding of the needs, measures, and risksand controls for the improvement area
• Works with management and other stakeholders to understand and validate business strategy and vision and customer needs
• Assists with project level plans related to schedule, scope and resources
• Works independently on small to medium complexity efforts, or in support of a Senior or Lead on larger efforts
• Identifies, assesses, tracks and mitigates issues and risks at multiple levels.
• Participates in validation and testing of features prior to end user acceptance
• Provides just-in-time story elaboration to designers, business analysts, developers, testers and others to develop, execute and release in alignment with program and/or product roadmaps
• Serves as the content authority on an Agile team by maintaining a prioritized backlog of stories and providing continual business guidance for the execution team
• Reviews, and when appropriate, accepts and prioritizes feedback and new requirements from stakeholders
• Reviews and accepts or declines output of development to ensure specified acceptance criteria have been completed
• Works with the business process owners to manage and track benefits, adoption and risks to operations

This position is exempt from timekeeping requirements under the Fair Labor Standards Act and is not eligible for overtime pay.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degreein Computer Science, Businessor a related field and five(5) years of relevant experience in process improvement, project delivery, business/requirements analysis or business operations/product line

Preferences

• SAFe Practitioner (SP), SAFe Agilist, or SAFe Product Owner/Manager certification

Skills and Competencies

• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks under pressure
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent listening, interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills
• Experience in Process Engineering methodologies and Change Management practices
• Familiarity or working knowledge with multiple technical software delivery methodologies (i.e., Agile, Waterfall)
• Proven ability to utilize data and analytics to formulate recommendations, solve business problems, and drive business improvements
• Strong customer service orientation

Additional job detail and preferred experience for this specific opportunity

• Ability to operate in a fast-paced environment and strong organization and communication skills
• Lead intake and prioritization of development work aligned to business/technology goals
• Knowledge of OFAC, BSA/AML, sanctions compliance, and financial crimes risk management
• Knowledge of sanctions list management, fuzzy matching algorithms and screening tuning
• Experience with large-scale screening platform transformations or cloud modernization initiatives
• Experience with sanctions screening platforms
• Experience JIRA
• Experience with Confluence
• Experience with Microsoft Teams
• Experience with SharePoint
• Experience with Microsoft 365 Suite

Regions will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position. Applicants for this position must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

This position is intended to be onsite, now or in the near future. Associates will have regular work hours, including full days in the office three or more days a week. The manager will set the work schedule for this position, including in-office expectations. Regions will not provide relocation assistance for this position, and relocation would be at your expense. This position must bewithin a reasonable driving distance to Birmingham, AL, Atlanta, GA or Charlotte, NC.

Compensation Details

Pay ranges are job specific and are provided as a point-of-market reference for compensation decisions. Other factors which directly impact pay for individual associates include: experience, skills, knowledge, contribution, job location and, most importantly, performance in the job role. As these factors vary by individuals, pay will also vary among individual associates within the same job.

The target information listed below is based on the Metropolitan Statistical Area Market Range for where the position is located and level of the position.

Job Range Target:

• Minimum: $100,634.05 USD
• 50th Percentile: $128,130.00 USD

Incentive Pay Plans: This job may participate in an annual discretionary bonus plan.

Location:

Hoover, Alabama

Equal Opportunity Employer/including Disabled/Veterans

Job applications at Regions are accepted electronically through our career site for a minimum of five business days from the date of posting. Job postings for higher-volume positions may remain active for longer than the minimum period due to business need and may be closed at any time thereafter at the discretion of the company.